Is it edible? What is it?....it kind of looks like a cactus leaf without the needles....Chirimoya!The chirimoya's insides!It's delicious and ridiculously sweet....and very common in spain! I can't really explain what exactly the flavor is; it kind of tastes like [...]
This past week I definitely had my ups and downs. I started observing classes this week to decide who else I want to take class from along with Andrés Marín. I think I started to over think the whole thing, [...]
Photo from my apartment's terrace. I got a little taste of what Semana Santa will be like when the Divina Pastora Triana was carried through the streets of Triana over the weekend. It was pretty incredible--there is a full orchestra that [...]
I was a little bit disappointed in this show. I had never seen these two dance, and they received an award for most innovative show at the Bienal four years ago. I had seen videos of their performance from [...]
Israel Galván, ‘Solo” at an outdoor stage in the Monasterio de la Cartuja The first few times I saw Galván perfom, I initially began to see his dancing as an exaggeration of flamenco—he takes traditional gestures and postures and literally [...]
I never realized until today that I do not know how to hang laundry on a clothes line. I guess back in the day that was as necessary as knowing how to boil water. Well, now I know I guess, [...]
I love Rosario, and maybe I am biased because I’ve worked with her, but even if I hadn’t, there is so much joy that comes across in her dancing it’s hard not to love [...]
I am going to try to write a little bit about each show I see at the Bienal de Flamenco. Here it goes with the first show I've seen… María Pagés, ‘Utopía’ This woman’s arms will never cease to amaze me. [...]
I arrived in Sevilla Wednesday afternoon! I miraculously did not have too much trouble with the jet lag—that’s either thanks to the Spanish coffee (Ahhhhh! Finally, delicious café con leche!), or that I didn’t sleep whatsoever on the plane, and [...]
As I get ready to leave for Spain in just a few days, I've never felt so giddy and nostalgic at the same time. Half of me wants to sit down and have a good cry for everything I'm leaving [...]
