Flamenco Shoes - Part 1

Hi! I’ve laid out my shoes here so you can take a look and see what a Flamenco shoe actually is. Straight away, turn it over. If it has nails installed in the punta, the tip. If it has a reinforced planta, to protect the ball of your foot. If it has nails installed in the tacon, which is your heel. Then it’s a Flamenco shoe. It can be suede or it can be leather. The characteristics of a Flamenco shoe, they’re very sturdy. We do a lot of pounding around in footwork bootcamp, and footwork. This construction allows us to make all of the sounds and textures associated with being a percussionist as a Flamenco dancer.

If you have a local dance store nearby you might run across this. Which is something that looks like a Flamenco shoe. But if you flip it over it has none of that. You don’t have any nails here, or here, you don’t have a planta. That is not a Flamenco shoe. That is a character shoe, right.

Then you go up in the student model. Something like that for kids might range at $50. Then you have these adult versions coming from Brazil. This one is called SonDanca (https://www.sodanca.com/). Now you have the nails, the planta, and the heels. Now you’re probably getting up into upwards of $100 or $120 there.