Esther Ponce Magazine

Esther Ponce Magazine

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Experimental Flamenco has born following the excellent friendship that Esther Ponce maintains with some of her ancient students from around the world. Los Angeles, Miami, Moscow, Paris, New York, are just a small example of the cities demanding update teaching lessons.

Valencia, the third largest Spanish city with its fantastic editerranean atmosphere is the chosen city where Esther Ponce is developing this new concept of “Experimental Flamenco”. She offers the Flamenco foreign student a new concept of learning or improving his/her dancing skills. It includes a visit to our Art Center (CAFE) and enjoy a day in an intensive seminar that includes:
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  • 2 hours of private and personalized flamenco technique from Madrid school.
  • Watching and learning about the paintings of famous painter and former director of the contemporary museum of Madrid, Mr. Julio Prieto Nespereira.
  • Graphical conference about the history and evolutions of Flamenco; Active participation of the student will take place.
  • Appetizers with excellent Spanish wine, local cheese and famous Spanish ham.
  • To finish will taste the famous Valencian “Paella del Senyoret” ( The Paella of lords) made with fresh seafood delicately prepared with organic products and our secret recipe.

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Extra activities:

  • Visiting the process of making “Horchata” a unique local beverage
  • Visiting the manufacturing process of the “ Abanico”(cloth fan)
  • A guided tour in local boats of natural park “Albufera”
  • A guided tour of Museum of “Las Fallas”
  • We can organize the best Beach “Pool Flamenco Party” that you will never forget

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Nace de la amistad que Esther Ponce actualmente mantiene con algunas de sus alumnas tanto de Moscú, como Los Angeles, Miami , Paris etc y su demanda de seguir estudiando con su maestra de España.

Valencia es la ciudad elegida donde nace el el Proyecto Valencia con Esther Ponce. » Flamenco Experimental», dará la oportunidad al extranjero aficionado o no al Flamenco,  de visitar  El Centro de Arte ( CAFE) Y disfrutar de un día de cursillo intensivo que incluye

2 horas privadas y personalizadas de técnica de Flamenco de Madrid. Acomodación en los vestuarios y descanso del tiempo suficiente mientras se puede admirar en sus paredes el trabajo artístico del que fuese director del
museo contemporáneo de Madrid el famoso Pintor Gallego Prieto Nespereira

Conferencia Visual con guitarra y Cante en directo sobre los orígenes del Flamenco hasta nuestro días. El alumno podrá preguntar, participar y comentar.

Seguidamente se dará paso a la cata y degustación: de un vino tinto español elegido para la ocasión, acompañada de nuestros sobrios quesos curados  y de gustando nuestro Exquisito jamon Ibérico.

Como despedida pasaremos a la cata del vino Blanco de la tierra Valenciana para acompañar a la selecta y sabrosa paella digna de un buen paladar. Paella del Señoret! La  Paella de los señores. Hecha de Marisco y pescado fresco variado y delicadamente pelado el cual se funde su sabor con el arroz directo de la huerta valencia a base de productos orgánicos. Formando así un sabor digno de apreciar y  un placer de Dioses.

Posibilidad de contratar más actividades fuera del Centro como:
Asistir a la fabricación de un abanico,
Elaboración de la famosa horchata, bebida popular y deliciosa valenciana que viene de la fruta de la CHUFA .

Paseo  privado y personalizado en barca recorriéndo la Albufera de Valencia y sus típicas casa en el agua «Barracas»  casas en el agua filmadas por la serie galardonada de TV. Cañas y Barro de Blasco Ibáñez.

Visitar el Arte del famoso pintor Valenciano Joaquin Sorrolla  por rincones escondidos del centro de la ciudad de Valencia.
Y despedirte con una inolvidable fiesta de puesta de sol en la playa.
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Unleash Your Inner Flamenca is dedicated to all the women of the world and it does not mean that you have to be flamenco or dedicate yourself to the world of dance. It is an expression, it is a way of facing the setbacks that life gives us and because flamenco has that attitude of: Here I am!

Unleashing my inner Flamenca has helped me in many very extreme situations in my life and, not only technically speaking as a flamenco professional, but in those times that I didn't have to be dancing, or teaching, or competing, or performing on stage. I’m talking about everyday life.

That is why you too can bring out your inner Flamenca. 

A flamenca woman is confident, a flamenca woman is sure of herself, has gravitas, has bearing, has wisdom and knows how to be in command. 

In other words, unleash your inner Flamenca and join me in this adventure in which we are going to have a great time! We know how it starts and we don't know how it ends, but it is sure to be one of the most unforgettable experiences of your life.

I didn't need to be famous to sleep in Hemingway's Presidential suite at the Gritti Palace in Venice for all my birthdays. 

Have a Bellini while I wait for the gondola that will take me to the private Film Festival party on the yacht of my colleague, who was a Versace collaborator, or dine on the famous terrace of the Hotel Danieli. 

It is also true that if I had slept with all my stalkers, I would now be more famous than Sara Baras. BUT! no matter how much I took a shower, the smell of vomit would not go away from my body and the phrase of: “how did I get it” would be the soundtrack of my life, which would turn my insides with each applause. 

Nor did I need to be famous to have a bodyguard escort me to the door of the plane, in the direction of the American Embassy in Beirut or go in a Limousine and drink the best champagne. 

