Dance in Film · 1992
Sevillanas (1992)
Carlos Saura stages ten contrasting dance passages—corraleras, boleras, classical, flamenco, rociera, gitana and contemporary—so dancers can compare how one social form changes across lineage, setting and performer.
Sevillanas is a 1992 dance feature film centred on Regional Folk Traditions. 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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The dance sequences in Sevillanas
10 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
De Lebrija: “La liebre”
SevillanasDanced by Elders of Lebrija; Las Corraleras de Lebrija
A brass mortar striking time as elders gather and dance around the table.
Saura lets community rhythm lead: voice, domestic percussion and unvarnished steps emerge around a long rustic table. The ensemble’s mixed ages make transmission visible rather than treating folklore as museum display.
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Finale: sevillanas corraleras
SevillanasDanced by Heterogeneous dance ensemble
Rocío Jurado in white above a floor crowded with dancers of many ages.
Rocío Jurado’s medley restores sevillanas to a gathering of bodies and voices across ages. The ensemble’s loose social energy expands the frame into a shared finale after the film’s more controlled solo and paired studies.
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Sevillanas actuales: “Fue en Sevilla”
SevillanasDanced by Merche Esmeralda; Carlos Vilán · Choreography Matilde Coral
A continuous circular camera move orbiting the duet and Salmarina.
Esmeralda and Vilán build a concentric duet while Saura circles them in one unbroken travelling shot. Camera and choreography share the same orbit, making musical phrasing legible without cutting away.
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Sevillanas bíblicas: “La vio el Rey David”
SevillanasDanced by Grupo de baile Escuela Bolera · Choreography Matilde Coral
Ten dancers in sober flamenco dress moving in five ritualized pairs.
Five pairs give Paco Toronjo’s biblical verses a measured, almost ritual structure. Saura keeps singers and dancers in separate frames, asking rhythm and moral narrative to bind the sequence across the cut.
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Sevillanas boleras
SevillanasDanced by Grupo de baile Escuela Bolera
Pairs of dancers and castanets locked into rigorously symmetrical frames.
Popular steps are tightened into academic lines, paired symmetry and castanet articulation. Preparation in the rehearsal room makes discipline part of the choreography, while rhythmic cutting clarifies the dancers’ formal geometry.
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Sevillanas clásicas
SevillanasDanced by Rafael el Negro; Matilde Coral; Rocío Coral
Matilde Coral dancing beside her husband and daughter in an intimate salon-like frame.
Three dancers share a small, softly lit space beside Manuel Pareja Obregón at the piano. Relaxed exchanges turn exact footwork and carriage into a portrait of family lineage and knowledge passed across generations.
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Sevillanas flamencas
SevillanasDanced by Merche Esmeralda
Esmeralda’s red-and-black figure repeated across bright studio mirrors.
Merche Esmeralda stretches the social form into a vigorous solo without losing its underlying pulse. Mirrors multiply her black-and-red silhouette and Manolo Sanlúcar’s guitarists, making refinement and spontaneity coexist.
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Sevillanas gitanas
SevillanasDanced by Manuela Carrasco
Carrasco’s mantón whipping through turns as peinetas and earrings fly loose.
Carrasco drives the sevillanas structure toward flamenco extremity, answering Camarón’s grain and the guitars of Tomatito and Joaquín Amador. Her mantle, forceful turns and percussive attack make the stage seem physically unstable.
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Sevillanas rocieras de pito y tamboril
SevillanasDanced by Lola Flores · Choreography Lola Flores (improvised in performance)
Lola Flores alone before a glowing panel, improvising from a single chair.
Lola Flores begins seated, then invents the dance in the moment against pipe and drum. With one chair and a luminous panel, every turn, hand gesture and glance reads as choice rather than decoration.
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Sevillanas rocieras with Los Romeros de la Puebla
SevillanasDanced by Heterogeneous dance ensemble · Choreography Matilde Coral
Dancing silhouettes surging through red and black light like a nighttime procession.
A mixed ensemble turns the studio into a nocturnal pilgrimage, answering Los Romeros de la Puebla with collective turns and exclamations. Red-black light and moving silhouettes preserve the communal lift of a romería.
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