The Spanish Lady

I love dancing! Perhaps it goes back to my childhood when my parents used to practice in the living room and they looked so happy. My father used to let me dance with him by standing on his feet as he moved around the room and I couldn’t wait to do “real dancing”.  I never really liked the standard dances teenagers were doing where you moved around, flapping your arms and never really connecting with your partner…at least that’s what I thought about it. Ballroom dancing was more my thing I guess but it wasn’t available to me until my early twenties and I cam across a dance studio. Slowly, I learned different types of dancing and finally found dance Festivals,  dance competitions and dance conventions. I was in heaven and still am! I hope you get the chance to try ballroom dancing even if only for pleasure and not for any type of competition. It is a lot of fun and a great way to stay in shape. Just take a look at all those people who lose weight on Dancing With The Stars!

Winner Tara-Jean Popowich

If at first you don’t succeed then try, try again. The old adage couldn’t ring more true for the young bright-eyed dancer Tara-Jean Popowich, who on Sunday night (October 25) became the first woman to win So You Think You Can Dance Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Here the series is more oriented as a Reality Show and was first broadcast in Spring 2005, hosted by Anne Igartiburu on the national TV station La Primera (“Channel One”). The Spanish title of the show is “Mira quien baila” (“Look Who’s Dancing”). The celebrities that took part were: Read the rest of this entry »

One of the great delights of family travel, is the spontaneous joyful moments that seem to come out of nowhere. We went to Bilboa didn’t really expect to find the area so charming as I had read some negative things about it. Read the rest of this entry »

Flamenco is a folk art, around 200 years old. It is from Southern Spain and is individualistic, yet structured. Song, dance and guitar are blended into passionate rhythms which are often improvised and spontaneous. Flamenco will have any imaginable theme, from up to date stories, to politics, to love, to history, to humor, etc. Often however, the tragic lyrics and tone of flamenco reflect the sufferings of the gypsy people from whom it originated Read the rest of this entry »