Marco Flores en Tel Aviv

From his show last night through festival Días de flamenco
Photos by Yaron Segal

Happy Valentine's day

Happy Valentine's day to you all!

By this day I want to thank you all again for reading the blog. Again - many changes at the top 10 states in the entrances. Still the same states - but accept the 2 at the very top - some changes at the order. Just writing again, althought it isn't all:

USA = 54832
Russia - 24778
Israel - 9237
Germany - 6209
Spain - 6164
France - 3811
Ukraine - 1837
Italy - 1307
UK - 997
Turkey - 787

Love to you all and much flamenco - no matter if you're at the top ten or from another state

A photo by Yaron Segal

Happy New Year

I wish you all a Happy New Year
May you all have a lot of luck, love and health at 2014
May your dreams will come true and you will find some more for some hope,
And a year full in flamenco

From end of year show of 2012 
With the studio of Neta
On the back: Andreu Ilin (guitar) and Ofir Atar
A photo by Yaron Segal

Go figure some people....

The little fight I had recently with the "great dancer" from the south... When she made a try to explain ehy do her magazine must go on paper and not through a blog - She had one reason which was ridiculous more than other things she said. That much till I thought it's enough that I write about the fight, but going down THAT much won't fit. She said that consumers of flamenco are not big consumers of flamenco. Yeah, right.... Because of that La Reina De La Luna + has a success which is growing with time, there many more other blogs (some of them are really good, not only mine), there are so many flamenco groups at Facebook with signed members, I know so many of the community here through Facebook and the workshops which published through the internet, I keep on touch with some flamencos from here and from Spain through Facebook, the "great dancer" herself thinks that her life is so interesting for updating her Facebook profile and group all the time.... 

And let's return to numbers again: when I found out that as a blogger I can be "the big brother" and see how many people gets into the blog, from where and by now, day, week, month or 10 most of all times I was pretty shocked. I thought the trio which will start the list of all times will be Spain, Japan and Israel. So, there are people from Japan who gets in, but Japan isn't even at the list of 10. The two on the top were always USA and Russia. For a long time Spain was at the third place of all times and Israel at the fourth. For months at Germany got more entrances than Israel. After the fight - things changed again at a dramatic way. Israel, where I come from got higher to the third place of all times....

So, by the new numbers:

USA - 41595
Russia - 22903
Israel - 5420
Spain - 5398
Germany - 5221
France - 3563
Ukraine - 1761
Italy - 1156
UK - 1002
Turkey - 823


I know, it's pretty crazy of me to get into this. Still, it was too crazy to keep it to myself. And it's another way to thank again to YOU. All of my readers wherever you come from. Thank you for loving flamenco, thank you for reading my blog, thank you for being a part of progress

A photo by Yaron Segal

About the photos

Fine, so I do upload some flamenco photos of mine here as well. It doesn't mean people can do it all they think. If it's photos others took of me or I took others -  please ask first. And if I tell you can use it - please give the credit. I have a reason for writing those words now. 

Recently I went to a fiesta. Not only that I danced a bit (horrible) - I took many photos. I asked if those who organized the fiesta accept that I will publish the photos, after all - their fiesta and the're modelling at those photos. The answer was "sure". I uploaded here and I uploaded at Facebook. As far as the one of them has a fan page - she let herself share it at her page while thanking me for the photos. I believe things suppose to go this way.

Unlike this situation - I had a friend at Facebook who made more shares than uploading his own stuff. I wondered if I should stay his friend, after all I knew mostly this habit of him more than anything else. I kept him just for case he will share links for the blog. What a mistake... For a long time I had as a profile picture as my old profile from the end of year show 2012, a photo that has been taken by a friend outside Facebook. Dancing caña with a bata de cola. He shared it. Fine, at keast it's a profile picture and he made a "share" which shows it's my photo with credits for the photographer, place and show. I made it nice and wrote a comment of "isn't I'm pretty?". He never asked if I agree and just made a "like" on my comment. The photo stayed on his wall. 

Recently he asked to be my friend also at my new profile (which isn't so new any more). I wasn't sure if to agree or not. I accepted, god knows why. Last night I found out through my new profile that he uploaded again a photo of mine. This time he didn't share it. He saved on his computer a photo of last rehearsal of alegria with manton from end of year show from this summer. The cover photo of my old profile. He uploaded the photo again at his profile like it's his photo. He didn't write a thing what's in the photo, from where did he take it and who's the photographer. The "best" thing was that he didn't ask again, I found it out by mistake and the way it looks like it his photo... This time I wasn't polite. I wrote a comment of what's in the photo, it's mine, wrote the credit to the photographer... By the way I asked if he took it from my profile or from the blog. When I found it out - 4 people already signed "like" on the photo. As far as he didn't remove the photo and didn't answer it - I made a try to complain on him to Facebook. A moment after I blocked him at both profiles. I know that the photo was still there when I blocked him at the second time. 

By the way - I mean to those photos:

Caña. End of year show with the studio of Neta Shezaf. Summer 2012

Photo by Yaron Segal

Last rehearsal for alegria with manton, an hour or two before the show itslef.

End of year 2013 with the studio of Neta Shezaf

A photo by Eyal Hirsch

Till the next

Well, I have some new stories, but I guess I will do a thing or two before I will start to write about it. Till I will write the new stories... This evening starts the new Jewish year. As an Israeli who counts as a a Jew (but don't believe in God) - I guess I have to write something about it. 

So, for all the Jewish readers: happy new year! Shana Tova! 

And without a connection to any religion:

I wish you all happiness, health and creativity. May you will all have a blessed year full of flamenco

And until I will have the new photos from end of year show, those from this summer - once again a photo from end of year show 2012 with the studio of Neta Shezaf, happened at Suzanne Dellal, Tel Aviv. 
A photo by Yaron Segal

Flamenco at Caffe Gibraltar

Photos by Yaron Segal

From the show Kedma in Jerusalem

Photos by Yaron Segal