B4347 - Flamenco: find your rhythm (beginners)

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Start Date: 14/01/2027      End Date: 18/03/2027        Start Time: 18:00      End Time: 19:30        Hours per Week: 1.50      No of Weeks: 9
Fees:      £90.00 (tuition)     £172.00 (overseas)     £28.00 (concessionary)
Tutor: Rowena Ritchie        No of Places: 14
Idea Store Whitechapel

Course Overview

Course Overview
Feel the music, trust your body, and let the rhythm carry you.
This course deepens technique while developing musicality, stamina and confidence. This course welcomes new beginners while offering returning learners progression through longer sequences, increased speed, and more detailed rhythmic awareness.
You’ll expand your vocabulary of footwork, arm movements and turns, and work more closely with live guitar to explore phrasing, tempo changes and rhythmic accents. Classes focus on coordination, strength and expressive clarity, helping learners feel more secure dancing with music and within group sequences.

What will you learn and be able to do?

What will you learn and be able to do?
* Demonstrate a minimum of six footwork techniques, including changes of speed and dynamics
* Name at least two flamenco rhythms and identify when they are being danced in class.
* Maintain rhythmic accuracy while repeating a footwork sequence at slow and faster tempos with live guitar.
* Combine arms, turns and footwork together in a continuous sequence lasting at least 45 seconds.
* Perform a short flamenco routine of 1–1½ minutes, showing increased stamina, coordination and rhythmic confidence.
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Entry requirements

Entry requirements
None, but any movement/dance experience is useful. You should also be reasonably physically fit, although adjustments are made for any particular needs.
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Equipment required

Equipment required
A bottle of water. Appropriate footwear – shoes with a small Cuban heel (no stilettos). Flamenco shoes (women), and flamenco boots (men) are ideal. Comfortable clothing that allows for movement, flared long skirts.
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How will you know you are making progress?

How will you know you are making progress?
You will have an ‘Individual Learning Plan’ where the course learning outcomes are shown and where you can set individual learning goals and monitor your own progress against these.

You will need to evaluate your own progress and manage your time.

Your tutor will give ongoing feedback and will keep you informed of your progress.
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At the beginning of the course an initial assessment takes place to identify your level of experience knowledge or current skills.

The tutor will carry out informal assessments to check your understanding, there is no exam.

You will complete a self-assessment at the beginning, middle and end of the course and you will participate in regular self assessment.

Your tutor will let you know how you are getting on throughout the course, to help you work to your full potential.

At the end of the course you will receive written feedback.
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Progress opportunities - your next steps

Progress opportunities - your next steps
Your tutor can be approached for additional information and advice during the course. You can progress to the Flamenco Improver course and / or other popular dance courses at beginners’ level.
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Other info

Other info
In general, we will not allow late entry to any course after the first two weeks. To maximise your chances of benefiting from the course fully we expect you to attend all scheduled sessions and that you do so punctually and are ready to start learning at the start of the class.
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Extra Support

Extra Support
If you have declared a learning difficulty, disability or support need whilst enrolling and you require support/assistance in class or to complete your course, please discuss your needs with your tutor at the first lesson.

If you intend to take an examination and feel you have an additional learning need or special requirements, you must declare them to your tutor within the first 2 weeks of your course.

If you are studying in an online group, then you can arrange a one-to-one online discussion with your tutor, after the session, or by email.

Where we aim to make reasonable adjustments to support our learners, please note we are unable to provide any type of in class or in person support if your course takes place online.
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