This past Tuesday, I performed at T de Triana, a restaurant on the famous Calle Betis in Triana. It's a wonderful space where young dancers have the opportunity to perform...My friend Julie caught the beginning of my solo on [...]
Last week in class, I was extremely frustrated. I just wasn’t understanding the steps; for some reason the sounds, and even the mechanics jus weren’t sticking in my body or my ears or my brain. I think I was just [...]
Photo from "Por casualidad" in the Alameda de Hércules on November 1. Photo from Mes de Danza. I saw Chloé Brulé and Marco Vargas perform yesterday outside in a Plaza in the center of Sevilla as part of Dance [...]
Cucarachas!....Ufffy!We had a visitor this evening in our apartment. I walked into the kitchen and lo and behold there was a very large thing moving some very, very, very long antennae....possibly the biggest antennae I've EVER seen...."Um, Jani?!....there's a cockroach...""Is [...]
"El mar me enseñó a bailar" --Carmen Amaya (one of the best flamenco dancers ever and foundational figures in flamenco) said, " The sea taught me to dance." My guess would be that in some way [...]
Today I went to the Contemporary Art Museum in Sevilla. It's pretty small and there's nothing terribly famous, but I really like a lot of the works that are on display. Also, since the museum wasn't overwhelming, I was able to [...]
Today I went hiking with my friend Julie (a fellow Fulbrighter who is studying frogs in Doña Ana National Park, just outside Sevilla, check out her blog here: http://sevilla2013.wordpress.com/ ) and some of her friends from the lab she works [...]
Today in the studio I was reflecting on how dancer’s gradually create their own warm ups, their own series of technique exercise, their own ways to care for their body, and at the end of the day, their own style [...]
This past weekend, I visited the beautiful beach town of Cádiz. It's about an hour and a half away from Sevilla by bus. Cádiz is nearly completely surrounded by water, and was once a major port city on the Atlantic [...]
In Rosario’s workshop that I took last week, I had a bit of a revelation about the rhythm in flamenco called martinete. This palo (rhythm) is one of my favorites, although not the easiest to understand as far as the [...]
