Thursday evening mixed-level Flamenco Bulerías dance class from 6:30 – 8:00 PM.

The class will have live music.

We will be working with palmas and understanding and recognizing the Bulerias rhythms, as well as with the dance itself.

The class will include technique and will be focused on fiesta style Bulerías.


Cost: $60/4-week consecutive session or $20/drop-in. To register: call or email us or send note on Facebook.

Location: Flamenco Romantico Poolside studio     Hidden Valley Road, Soquel, (Santa Cruz county) CA 95073     (831) 477-2825

Olé Flamenco,

Marianna and Federico "Freddie" Mejia

NO CLASSES BETWEEN April 11 and July 27, 2010

SO TAKE YOUR CLASSES NOW

IN FEBRUARY, MARCH & THE 1ST PART OF APRIL !!!!

We’re returning to Sevilla, Spain April 12, 2010 and will return to Santa Cruz by the end of July.

NO CLASSES BETWEEN April 11 and July 27, 2010

NO WEDNESDAY SOLEA CLASS ON WEDNESDAY MARCH 10, 2010

SO TAKE YOUR CLASSES NOW

IN FEBRUARY, MARCH & THE 1ST PART OF APRIL !!!!

We’re returning to Sevilla, Spain April 12, 2010 and will return to Santa Cruz by the end of July.

BULERIAS Class on Saturdays   11 AM - 12:30 PM with live music

Technique, Bulerías Dance & Palmas Class – to live music
Multi-level – includes beginners

The Bulerías class is appropriate for beginners as well as more advanced students. Emphasis on learning the compás (rhythm) and on good technique.

Learn how to dance Flamenco Gypsy Bulerías at parties and feel comfortable when you are doing it. !

BULERÍAS Class THURSDAY Evenings 2009     6:30-8 PM - Start any time  - Live music

Technique, Bulerías Dance & Palmas Class – to live music

Multi-level – includes beginners

The Bulerías class is appropriate for beginners as well as more advanced students. Emphasis on learning the compás (rhythm) and on good technique.

Learn how to dance Flamenco Gypsy Bulerías at parties and feel comfortable when you are doing it!

SOLEA on Wednesday Evenings  2009 6:30-8PM to live music with singing

Technique, Soleá Dance & Palmas Class – to live music

The Soleá class will continue work on Concha Vargas' choreography of the  Soleá, reviewing the first letra and second letras, adding the ending Bulerías. Lots of technique.

The Soleá class will continue work on Concha Vargas' choreography of the  Soleá, reviewing the first letra and second letras, adding the ending Bulerías. Lots of technique.
$60 for the 4-week session or $20 drop-in fee.

Wednesday   6:30-8 PM  Solea – Intermediate/Advanced Soleá
Thursday  6:30-8 PM  Beginner & Intermediate Bulerías
Saturday  11:00 AM-12:30  Beginner & Intermediate Bulerías

All our group Flamenco Dance classes have live music.

$60/4 week consecutive session or $20/class drop-in                 Multi-level classes.  

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Email us HERE .  Or call for more information (831) 477-2825
Hope to see you at all the classes,
Marianna and Freddie Mejia, Flamenco Romántico

Comments from our Flamenco students

"Thank you so much again for the beautiful gifts from Spain.  You are a wonderful teacher and a beautiful soul!  Tonight was great - Óle!!  XOXOXO." 9/09  Daniella S.

"Flamenco class truly feeds my soul.”     Marcie W.

“I’m loving your classes – there is so much to work on, and it’s a good (safe) place to grow.  Everyone – you, Freddie, James, Aaron – you all know so much and are so supportive.  I am looking forward to joining the Wednesday group.”     Daniella S.

“Marianna,
Hi! Thank you soooo much for yesterday's class! It was PERFECT!!!”     Amanda S.

“Dear Marianna,
Thank you for your warm welcome to this amazing form of expression.  It is very special for me and I can hardly wait for next week. I am intending to come. It feels so much like part of my healing journey.  
When I was a child my father brought back a Flamenco 'outfit' from Spain, a ruffled dress with large white circles on a red ground, a mantilla and castanets. I would dress myself in this and imagine dancing. I was a shy child and yet somehow this resonated with me.  Going to Spain with my family on holiday I felt strangely at home, not the little 'English' girl I seemed to be.
I wondered if my daughter's attraction to Flamenco came through me, through something I had never explored in myself. In the last seven years or so I became fascinated with Sephardic music and song, the legacy of the Jews of Spain and Portugal. It has a similar soul to Flamenco and they share common roots, Moorish and Gypsy. I even wonder if my Romanian grandfather was descended from Sephardic Jews.  His parents were buried in Spain and we do not know why.
In traveling this path with cancer I try to listen to the  
'grandmothers', to my intuition about where healing lies. Sometimes their instructions are so simple, what to eat or who to call as an ally. It felt so right to be there in your beautiful studio yesterday. Your teaching was so whole and I am amazed that I left having a real sense in my body of some of the pieces that weave into this dance form, this prayer form. I am smiling as I write this and grateful and glad. My body and soul thank you.
Blessings,”      Alison/Alie

“Hi Marianna,
What a great class last night – thank you so much.  I’m really liking Wednesdays...”     Daniella S.

“Hi!  It was great to see you both again, and dance!  I really had fun, although my toes feel hammered.  Freddy looks remarkably well and is back to criticizing all of us, so he can only be on the mend.”  Paula R.


“… there are things I definitely miss about your classes. That's why I'm writing to you, to tell you, I believe I WILL be back in your studio … in the future.
…  p.s. We started working on Bulerias today, and it was almost too easy for me! Thanks to you, Federico, and the other musicians at your studio, of course. As soon as she clapped out the first measure, I remembered it instantly and effortlessley, much to my delight and surprise”!     ~ Diana N.

In Spain, in the Gypsy tradition, Flamenco is a family affair and everyone participates.

Because Federico and I teach together and know how wonderful it can be when a couple and or family shares a similar interest/passion, we have created a format to help couples and families grow in Flamenco together, even if only one member dances. Guitarists and dancers alike, as well as “aficionados”, need to know and understand the compás (the rhythm with its accents). There are also roles in Flamenco for "just" doing the palmas (important hand clapping rhythm). If a student already plays some guitar he or she can learn the dance accompaniment in this class. A beginner might want to study privately until she/he can do chord changes, etc. However, beginners can get a lot out of the class learning the palmas and the compás, even if they don’t ever dance. This is the backbone of Flamenco.