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Getting an Ole and Working it

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MEZQUITA: Thoughts on Performing Again

La China's Point of View March 8, 2009 I sit at my computer console at 12:37am on a Sunday night thinking soulfully of the week's events leading up to my performance in Pena Buleria's "Mezquita" at the Kay Meek Theatre in West Vancouver…
El Jaleo 2008
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Thoughts on AMFDA and 2008

Year in Review by Kasandra La China December 30, 2008 On Our Children Now that I'm a mom myself, my views on children have changed forever.  As a person who has always cooed and ooed when I saw a cool dog walking down the street (while…
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This Thing We Call Bulerias

September 15, 2008 6:00-7:30pm Bulerias por Fiesta Class Observations From The Bench Sitting here on a bench, I can count at least 24 people without moving my head: the largest Bulerías class at Al Mozaico Flamenco Dance Academy in recent…
Jassmone, June 2008
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Flamenco Life after Baby

Thoughts about the last couple of months By Kasandra “La China” July 22, 2008 4:48am At Home Everybody is sleeping except me... What can I say?  My blog productivity is way down because I don't know where my spare time has gone. …
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Pregnancy & Flamenco – Part 4

Thoughts about the third trimester - Months #7 to #8 Still dancing, still teaching! By Kasandra “La China” April 9, 2008 Well, I'm at home in Vancouver, BC again and have been teaching my regular 9 classes a week.  Usually I teach…
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How Flamenco Saved This Doctor’s Life

By Susan Biali, MD April 6, 2008 In my teaching career I have met and taught hundreds, maybe thousands of students.  Susan Biali is one of the students that has made an impression on me over the years.   She is multi-talented person with…
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Best things about Jerez de la Frontera

Festival de Jerez 2008 By Kasandra “La China” March 8, 2008 Jerez de la Frontera is the birthplace of flamenco.  Geographically it is in Andalucia, the South of Spain, approximately an hour from Seville by car and 40 minutes…
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Pregnancy & Flamenco – Part 3

Thoughts about Months #6 to #7 Getting bigger, still dancing! Written by Kasandra from Jerez de la Frontera, Spain March 6, 2008 Last summer, I signed up for a couple of dance workshops at the Festival de Jerez.  The Festival de Jerez…