How To Learn And Master Flamenco

March 23, 2010 By 12 Comments

I would like to talk about an aspect of learning that is easily overlooked in today’s fast paced world: Patience and methodology.

In a world of instant everything, mobile texting, email, drive-through, microwaveable mash potatoes, etc, our expectation of the world around and what we believe it should provide us with is ever more immediate. If our computer stalls for 5 extra seconds we start to get annoyed and antsy.

If we carry these emotional attitudes into our learning process we are doomed to suffer frustration and our minds will stall more than 5 seconds, we can enter a cycle of endless impatience and dissatisfaction with our selves and our process.

Caja Madrid Festival

March 17, 2010 By 1 Comment

Now in its 18th year, the Caja Madrid Flamenco Fesival, sponsored by the Spanish bank Caja Madrid’s Social Fund, has become an annual staple in the Spanish capital. Although relatively small when compared with other performing arts festivals, what Caja Madrid’s event lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality, by inviting the biggest names in flamenco.