“What I enjoy most is to spend time with my two great passions: dancing flamenco and writing.”

In the morning, to wake up to the aroma of good coffee is the best omen of the day to come. The coffee must be strong, consistent, of good grain and made in an Italian coffee maker. A little frothed milk, a piece of sweet bread, and from then on, everything flows. I like to go for a run to release tension, to stop thoughts, to see the mountains, to reach the goal. Once I have calmed my body and mind, what I enjoy most is to spend time with to my two great passions: dancing flamenco and writing. 

Flamenco gives me a daily injection of adrenaline. The movement is pure art and I enjoy the physical challenge and intensity of the dance. I believe my passion goes back to an ancestral gene from my Sephardic origin. My ancestors were Spanish Jews and I feel there is some ancient force urging me on to dance the flamenco. The movement, the music, the sweat of my body make me come alive. I love teaching, performing a new choreography or rehearsing with my colleagues. I love listening to the singing and contemplating the history and nuances of the dance. There is deep meaning in this art that gives new life to the lives and the legends of a people as unique as the gypsies. Flamenco is a mixture of joy, sadness, love, heartbreak, life and death. Here, in San Miguel de Allende, I have had the good fortune to be able to express all this freely through my art and share it with others.

Reading is my other passion. Since I was a child, I have found myself mesmerized by books. As each book passed through my hands, I began to live other lives and to think of the world differently. I fell so madly in love with literature that I later turned it into my profession. I am director of Libros del Zorro Rojo Mexico, a Spanish publishing house dedicated to illustrated books where I also work as an editor. Reading made me travel in the metaphorical sense but, as the years passed, my passion enabled me to travel in the literal sense. I spent seven years in Spain, first in a Master’s Degree in Book Publishing and then working as an editor. Today, I see a book as ritual, inspiration, refuge, adventure, sustenance. What I enjoy most is to create and to build stories through words. The most beautiful part of my day is to achieve that moment of solitude, silence and introspection in order to write. There is nothing comparable to the miracle of creating something from nothing. My first novel, “La llama Negra,” brought me to this beautiful town for the first time. Now I am publishing “Cuerda Floja,” a serialized novel in “Vanidades Magazine.” 

A great day cannot end without a glass of wine or an ice-cold beer on a warm evening. Watching a beautiful sunset with my partner, contemplating the sun, like a ball of red-hot lava, slowly melting through the clouds casting thin threads that form a halo of light. In San Miguel de Allende, the sky bleeds in shades of red, orange, yellow and purple. It is a great canvas made with the vastness of the universe. Is there any painter capable of recreating such beauty? Sharing this beautiful experience is the key to any day that wants to call itself perfect.