This prologue was first published on 18 September 2026. The intention to write weekly reflects the author's plan at that time.
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Between Andalusia and Japan
Until now, this space has held moments from my life, travels, flamenco, and things that have happened around BG Flamenco Academy.
Starting today, I want to give them a new meaning.
I don’t want each story to end up as an isolated post. I want to bring them together little by little, like the pages of a single work.
I want to write this blog as a book that is still alive.
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Not writing a life that is already complete
I grew up in Córdoba, discovered flamenco, and came to Japan when I was very young.
Over all these years, I have danced, taught, started a family, made mistakes, learned, built an academy, and met so many people.
Now I am also trying to organize and preserve what I have learned: the BG Método, class records, videos, archives, ideas that have emerged over the years, and everything we continue to build around BG Flamenco Academy and AL ANDALUS.
But this book will not be only about work.
It will also include Córdoba, Japan, travel, family, my roots, being a father, the passage of time, what I miss, and those little things that suddenly help me understand more clearly who I am.
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A chapter every week
As a general rule, I will add a new chapter each week.
Sometimes it will grow out of an actual class. Other times, out of an old document, a trip, a project we are building, or a memory that suddenly makes sense again.
I will not necessarily follow a chronological order.
A class today might take me back to a story from thirty years ago; a memory of Córdoba might explain something I currently teach in Tokyo.
That is how memory works, too.
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I am not going to manufacture a life just to have content
I don’t want to do things just so I can write about them.
I want to do my work and live my life, and for us to recognize, among everything that really happens, what is worth preserving.
The sources will be real: classes, class records, archives, writings, projects, my calendar, documented memories, and experiences that have actually happened.
Technology will help organize and connect that material, but the story will remain human.
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I also want to preserve the difficult paths
A biography made up only of successes may look nice, but it does not truly tell the story of a life.
I also want to preserve the doubts, the changes of mind, the wrong turns, the things that did not go as I expected, and what I only understood many years later.
Because very often, that is precisely where learning happens.
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Between Andalusia and Japan
I have spent much of my life between two cultures.
I don’t feel that I have to choose one and abandon the other.
Much of who I am today lies precisely in the space between Andalusia and Japan.
That is what I want to tell here.
I don’t know how many chapters this book will have. Perhaps in a few years we will be able to look at it as a whole and discover that, without realizing it, we have written an entire story.
This is the first page of that new stage.
— Benito García
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