Flamenco dance memoir

If you want to know what inspired me to become a flamenco dancer in the first place, I had seen Carmen Amaya, a Gypsy from Barcelona, dance. She rattled the air with her heel work, arched her back like a thumb, and stalked the stage as if looking for a lover. I looked on her art with enormous eyes; I was hooked. But it was still years before I got to Spain.

I am currently finishing my memoir, Gypsy Flamenco, about studying with maestro Pio Mateo Mendoza, the last of his line of great dancers from the Golden Age of flamenco in Seville. Try the links to Alegrias and Seville from the memoir.