On Sunday, we finally had a day off. Woohoo! So what do we do on a day off? Sleep in, do laundry--hooray, no more stinky rehearsal clothes!, pack the company suitcases, pack our own suitcases, run errands, and before we [...]
Photo from Mujeres during the fall 2013 tour. In Spain, I worked on my technique, my arms, clarity in my footwork; my compás greatly improved; my knowledge and understanding of the cante greatly improved. In NYC I go to the studio [...]
Today we began rehearsing at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center. Flamenco Vivo is lucky to be one of the resident companies here. It's a beautiful campus complete with a performance space and several dance studios along with dormitories for the company.A [...]
Students practicing their footwork in class Over the last two months I have made an early morning (very early) commute a couple days a week into the heart of Brooklyn to be an assistant teaching artist for a Flamenco [...]
A couple of years ago when I decided to fill in my job on Facebook and Linkedin, I decided to refer to everything I do as "freelance," and hence labeled myself a Freelance Flamenco Dancer. At the time, I had [...]
Thinking back on this year, it feels like there must have been at least a few years packed into the last 365 days. I could measure the year by the number of miles I flew on airplanes, the number of [...]
This post is a little window in to some of the things I've been thinking about since being in NYC for a month now: New York is not an easy city. For oh so many reasons. Being an artist in [...]
Why is it that stereotypes sell? I'm writing specifically about flamenco, but my guess is this applies to many other genres and fields...Why are we so attracted to the superficial elements instead of digging deep to understand flamenco? The way [...]
