If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Looking for a special event for Valentine’s Day with your love? Check out Flamenco y Paella Valentine’s Day Edition on Sunday, February 13th at 5 pm. Watch the flamenco dance show presented by La Candela Flamenco Company while waiting or …
While the Festival de Jerez 2015 is starting this weekend in Spain, I’m switching gears from flamenco to salsa dancing, my other favorite dance style! Salsa dance styles There are different styles of salsa, from ballroom to club style, East Coast to West Coast (USA), salsa from Cuba, Colombia or Puerto Rico, doesn’t matter if …
Currently ongoing in Spain is the Festival de Jerez 2014. Here’s the link to a video of Belén Maya’s guests and Manuel Liñan is one of them. Los invitados | Belén Maya | Festival de Jerez 2014 from Festival de Jerez Televisión on Vimeo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Major sadness hit the global flamenco community, …
This Saturday, March 9th at 8 pm, Manuel Liñán and his company will perform a world-class flamenco show at the Rialto Center for the Arts in Downtown Atlanta. There will be a pre-show lecture about flamenco in the lobby at 6:30 pm. While in Atlanta, company members will teach a multi-discipline workshop for students of guitar, dance, …
In trying to catch up to the New Year, here’s another review of flamenco shows in Atlanta. The Juan Siddi Flamenco Theatre Company performed on Sunday January 13th at the Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech University. The company was represented by a singer, a guitarist and four female dancers, led by Juan …
All my plans to post information about the show before it actually happened somehow evaporated and now, two months later and well into the New Year, I’m struggling with the decision to write a review or not. Carmen is my favorite opera and it started with the record my mom used to play on Sunday mornings. Before I ever …
With an average of two or three professional flamenco dance performances a year, imagine my excitement when I found out that there will be more shows coming! I always wondered why our local talent wasn’t getting on stage more often, and I’m talking theatre stage, because there is no lack of talent. And even though …
Just came back from my hair stylist and I felt so many (bad) emotions I didn’t know which one had the highest priority! When she was done, I thought: oh crap! This doesn’t look like the picture I showed her… AT ALL!!! What do I do now? Nothing of course. Can’t pick up the locks …
Growing up in a small country in the Caribbean I was exposed to all the music of the region, be it Latin or African based. From merengue to mambo, soca to zouk, soul to big band, you name it, I’ve heard and attempted to dance it! When I hear drumbeats, I can’t help but move. …
