Dance in Film · 1983
Flamenco at 5:15 (1983)
Senior ballet students trade lifted restraint for grounded flamenco attack as Susana Robledo builds percussive footwork, hand rotations, palmas, and expressive force through seguiriya and bulería.
Flamenco at 5:15 is a 1983 dance film centred on Flamenco. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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Where to watch: Free on the National Film Board of Canada’s official YouTube channel and NFB.ca; also on Tubi (verified 2026-08-11).
The dance sequences in Flamenco at 5:15
5 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
Bulería: the festive palo
BuleríasDanced by Susana Robledo; senior students of the National Ballet School of Canada · Choreography Susana Robledo
The class brightening as disciplined rhythm turns openly festive.
Bulería releases the class into quicker exchanges without relaxing the compás. The dancers begin to risk personality inside the rhythm, replacing careful imitation with flashes of swagger and communal play.
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Palmas sordas and palmas claras
Danced by Antonio Robledo; senior students of the National Ballet School of Canada
Hands around the studio striking different colors of sound into one shared pulse.
Antonio turns accompaniment into embodied instruction, connecting muted and bright claps to compás and to his image of Romani blacksmiths at work. The sequence shows rhythm being learned socially before it is displayed theatrically.
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Percussive footwork lesson
ZapateadoDanced by Senior students of the National Ballet School of Canada · Choreography Susana Robledo
A line of ballet dancers discovering that precision can thunder through the heels.
Susana redirects ballet-trained legs toward grounded rhythmic attack, making the floor an instrument rather than a surface to escape. Repetition turns clean academic placement into weight, accent, and audible intention.
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Seguiriya: the serious palo
SeguiriyaDanced by Susana Robledo; senior students of the National Ballet School of Canada · Choreography Susana Robledo
The room tightening around the slow force of the seguiriya.
The grave compás asks the students to sustain tension instead of decorating steps. Susana’s coaching makes seriousness physical through held carriage, deliberate accents, and the friction between ballet polish and flamenco weight.
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The emotional avalanche: final class integration
Danced by Susana Robledo; senior students of the National Ballet School of Canada · Choreography Susana Robledo
Susana’s force traveling through the whole room until the class moves as a flamenco ensemble.
Technique finally reads as conviction: the students absorb Susana’s energy without erasing their own ballet training. The camera lets collective rhythm and individual faces show the instant disciplined imitation becomes felt performance.
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