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 [...]
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, [...]
