Shows

I Almost Didn’t Go

I left almost immediately after the show ended last night. And people said,   ¿Te vas Laura, Ya?  “You’re leaving, now?” Sí, me voy. Even though the show just ended.  I wasn’t even waiting to see if something exciting happened next.  I wasn’t even staying to socialize some more.  I was going home as early [...]

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A Show in Jerez on a Saturday Night

La Gitanería is having these Saturday night flamenco cante shows.  There was one last night.  It started at 10:30.  Only, it didn’t actually begin until 11:30, maybe even a bit later than that.  We didn’t even start walking there until after 11. As we came in we walked by Diego del Morao.  He was not [...]

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Things to Remember Before a Performance

It’s almost time to perform, and I’m worrying.  I’ve felt this way before… But I guess I needn’t worry so much.  At least I don’t have to get up in front of the whole audience to talk and start crying instead. Anyway, so I decided to take myself for a walk to the farmer’s market to [...]

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Viernes con una Letra | sí, tangos

Again, tangos. La virgen de Los Remedios tiene su cara morena y el niño que está en sus brazos es más blanco que la azucena. Popular Our Lady of Los Remedios has a dark face and the child in her arms is whiter than a lily Popular On Sunday José sang this very letra, and [...]

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A Show That Isn’t a Show

As you know, one of my most favorite things when taking a workshop is the energy it provides.  It is what led me to start this business. But the watching is wonderful too. Because sure, as students we dance, (A LOT, I know, that’s what we’re there to do) but we are given little private performances [...]

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Congelada

I wrote this one night last week, Thursday or Friday I believe.  One night when I started freaking out and wanting to run away because we were having another show.  I decided to wait until the the next day to publish it.  The next day came and I didn’t.  So, I’m posting it now, after [...]

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Dancing with a Star

Ricardo is the star.  I am still just me. Ok, so I realized something this morning. This might be my Dancing with the Stars… I remember seeing that show and thinking how lucky those celebrities are to get to have their own personal, amazingly talented dance coach for an intensive period.  There was some envy [...]

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Is this REALLY going to happen?

Cathy, who lives on the opposite coast, sent me a message. And I wanted to share it with you.  It serves as a little reminder of HOW LUCKY WE ARE   ¡Que suerte tenemos!   Those of us who are able to be in Portland to take advantage of Ricardo. Ole and yay yay yay because [...]

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What Three Dancers Had to Say

A couple of weeks ago we had a performance.  Abby, Julie, and Kikuyo, three members of the PFE Performance Group took part and danced fabulously, absolutely fabulously.  I was so happy to be on stage with them, dancing together, supporting one another.  I loved seeing how they each embraced their performance selves because they really [...]

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No Soy Bailarina

So, I was taking a walk today, yes, when perhaps I should have been practicing and preparing for Saturday’s show, especially as I’ve been focusing way too much all month on the idea that I haven’t had enough time to dedicate to it, what with the studio floor crisis and all of these things that [...]

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