Sara and Miguelito. February 20, 2010 (photo by Jani)

So this past Saturday's attendance for the first show was slightly down—which I attribute to the fact that a lot of other clubs were hosting pre-St Patrick's day parties. In any case, I did have some friends show up who had never seen Citron's flamenco show before (thank you Omoladun & Aleshia!) which is always good. By the second set, we had the dining area filled-up to capacity as usual, yay!

If you're one of my many friends on Facebook, you know that I've been promoting the Saturday Night flamenco show consistently every week. And every week, I send out invites to a couple of hundred DC area friends who I know have an interest in flamenco. As expected, the first few weeks, I had an overwhelming response to the invite with a lot of people saying they were definitely coming and quite a few saying they were maybe coming. Then the next following weeks, the response to the invite went down slightly but people still showed up and packed the place anyway.

I'm going to continue to send out the invites every week as usual, but I'm confident that the word is out by now: everyone that I know in the DC area (who's on Facebook) and has an interest in flamenco pretty much knows about the Saturday night show. But it doesn't hurt to keep announcing it week after week. So I apologize in advance if you're getting annoyed by my persistence! :-)

Sara and Miguelito. February 20, 2010 (photo by Jani)

Just a few brief announcements:

The Alfonso Losa flamenco workshop (organized by Genoveva) is coming up March 31st at DC Dance Collective. More info on Facebook.

If you're a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, you'll be happy to know there is a weekly flamenco class taught by Miriam Phillips with live guitar accompaniment by Miguelito (that's me!) and Gerard Moreno. The course number is DANCE 489F and it's on Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:30pm-4:45pm in Studio 2 of the Clarice Smith Center ('cept this week due to Spring Break). Stop by and say hi!

Just added to the calendar a bunch of upcoming shows for Natalia Monteleón's Arte Flamenco. I'm all about promoting everyone of course. But I checked the websites for the other DC area dance companies and didn't see any upcoming shows. Nudge, nudge. :-)

UPDATE: Furia Flamenca just added a bunch of shows to the calendar! Thank you Furia!

Dancer/teacher/choreographer Jaime Coronado celebrates his birthday this week. Unfortunately, I don't have any recent pics of him, but if you do run into Jaime be sure to wish him a happy birthday...which reminds me that I have to write a blog about my experience working with him last year doing a Spanish-themed musical (yes, I said musical) based on the childrens' book Ferdinand the Bull.

Sara and Miguelito. February 20, 2010 (photo by Jani)

Sara. February 20, 2010 (photo by Jani)

Sara and Miguelito. February 20, 2010 (photo by Jani)

Sara and Jani. February 20, 2010

Thanks again to Jani for taking these fabulous pics. Just a reminder, if you do intend to come out to the Saturday night flamenco show, call ahead at 202-530-8844 and reserve a table and be sure to ask to be seated next to the stage.

My netbook battery's about the die out, so I'm going to sign off. Stay tuned in a day or two for another blog entry. Ciao for now!