{"id":9012,"date":"2021-05-03T16:12:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/?page_id=9012"},"modified":"2021-05-03T18:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T19:27:50","slug":"la-bailarina-y-el-diplomatico-capitulo-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/la-bailarina-y-el-diplomatico-capitulo-6\/","title":{"rendered":"LA BAILARINA Y EL DIPLOM\u00c1TICO – CAPITULO 6"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three years full of surreal adventures, successfully at a frenetic rhythm in Los Angeles, California <\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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With my students at the Sushi Place next to the school.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Chapter 6. The american dream has begun<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We meet directly for a drink. Bertha was looking at me all the time with huge super black eyes that were popping out of her face from the excitement of having me close and trapped in LA. <\/span><\/p>

She was Afro American and I really liked that. Flamenco has always gone rey close to them and she was also totally enraptured with me. <\/span><\/p>

She told me that flamenco was only studied in LA for an hour on Wednesdays, and very occasionally, on a Saturday. That the students waited for the courses of the teachers who came from Spain once or twice a year ... people are very busy in Los Angeles. <\/span><\/p>

She told me that she would call about 5 students and we would have a class to get to know me and see the result. <\/span><\/p>

That I was a teacher in \u201cAmor De Dios\u201d the most prestigious flamenco studies in the world, would surely help, but they didn't know me there, they didn't even know Madrid in LA! Only Barcelona and very few people <\/span><\/p>

Normally, people there don't have vacations, even 10 years go by and they have only gone a week to Cabo San Lucar, which is nearby. <\/span><\/p>

Bertha, immediately after class, took me to a dance school that had been closed for many years, because their director, a great Tap dancer, the father of the famous teacher from the FAMA series, Debbie Allen, had to be pointed out a leg due to a serious illness. <\/span><\/p>

When I enter one of the 2 huge rooms it had, and step on that plywood floor, perfect for flamenco, with a sound of roots, of purity. \nThe old grand piano with the soul of blues, the walls full of photos of Hollywood tap myths, the old mirrors speckled by quicksilver stains, full of experiences, rehearsals, art, and good time ... A sensation came through my body, so incredible!, of respect, admiration and at the same time of such great sorrow, that I already had the duty to restore joy and bring new blood. <\/span><\/p>

I closed my eyes, and for an instant I visualized everything that then really happened to me. <\/span><\/p>

Bertha informed me that during the mornings, children without economic resources between 5 and 10 years old would come to study with a teacher. <\/span><\/p>

But that they would leave me school to start teaching and that as students entered, I would already pay rent to help with the reform of the changing rooms and bathrooms. <\/span><\/p>

I did not hesitate for a minute to run away and spend the last $ 50 that I had left of the $ 100 that I brought for a year, and buy in the corner store two plants that would give life to the reception and ten lollipops for the children that would be my friends and my inspiration. <\/span><\/p>

But my biggest surprise was, when right next door I had an old fashioned shoemaker, with its tiny shop, I couldn't believe it! We would do business! <\/span><\/p>

I entered again super happy and with the spirit of a director and I said aloud to Bertha; I am going to revolutionize flamenco in LA, the students will study from Monday to Thursday from 8:30 pm to 10pm as if we were in Spain and stomped so much that the \u201cFilis\u201d on the sole would wear out and then we will do business by bringing the \u201c Filis \u201dfrom Madrid, which shoemaker will change according to what I teach him and to whom we will give a percentage. <\/span><\/p>

Within a week of starting, and solely by word of mouth, I already had 20 local students every day, in addition to 8 hours a day of private classes. Students who came from San Diego driving two hours one way and two hours back just to study with me, students each of a different nationality, we were UNICEF! <\/span><\/p>

The school was reborn and vibrated with the sound of flamenco nails. <\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Consul of Spain adds me to his guest list\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Unattended dreams will breathe life<\/p>

All my wishes will come true
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And theree’ll be time for everything<\/p>

When I get over you..
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LA BAILARINA Y EL DIPLOM\u00c1TICO BIOGRAF\u00cdA Tres a\u00f1os llenos de aventuras surrealistas, a un ritmo fren\u00e9tico y de \u00e9xito en Los \u00c1ngeles , California  Con mis alumnos en el Sushi Place al lado de la escuela. Cap\u00edtulo 6.El sue\u00f1o americano acaba de empezar Quedamos directamente a tomar una copa. Bertha durante todo el tiempo me […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9012","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9044,"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9012\/revisions\/9044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}