From October 2018 till October 2019, I videotaped myself at 4 different points to track my transformation. Watch what happens. This is a weight loss story that will surprise you.
To throw myself a memorable birthday party I went about turning my living room into a disco.
To dance is to tell a story without words. To write is to make words dance on a page. To be a dancing writer is to be cursed by the impossible.
I went through the list of all poems about loneliness that I know off until I found one I wanted to turn into a song and dance.
Me at the Vancouver Story Slam, an event that takes place once a month at the cottage bistro. Here is an experiment is combining dance with storytelling. Don’t know if I found the winning combination, but I will keep searching. The story is inspired by Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Kafka’s story […]
The pure artist is a rare breed. If you are very very lucky you will get to meet one of those who create with purity of intention. Destiny has showered me with a deluge of good fortune, for I know, in person, several of these unique individuals. They are not […]
You can read a longer written down version of the story here. This is my second foray into combining dance with storytelling. The last video focused on hand movements. This one is all about the feet. It was fun thinking up fun locations to film the walking sequences in. Which […]
My dance teacher decided to create a flamenco choreography to a pop song. After much deliberation she chose Prince Kiss.
I signed up to participate in the Vancouver Story Slam on March 8th. I took a story from my novel Graffiti Hack and worked on it to shorten it so that it would fit in the 5 minute time limit. My novel is a story that has several stories within […]
A few saw the above performance and commented that they felt I was telling a story. Glad my state of narration bleeds though. Some stories are too private. Dance is perfect for those paths where words don’t dare tread. A sentiment can be made of charmeuse wings of a butterfly. […]
My childhood and youth has been blessed with brilliant role models. Starting with my father, managers that I was lucky to work with at the beginning of my career and political activist whose intellectual sharpness influenced my thinking. Each one of these men demonstrated to me patterns of behavior that […]
“Hard times require furious dancing” so wrote Alice Walker. But, what happens when the hard times are over and furious dancing remains.
Flamenco in English is a long held dream that I had. Finally I made my first attempt at it.
Flash Mob on August 3rd 2013 at Trout Lake Framer’s Market, Vancouver, BC, Canada. We danced sevillanas and then danced more sevillanas and then finished with some sevillanas. It was so much fun to watch people’s reaction to the surprise. It was also fun dancing in the street – a […]
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There is a vicious voice inside my head, that says the most horrid things. Most of the time, its triads are aimed at me. I call her my inner critic.
There seems to be a confusion between the two words: flamingo flamenco. Allow me to illustrate the difference.
Despite my strength I find myself in a fragile state when asking “How to get over a breakup?”
A chance to win free tickets to an amazing show.
A story of flamenco and religion. The story starts on diner in downtown vancouver. As ihath plunges down the rabbit hole, she discovers a fantastical world of colorful dresses, garish earings and stomping feet. Alas, can she find a magic potion which will allow her to join the garden of splendor?
I felt very honored when I discovered that my photo is featured of the student flamenco show poster.
