• Home
  • About
    • Contact
    • Media
      • Gallery
      • Videos
  • Live Classes
  • Online Lessons
    • Free Lessons
    • Courses
    • Live Zoom Classes
    • Join the Online Flamenco Studio Waitlist
  • LOG IN: Membership
    • LOG IN: Courses
  • Shows
  • Blog
  • Privacy Policy
RINA ORELLANA FLAMENCO
  • About
    • Contact
  • Live Classes
  • Online Lessons
    • Free Lessons
    • Courses
    • Join the Online Flamenco Studio
  • LOG IN: Membership
    • LOG IN: Courses
  • Shows
  • Blog

Flamenco Coffee Talk Blog

Grab a cuppa and let's talk flamenco!

My Student Show Review

My Student Show Review

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 know their entrances and exits? Will everyone remember their choreography? Will […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com September 24, 2014 Flamenco Dance, Learning Flamenco, Performing Flamenco No Comments
Read More
Stoking the Flamenco Fire

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 […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com September 15, 2014 Flamenco Craft & Practice, Flamenco Dance, Learning Flamenco, Performing Flamenco No Comments
Read More
What I’ve Learned After 10 Years of Student Shows

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 […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com August 19, 2014 Business of Flamenco, Flamenco Community, Flamenco Dance, Performing Flamenco, Teaching Flamenco No Comments
Read More
How to Dance Like a Champ or Preventing Flamenco Dance Injuries Part 2

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 […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com July 29, 2014 Flamenco Accessories & Tools, Flamenco Dance, Flamenco Health & Fitness No Comments
Read More
How to Prevent Flamenco Dance Injuries, Part 1

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 […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com June 14, 2014 Flamenco Dance, Flamenco Health & Fitness No Comments
Read More
In Honor of Flamenco Mamas

In Honor of Flamenco Mamas

This is me with my kids after a student show a few years ago. Check in the mirror to see what I’m hiding behind my son. As I said, wine helps things. Salud to ALL the […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com May 8, 2014 Flamenco Community, Flamenco Dance No Comments
Read More
Flamenca Got Back! Or Another Way to Get Stronger Flamenco Footwork

Flamenca Got Back! Or Another Way to Get Stronger Flamenco Footwork

I had to take a picture of my butt in the studio I saw my new shelf. Yes, I’m flaunting my back side. Saying that I had “junk in my trunk” was never a personal […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com April 2, 2014 Flamenco Dance, Flamenco Health & Fitness No Comments
Read More
Flamenco Kids

Flamenco Kids

La Niña Flamenca de Disneyland Flamenco is a cultural dance even though it has been elevated to the world stage. Children learn it and live it in the kitchens at home with their family playing […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com February 18, 2014 Flamenco Dance, Learning Flamenco No Comments
Read More
Flamenco Shoes Blues

Flamenco Shoes Blues

I actually don’t have as many shoes as I thought! Get me to Flamenco West! Unless you can go to Spain, buying flamenco shoes is such a hassle. You know your size and style and […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com November 22, 2013 Flamenco Accessories & Tools, Flamenco Dance No Comments
Read More
Finding a Room of One’s Own

Finding a Room of One’s Own

My shoes are always waiting near my portable dance floor under my couch. Er, I mean dance studio. I remember back in my college days having to read “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia […]

By rina@rinaorellana.com September 13, 2013 Flamenco Accessories & Tools, Flamenco Craft & Practice, Flamenco Dance 2 Comments
Read More
  • 1
  • 2
  • …
  • 11
  • 12
  • 13

Popular Posts

  • The Ultimate Guide to Flamenco Shoes
    The Ultimate Guide to Flamenco Shoes
  • The Dancer's Guide to the Structure of Flamenco
    The Dancer's Guide to the Structure of Flamenco
  • The Men of Flamenco
    The Men of Flamenco
  • Build Your Own Flamenco Practice Dance Floor
    Build Your Own Flamenco Practice Dance Floor
  • Dancer's Guide to the Palos (Rhythms) of Flamenco
    Dancer's Guide to the Palos (Rhythms) of Flamenco

Search This Blog

Categories

© 2025 — Rina Orellana Flamenco.

  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact