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Album:2015:01-09 Barcelona
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I get a 3 month residency teaching at Swing Maniacs in Barcelona. So we pack up and head out to Barcelona, which turns out to be lots of fun, though it's some transition to start teaching weekly classes instead of workshops. The differences are pretty enormous and it becomes an interesting teaching challenge.
Either way, we fall very much in love with the city and will definitely be back.
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Swing Maniacs Semester Instructors
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The guest instructors
Mindaugus, Dave, Davis & Claudia & their little one, and Arielle ( comments)
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Sipping some Fanta limon
near the Arc D'Triomphe ( comments)
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Our street to the left
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Our street to the right
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Outside our back window
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Working in the kitchen
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Walking around Barcelona
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A strange nowhere runway
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A good place to collapse
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Arielle in a little doorway
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instructor demo
with Lucile P. ( comments)
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We start playing bananagrams
And things get dirty in some of our games.This one was memorable, because DHDP! Double-hymen, double-penis! ( comments)
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The beautiful streets
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Dr Pepper in Spain!?
How exciting.. but then the tagline is foreshadowing: "What's the worst that could happen"Seriously?And it turns out that Dr. Pepper made in GB uses fake sugars. Ugh! That's the worst that could happen! ( comments)
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At the beach
with my love ( comments)
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Nice long sandy beach
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The water
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Enjoying the wind
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DaveBeach
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Arielle jumps
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The view
from the hill near our place ( comments)
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The city
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Double Arielle!
Panoramic action.(And maybe a bit of a fantasy... :) ( comments)
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Working in the front room
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Waiting for the subway
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Kissing my love
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Yum
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Posing
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Posing
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Long bridge span
where Arielle does one of her travel dance diaries ( comments)
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She looks like she's going to jump
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Dancing
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Climbing
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Hanging
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Growing into daddy's shoes
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Dog protecting his wall
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Huge swing party
(Barcelona style) ( comments)
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Barcelona dance party
Arielle dances with Aitor. [Video, 18.7M] ( comments)
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The band
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Arielle dancing blur
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Arielle dancing with Aitor
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Arielle dancing with Aitor
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Adorable resting dog
relaxing outside a Barcelona pub waiting for his person. ( comments)
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We come across a mad celebration
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Pagans walk the streets
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With loud, homemade fireworks
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Spinning sparks...
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...and loud explosions.
Somehow, nobody gets (badly) hurt. ( comments)
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Explosions!
[Video, 13.1M] ( comments)
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Dragons!
[Video, 20.1M] ( comments)
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Drums!
[Video, 19.5M] ( comments)
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Madness!
[Video, 15.6M] ( comments)
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Gargoyles for Arielle
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Arielle hides into a wall
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Synthesis? Quaalude? Bifurcating!?
Our Bananagram games are getting serious. ( comments)
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Magnificent buildings
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At the Arch
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Waiting for the subway
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Kenyon visits!
And we take her to the most excellent Juicy Jones ( comments)
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Hanging out with Kenyon
at the beach ( comments)
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This is one of the
greatest doors ever made. ( comments)
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We babysit
for Claudia and Davis ( comments)
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Arielle making friends with Sidney
and puppy Jefferson ( comments)
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Poof! Sid & Jefferson out cold.
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Nuria does a photoshoot
This is my favorite (and I picked the location!) ( comments)
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Photoshoot
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Photoshoot
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Photoshoot
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Photoshoot
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Photoshoot
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Sunset along the skyline
near the photoshoot ( comments)
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Walking back into the city
from the photoshoot ( comments)
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We practice our theatre hitch kick!
[Video, 5.7M] ( comments)
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Little wild parakeets,
live in the tree at this street corner. ( comments)
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That gov't building in the center
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Arielle makes some art
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Okay, so..
this wasn't a real Banagrams game, but it's based on one which had a Diet/Duet grid of about four words, and we decided to continue the symmetrical pattern for fun. It looks like a Strawberry! ( comments)
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Important gov't-ish place
in Barcelona ( comments)
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And our first video
[Video, 7.2M] ( comments)
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And Arielle teaches me about aperture.
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JP visits!
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Amazing light at Placa Catalunya
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The Placa Catalunya towers
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Arielle prepping for
a dance diary moment ( comments)
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Dave walks the streets.
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"So, when we look at this photo later..
is it cool if it looks like I'm picking your nose?" ( comments)
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I find improv in Barcelona!!
Sadly I waited until the end of our 3 month stay or else I could have been doing weekly improv! ( comments)
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A little stage for an improv jam
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Barcelona improvisers
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Little piggie nose
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Directing a scene
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Like conducting
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182 ___ walk into a bar
Except they play 185. And they don't do the full script - and it seems most of the players don't know the game. So it's an interesting result. [Video, 42.3M] ( comments)
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"What you got?!"
A great run with my first contender, and he has a good one so I take the fall. :) [Video, 46.1M] ( comments)
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Arielle goes up on s.. for the first time!
The question game, which she knows! But her competition falters and she doesn't even get to go! [Video, 30.5M] ( comments)
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My beautiful love
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Walls
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And epic walls
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Inside the church
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(in the Gothic Barrio)
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Arielle walking the streets..
(and looking like she's walking the streets ;) ( comments)
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Aperature!
Out playing with the new camera. ( comments)
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Ghost car
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The beautiful view
from our apartment's back windows. ( comments)
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We make art!
This is mine. Our fortress, a place of safety. (This was before we learned that we did not get the 1 acre of land we put an offer on in New Orleans). ( comments)
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And we make a poster
for the two of us. ( comments)
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First attempts at a ring design
for Arielle's engagement ring (with CZ and clay) ( comments)
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Arielle adds some fanciness.
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Arielle runs a creativity workshop,
and this is my work for one of the assignments - take a photo with a figurine. ( comments)
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My alternate photo
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..Then we have to write a story.
Here's my sad story about Morty C the cow. ( comments)
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[Video, 30.8M] ( comments)
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April Fools
[Video, 54.3M] ( comments)
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April Fools sub
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