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About
Webmistress
Birth date: 02/05/1984
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Nationality: Portuguese, Welsh,
English, Scottish, Roma Gypsy
Flamenco Experience:
I am a graduate of the professional program under Rosario Ancer
of Centro Flamenco and Alma de España (artistic directors
Veronica Maguire and Harry Owen), have performed over 100 shows
over the past eleven years and taken lessons from such teachers
Yaelisa, "Cha Cha", Julie Fontaine (from Montreal),
Angelita Gómez, Javier Latorre, Monolo Marín,
Manolete, Irene, Juana Amaya, and Carmen Romeros. Recipient
of 2nd place 2000 Kiwanis Arts award and 2002 Flamenco de la
Isla Society dance scholarship. I would love to study some more
in Spain after my amazing experience in Cadiz, Jerez, and Seville
during the Festival de Jerez 2000.
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 How
I Started:
There was something so captivating and mysterious about this flamenco
show in Victoria, that even at the age of seven I knew right then
and there that I had to learn about this art form. Three years later
I finally got the opportunity to take lessons from the performer,
the talented teacher Veronica Maguire, and I was hooked.
I believe that flamenco
can be a life-long pursuit and I have a passion to learn and share
my knowledge with others. I enjoy playing the castanets, dancing
with the bata de cola, and using fans and shawls in dance but I
also feel that the dance can be just as powerful without all these
elements. As well, I occasionally play the cajon and am dabbling
in guitar.
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