🌹When you realise you're inheriting more than a dance 🇪🇸
Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Hola Reader
On the surface, it might seem like we're simply learning steps.
But pause for a moment and consider this:
Every dance we learn is an inheritance of art passed down through time.
For those of us who can see life beyond material goods, we start to reflect on what richness means to us.
Recently, I've been teaching Asturias. It's a beautiful dance that my maestra, Paloma Gómez from Madrid, taught me.
As I watched my students learning—and as I put together this little video—I reflected on the privilege of this process.
Paloma passed it on to me, and I now pass it on to my students. Before Paloma, another maestro—or perhaps her parents, who were dancers themselves—passed it on to her.
And so the thread of inheritance continues.
It fills me with wonder when I think about that.
If you love culture, places and people as much as I do, then you'll discover that Spanish dance opens a wider world.
Through my years in Spain, learning and working with my maestros, living with the locals, dance paved the way for much more.
Beyond the studio, it became a way to keep growing, sow meaningful relationships and experience a wider world.
Perhaps that is why I'm still at it after 20+ years (and have not fallen off 😆).
Once in a while, people comment that I'm passionate.
But actually, I didn't start out passionate.
Heck, I didn't even know what flamenco was when I first started! 🤣
Over the decades, I got fueled and fed—by my maestros who passed their art to me, by the locals and their Spanish culture, by the experiences, environment and source I 'drank' from.
And that is what enriches my life, and gives meaning to my dance.
I've shared a short video from our Asturias class below.
(It's not really about perfect steps. It's about our endeavors.)
Un abrazo,
🌹 Tania
For those who come my way, there is much I hope to share—not only dance, but the culture, connections and a deeper experience of Life.
