Unleash the Flamenco Beast: Practice!
Welcome to my new series of blog posts, Unleash the Flamenco Beast, where I go over various ways to improve your dancing physically and mentally. I’m really excited to be presenting this and I hope...
NEW! Free Bata de Cola Videos
My students jokingly call the bata de cola the “dress of death” because it can be very challenging. But the allure of this beautiful costume trumps the fear! Now is your chance to learn a few...
Bring On the Romance!
The flamenco palo, that is. Some palos (flamenco rhythms) get all the attention: Solea, Bulerias, Alegrias, Solea por Bulerias, Tangos, Tientos, Siguirilla, Guajira, Taranto. But there are so many more that continually vie for my...
Free Intro to Flamenco Videos!
Starting to learn flamenco is a funny thing. People that have come to my new beginners classes are either energized or overwhelmed by all the new material. They’ve also always asked if there was a...
How I Choreograph for Flamenco
At the end of show party for the last student showcase, one of my dancers asked me, “How the heck do you keep choreographing something new for each session?” It’s true, I don’t ever...
My Student Show Review
Group shot from Rina Orellana Flamenco Academy show, Sept 20, 2014 Our Comunidad Flamenca show celebrating 10 years of my academy was a success! It’s always so intense up until the very end. Does everyone...
Stoking the Flamenco Fire
Stoking the flamenco fire in El Amor Brujo by Carlos Saura My flamenco dance school’s showcase is coming up, so it’s crunch time in the studio with all of my dancers. This is the last week...
What I’ve Learned After 10 Years of Student Shows
I’ve been presenting my students in showcases since 2005. They started off as rag tag events at a restaurant in Hermosa Beach. Now they’ve evolved into a polished show at small performance spaces...
How to Dance Like a Champ or Preventing Flamenco Dance Injuries Part 2
Don Flamenco says,”Amorcita, por favor, use your core muscles to save your back. And here is $250 to buy yourself a good pair of flamenco shoes.” In my last post in this series I wrote about...
How to Prevent Flamenco Dance Injuries, Part 1
Inge Morath’s portrait of La Golondrina doing a floor backbend in Granada, Spain, in 1954. I bet she drank plenty of bone broth to keep that back supple! Every time I tell someone that I’m a...
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