Lately I have been taking advantage of the Groupon Deals and Living Social promotions  for the much needed yoga. Every time I check there is some kind of yoga membership for $20 for 15 or 20 classes. There is so much to try out there. I have been going to the Yoga Centre Toronto, near Yonge […]
A super hot day and a seven hour walk has ended. I have been going around so much this Saturday that I thought I was going to faint. I didn’t want to stop and I started wondering if all those nice neighbours saying Hi to me were going to pick me up from the sidewalk. […]
The Bay Area Flamenco Festival will have a very special flamenco singer this Sunday: Diego El Cigala. I had a previous post a couple of months ago regarding his presentation in Toronto at the beginning of November and now I see a poster at Emeryville that promotes his show this weekend at the UC Berkeley. […]
Today I woke up to a cloudy morning, went food shopping before noon and rushed back home (third floor room) to endulge myself with hot cocoa and cookies. I was planning on doing some reading but only after seeing the news for five minutes my friend from Madrid contacted me on Skype. We have been […]
Mariño is an excellent guitarist from Havana who is best known in Cuba for his flamenco sounds. I have been listening this morning to his CD from 2003 “Alma Gitana” and started wondering what happened to his career since I left Cuba. From what I could find on the internet he lives and works in […]
This video was directed by X Alfonso in order to promote the Lizt Alfonso Ballet show “Vida”. The interpreters of the song are Omara Portuondo and Eme Alfonso/ Ele Valdes from Sintesis.
Lizt Alfonso Dance Company will have a show in New York on November 3rd, 2011 at the New York City Center (NYCC). The presentation will be a part of the Fall for Dance Festival which will be running from Oct,27th to Nov,6th. The show “Pa’ Cuba me voy” (2001) will be performed by 17 female dancers […]
This Saturday and Sunday I did not go downtown at all. I guess that what kept me away from the centre movement was Haight St. I am sure that enough has been said about the Haight Ashbury hood in the decade of the 60’s and 70’s. People might not know much about SF but they […]
A couple of days will pass and I will be at the doors of a whole new decade. As weird as it sounds I will be a 30 years old woman. But, do I really feel like one? Why the fuss about turning 30? Is there a chip inside us that turns on and suddenly […]
Fernando Perez is well known for the quality of his films but also because of his sensitivity and profound ways of treating the subjects. If someone gives me to choose a Cuban director to portrait Jose Marti’s life and work I would probably choose him out of all the others.
