I have decided to keep up my flamenco blogging even now that I am in the United States. This blog will follow my adventures in flamenco--wherever they lead me, across the U.S. and hopefully back to Spain in the not [...]
"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.--GoetheDancing at Peña Niño Alfalfa earlier this year. then again, "Everything you can imagine is real." --Pablo PicassoTo say the least this year has been a [...]
"La gran suerte del ser humano es encontrarse con buenos maestros... me inculcó desde el principio lo que es la ética de la danza antes de la estética." --Antonio Gades ("The best luck a human being can have is [...]
As I walked home last night, I had an urge to run my fingers along the walls of the buildings as I meandered through the labyrinth like streets of Sevilla, as if touching the city's walls would permanently instill my [...]
Food starts with the freshest most flavorful ingredients at a neighborhood market. I will miss buying my produce here: Mercado on Calle Feria I will miss the fact that I always go to the same produce stand and the fruit [...]
.....A lot. 6 Euros gets you into any one of the flamenco peñas. It also gets you a plate of paella big enough for two people at my favorite restaurant--La Bodega in Plaza Alfalfa . Yum! :) I forgot to [...]
Say what? I will miss giant oversized mushrooms in the middle of my city :P With a great view of the surroundings. The setas (mushrooms in Spanish), or as they are officially known, Metropol Parasol in the Plaza [...]
I have ten days left in Sevilla. I don't want to leave. This is my dream; living here, dancing here. But my dream is also to mount my own works, which is more feasible right now in the United States. [...]
Here is a link to a post on the Fulbright Spain blog that I wrote for the Cine Migratorio Film Festival in Santander earlier this year:http://elblogdefulbright.es/index.php/2013/06/migration-in-the-world-of-flamenco/
A moment of quiet calmness in my baile por tarantos at Caja Negra last week. I've been in a plateau in my dancing recently. Like language learning or anything else, we often hit a plateau where we grow, but only slowly. [...]
