{"id":9487,"date":"2021-06-21T09:26:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/?page_id=9487"},"modified":"2021-08-30T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:59:01","slug":"la-bailarina-y-el-diplomatico-capitulo-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/la-bailarina-y-el-diplomatico-capitulo-13\/","title":{"rendered":"LA BAILARINA Y EL DIPLOM\u00c1TICO – CAPITULO 13"},"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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Chapter 13. I am named Ambassador of flamenco in the Los Angeles Consular Corps representing Spain\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I had put up flyers in the facilities of the Park La Brea apartments announcing the new classes to flamenco for children and my student Maden, who was still in love with me, painted a beautiful portrait of me dancing in charcoal. It was the first time that I had not used a photo and it perfectly reflected the Disney style, Just as I asked.<\/p>

 In the United States it is not like in Spain that we have the washing machine inside the house and the clothesline is used. People share the laundry of the building where you wash and dry clothes at the moment, in huge machines that cost only a few quarters. While I was waiting for my clothes, a boy, Ryan, approached me, asking if I was the one on the poster, congratulating me on my recent performance for Antonio Banderas and that he had noticed that I was not advertising any web page. That he was dedicated to web design and gave me his card. I'm not sure if it was his accent, his smile, his hair, his body, his origin, his religion, but I fell in love. Today after 19 years it is still intact in my heart and Ryan with whom I still maintain contact, don't even know it! <\/span><\/p>\n

I loved going to his house every morning, being very close to him on the computer and I dreamed of getting on his surfboard with him that was in front of us as a witness and still wet since Ryan went every day to surf in Malibu at 6 am and then we would work at estherponce.com. estherponce.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Only fighting people do that, those who make time for everything even if they have to get up early and I always identified myself with Ryan, who was growing very fast as foam in his profession, except when I got up early, which was fatal. <\/p>\n

It was always clear to me that pleasure was not to be mixed with work and I was looking forward to finishing the web so I could meet Ryan for some chocolate cocktails at Lola\u2019s West Hollywood. <\/p>\n

The Consul called me to meet for coffee and offer to represent Spain among 100 countries as Flamenco Ambassador at the annual Consular Corps gala held at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The Consul already knew that I was a theater dancer and that no one in my dressing room bothered me before to go on stage, but he also knew what was important to grow in my artistic career in Los Angeles.  <\/p>\n

After dancing I found a huge line of Consuls waiting for a photo with me. My heart told me to take a picture together and finish quickly to call Ryan with some excuse from the web and go see him, but my head helped me focus on the protocol, on saying the politically correct thing about each country, in each greeting and after each photo. <\/p>\n

Later on I would receive a signed letter from each Consulate of 60 countries in the world in which it would say: <\/p>\n

Miss Esther Ponce, since her arrival in Los Angeles at the end of 2001, has contributed to the dissemination of Spanish culture in this city and in Southern California, demonstrating at all times a great professionalism and knowledge of the culture and art of the flamenco\u2026<\/p>\n

This material was presented at the time of immigration in the city of New York where I would be granted the O1 visa, special abilities. They also received personalities such as the lyrical singer Montserrat Caball\u00e9 or the soccer player David Beckham. <\/p>\n

As always, destiny held a new fascinating adventure for me. It was Tuesday and Sof\u00eda, an North American girl, came to see my class. <\/span>tall, dark hair , with bright eyes of a light color difficult to tell at first glance, lawyer and speaking Spanish with practically no accent to perfection. She told me that she wanted to learn to dance flamenco for the disco. I immediately got a smile, I invited her to sit on the bench in the studio while I explained that in my classes high-level technique and choreography were learned and that it was essential to have professional flamenco shoes. Normally my classes could be seen for a limited time unless you came as a listener paying a lower price. But the good connection with Sof\u00eda was enormous and I let her stay until the end of class, because I sensed that she would come later to the Sushi Place and that she would become my best friend. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the end of the class, Sof\u00eda immediately asked me where she could buy the shoes, it was difficult since in LA there was only one very expensive store and also of low quality. <\/p>\n

But Sof\u00eda was in luck since the students who had been with me from the beginning had ordered new shoes from the best manufacturer \"Gallardo\" and that my father would bring from Madrid on his next visit. So the second-hand market began and ended at the top of our favorite wooden table testing the sound of heels, while Sof\u00eda told us about the stand she had in the Rastro of Madrid selling Levis jeans when she was studying in Spain . To the rhythm of sake goes and sake comes. <\/p>\n


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The indecent proposal of Ilya Salkind, producer of \"Superman\" dining at Canter\u2019s. \n\n\n\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Poster for the new classes that my student the architect Maden drew.<\/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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With the Consul of Argentina in L.A.<\/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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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  Cap. 13 Me nombran Embajadora del Flamenco en Los Angeles Consular Corps representando a Espa\u00f1a Hab\u00eda puesto carteles en las instalaciones de los apartamentos Park La Brea  anunciando las nuevas clases de […]<\/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-9487","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9487","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=9487"}],"version-history":[{"count":61,"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10101,"href":"https:\/\/estherponcemagazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9487\/revisions\/10101"}],"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=9487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}