Wendsday I had a private class with Gabriel and a young argentine lady named Melissa who is learning with us.





Here are pics on the street prior to my lesson.























Gabriel's concepts are so overarching, they effect everything that I do. For example, the first part of the class was concentrating on skin. Perhaps you can imagine what your body would be like if instead of muscles and bones, the skin was a containing structure for some kind of fluid. If your skin moved and you couldn't articulate your body so precisely, how would you move? What would it be like to be full of sand instead? Or mercury? The whole point is to use the body entirely, but to have an energy representative of some musical passage. Gabriel also worked on breathing concepts with musicality, which really effect everything.














Afterwards, I went to go buy a cake at a confiteria about two blocks away. I am flabbergasted at the prices here, it was 11 pesos for a dulce de leche cake, with nuts on the side, hard chocolate on the top, and layered flaky breading with dulce de leche in between some layers. Not only would such a cake cost at least 25 bucks in the US, the interchange of cash makes it like $3.50.