This foodie fiction is ready to launch into outer space
Dance.
How To Throw A Memorable Birthday Party At Home
To throw myself a memorable birthday party I went about turning my living room into a disco.
How To Fix A Broken Heart?
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.
Like somebody from Damascus that is passing through Andalucía
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.
Cauliflower :: Storytelling 2
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 […]
Bird Dance :: CD review
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 […]
How I became a writer :: Flamenco Dance Story
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 […]
Prince Kiss from Purple Rain in a flamenco dance 1
My dance teacher decided to create a flamenco choreography to a pop song. After much deliberation she chose Prince Kiss.
Story of a Fish :: Flamenco Dance Story 3
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 […]
Every Dance Tells a Story
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. […]
Vancouver Women of Flamenco
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 […]
Where does furious dancing come from? 3
“Hard times require furious dancing” so wrote Alice Walker. But, what happens when the hard times are over and furious dancing remains.
I Want to Be Purple :: Flamenco in English
Flamenco in English is a long held dream that I had. Finally I made my first attempt at it.
Flash Mob in Vancouver BC
Flamenco 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 – […]
Free Flamenco Dance Lessons 1
Covering the basics of flamenco dance in four easy flamenco dance lessons provided for free.
The Nasty Voice inside my head 4
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.
Flamingo Flamenco Debate Rages 2
There seems to be a confusion between the two words: flamingo flamenco. Allow me to illustrate the difference.
How To Get Over A Breakup 4
Despite my strength I find myself in a fragile state when asking “How to get over a breakup?”
In Rehearsals: Kasandra La China Directs the Show: Café de Chinitas 2010 1
A chance to win free tickets to an amazing show.
Storytelling: Stage Fright 3
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?
Winter Flamenco
I felt very honored when I discovered that my photo is featured of the student flamenco show poster.