“Todo lo he conseguido con pasión, seguridad en mi misma , esfuerzo y dedicación”. 

Proving first to myself and then to the whole world that I don't need to sell myself to a man to succeed in my career. And that I bring out the inner Flamenca every time they cross my path. 

Do not allow any man to command you or demand what you have to do. 

Lucha por lo que quieras, viste como quieras, maquíllate como quieras , estudia lo que quieras y júntate con quien quieras.

The first time a man lays his hand on you, it will be his fault, but the second time it will be your fault for putting up with the first time. 

And if you feel trapped and you are afraid to stand up to your reality, look for a way as if it were the last day of your life to give a signal at the pharmacy, at the market, to a neighbor you come across, to anyone who can hear this number: 016! and it will be the first step to your salvation, to your new life, surely filled with all the good things you long for and where no one will let you back down. You will immediately be protected by the society that will protect and help you without conditions. And I, Esther Ponce, am already thinking of you. 

UNLEASH YOUR INNER FLAMENCA #SACALAFLAMENCA

I have suffered more than 10 workplace harassments from very famous people in the world of show business, and knowing what I now know, I would have denounced it. 

A I’m going to tell you how I brought out the flamenco that I have in extreme situations and that I hope and serve to help some woman to do the same as me.

For now I'm only going to use nicknames.

“If I had slept with all my stalkers, I would now be more famous than Sara Baras. "

 

With my testimony and my own experience, living in different countries of the world and interacting with all kinds of social classes, race, culture and religion, I want to turn around the drama that women experience in the world.
Ayudarlas a salir de ese callejón oscuro, animarlas y convencerlas de que nunca tiren la toalla , de que existe un mundo maravilloso esperándoles para sacar lo mejor de ellas. Su fuerza, su belleza interior y sus ganas de salir adelante. Que no dejen de luchar por los derechos de la mujer y la igualdad de género. Que griten a los cuatro vientos  y que no se callen nunca, que sonrían y que se llenen de paz con la belleza que nos brinda Lanzarote y su naturaleza.
That they are not alone... that they unleash their inner flamenca A strong and self-confident woman, the director of their own life. That she clings to the ground with temperance and ready to scratch at any moment if necessary and fight life with the best smile... 

I have experiences and anecdotes to tell all women; the neighborhood ones, the rich ones , the conflictive ones, the addicted ones, etc. And always with my motto that to run away from any situation, the best thing is to practice athletics! … My uncle used to called me Dance Athlete, he said; As long as you have strong legs and a strong heart, you can fly! . 

Esther Ponce's experimental Flamenco is ready for the Valencian Director of Tourism to meet

It is very gratifying to have an idea like the experimental Flamenco in Valencia, carry it out and have managed to attract more than 20 foreign clients to Valencia in a short time and without marketing, who have passed through the Flamenco Art Center, and who have not only They learned a lot if not they have returned to their country with a better concept of Valencia.

His experience and approach to flamenco led by Esther Ponce will make you return without hesitation to the city of Turia.

Esther Ponce not only surrounds them with her passion and charisma from the first moment, her professionalism and a very long journey through different countries of the world where she has lived for long periods, she makes them fall in love.

You just have to read the dedications of all the foreigners who write in their precious notebook created for them and that are already adding more and more.

«They also buy semi-professional shoes and a skirt to study with me.» That’s already the best! –
~ Esther Ponce

 The foreigner is used to teaching flamenco very quickly and without discipline, anything goes, any shoe, any skirt, hanging out even parodying and even ridiculing flamenco.

With me if they want to study two private hours which is the minimum, they are given the option of buying or renting the shoes and none of them have thought twice about it to this day.
 
«Being a polyglot, doors just open up to me» –
~ Esther Ponce
 
Definitely the Experimental Flamenco of Esther Ponce has an Angel!

From England, without a doubt the most special Experimental Flamenco we have had at the Flamenco Art Center in these two and a half years.

The Esther Ponce Stylized Flamenco Art Center has been open for two and a half years. El Ángel Every August 28, for Esther’s birthday, a new foreign student gives her a gift and the flamenco toast intensifies.

«The students do not want to miss the opportunity to study with me. When they start to study my technique they are hooked at the first second. Those who play sports and take care of themselves immediately identify with my stretching and feel safer for the rest of the class and those who don’t appreciate it and will surely start practicing it and taking care of themselves forever »
~ Esther Ponce

This year Esther thought that her Angel would be very busy due to the current pandemic situation and also that it would be a coincidence that another year happened.

But to Esther’s surprise it was like that and without doubt the most special flamenco toast for England.

«Discipline is my hallmark and not even the Covid has stopped us» «I have never doubted it and I will only teach classes with a mask»
~ Esther Ponce

After the experience of teaching classes with a mask? A private flamenco class for two hours without stopping, does Esther remember that when she and the student went out into the street they breathed for two seconds as if there were no tomorrow?According to Esther’s recent experience, with the mask you cannot see the total expression of the student, but the eyes also speak and flamenco is also expressed with the body.

With all the safety measures, the student disinfected her shoes, put hydroalcoholic gel on her hands, a temperature control was performed with a non-contact forehead thermometer and the student did not remove her mask during the two hours, only in the changing room that she only used to drink water. 

“Now I can present my Experimental Flamenco to the director of Tourism of Valencia and let him roll with the little ham :)”
 
~ Esther Ponce