Dear Flamenco Community
It is with much sadness that we learn Maclovia Ruiz has passed. She has done so much for the San Francisco Bay Area Flamenco and dance arts. She was the first woman of color dancer in a major American ballet company. You may find her own story published through the oral history Legacy Project at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum. For more information please click here: Maclovia Ruiz.
Photo by Maurice Seymour used with the permission of photographer Ron Seymour.

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La Tania
Flamenco Dance Class

Fridays March 10 ~ May 12, 2006
5:30 - 6:30 pm Beginning/Intermediate Technique
6:30 - 7:30 pm Intermediate Choreography (Alegrias)

Mondays (substituting for Monica' s Int/Adv class)
March 13 ~ May 15, 2006
8 - 9 pm Intermediate/Advanced Choreography (Solea)
To register for Monday classes contact Monica: Email: MoBermudez@aol.com or call (415) 330-9075

"Bata de Cola" Workshop (dates tba) For more info E-mail agglasner@yahoo.com Tel: 510-559-9077

For more information and to register for Friday classes
E-mail: latania@latania.org or call 415-793-0939

San Francisco Dance Center
26, 7Th Street at Market, 5Th Floor

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David Jenkins
Flamenco Event Bookings
and Guitar Instruction

Imbue your event with the passionate colors and sepia ambience of Flamenco. Enjoy the Rhapsody of Flamenco’s Mysterious Tributaries from its: East Indian, Baroque, Moroccan, Andalusian, Cuban & Jazz Origins. Link

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Carolina Lugo
2006 Workshops

Jan 4 ~ March 29
Wed 5:45-7:15 PM & Sat 4-5:30 PM
NEW! RECREATIONAL FLAMENCO CLASSES for men & women, all levels, singles or couples. A different way to exercise while learning a popular dance from Spain called "Sevillanas"
For registration, other classes, studio locations, class fees email: carolinalugo1@msn.com or LINK: www.carolinalugo.com

FEATURED SHOW

NOCHE FLAMENCA

CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS MADRID’S ACCLAIMED NOCHE FLAMENCA FEBRUARY 18 & 19, AT ZELLERBACH HALL

WINNER OF THE 2004 LUCILLE LORTEL AWARD FOR UNIQUE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE

One of the world’s foremost flamenco companies and a sensation in its 2000 Bay Area debut and its return engagement in 2003, Noche Flamenca takes the stage at Cal Performances’ Zellerbach Hall on Saturday, February 18 at 8:00 p.m. & Sunday, February 19 at 7:00 p.m. Noche Flamenca’s appearance is part of Celebración de las Culturas de Iberoamérica, Cal Performances’ programming initiative to bring the performing arts of Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean to Bay Area audiences. Hailed by The New York Times as “a soul-stirring tour-de-force of theater,” Noche Flamenca captures the essence, purity of form and emotional fire that has made the company one of Spain’s most successful ensembles. Founded in 1993 by Artistic Director Martin Santangelo and leading dancer and Bessie Award-winner Soledad Barrio, the Madrid-based ensemble has quickly become one of the most sought after dance companies in the world, and one that delivers the “fully felt emotional expression of the soul that pure flamenco demands” (The Washington Post). In addition to Barrio, the company features dancers Isabel Bayon, Antonio Rodriguez Jimenez “El Chupete” and Juan Ogalla; guitarists Jesus Torres and Eugenio Iglesias; and singers Manuel Gago and Antonio Campos. In keeping with the company’s matchless quality, Noche Flaminca won the 2004 Lucille Lortel award for Unique Theatrical Experience.

NOCHE FLAMENCA
The uniqueness of Noche Flamenca emanates from the combination of extraordinary guitarists, singers and dancers who perform together with a communal spirit and a deep understanding of flamenco. Their talents are interwoven and given equal weight, in an artistic vision developed by Santangelo and Barrio. The performers offer dance works of rich dramatic substance and top-rank virtuosity that reveal the true heart and soul of flamenco. In its international touring, the ensemble has won accolades around the world, with standing ovations in Egypt, the United States, Canada, Portugal and Spain. Some of Spain’s most renowned artists such as Belen Maya, Alejandro Granados, Antonio Vizarraga, Rafael “Falo” Jimenez, and David Serva have worked, and continue to work, with the company. Noche Flamenca is “a miracle, the answer to the question of where the excitement, the grit, the lacerating intimacy and the professionalism went in Spanish dance,” commented the San Francisco Examiner.

THE ARTISTS
Martin Santangelo, co-founder of Noche Flamenca, is a resident of Madrid. A student of Ciro, Paco Romero, el Guito, Manolete and Alejandro Granados, he has performed throughout Spain and the United States with Maria Benitez’s Teatro Flamenco, at the Lincoln Center Festival of the Arts and with Paco Romero’s Ballet Español. He also appeared in and choreographed a solo for Julie Taymor’s Juan Darien at Lincoln Center. Santangelo choreographed Romeo and Juliette at the Denver Theater Center and co-directed and choreographed Bodas de Sangre with Larry Kornfield at SUNY Purchase. Santangelo, who was born and raised in New York’s Greenwich Village, was exposed to dance by his Argentine mother, a dancer with Alwin Nikolais. As a young man, he studied acting at New York University, then moved to San Francisco, joining El Teatro Campesino. While with the theater company he happened to fill in for an actor in a flamenco performance and became captivated by the dance. He soon left the United States for Madrid, to pursue flamenco studies there.

The co-founder of Noche Flamenco, Soledad Barrio, has been described by George C. Wolfe, former Artistic Director of New York’s Joseph Papp Public Theater, as “a once-in-a-lifetime performer who combines overwhelming physicality and spirituality.” She was born in Madrid and trained in flamenco and Clasico Español. Barrio has appeared as soloist with the Ballet Español of Paco Romero, Manuela Vargas, Blanca del Rey, Luisillo, El Guito, Manolete, Cristobal Reyes, and Toleo. In 2001, Barrio was named the winner of a New York Dance & Performance Award (a.k.a. the “Bessie”) for Outstanding Creative Achievement. She is married to Artistic Director Martin Santangelo, with two daughters, Gabriela and Stella. Of the fiery intensity of Barrio, Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times stated, “[She] seemed possessed by smoldering, do-or-die flamenco passion…An entire evening of her dancing would probably fill the city’s coronary wards.”

TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for Noche Flamenca on Saturday, February 18 at 8:00 p.m. & Sunday, February 19 at 7:00 p.m. in Zellerbach Hall are priced at $24.00, $36.00 and $48.00. Tickets are available through the Cal Performances Ticket Office at Zellerbach Hall; at (510) 642-9988 to charge by phone; at www.calperfs.berkeley.edu; and at the door. Half-price tickets are available for purchase by UC Berkeley students. UC faculty and staff, senior citizens and other students receive a $2 discount. The Ticket Office will be closed weekends beginning June through August 2003. For more information, call Cal Performances at (510) 642-9988, or visit the Cal Performances web site at www.calperfs.berkeley.edu.

Cal Performances’ 2005/06 Centennial Season is sponsored by
Wells Fargo.
The Contra Costa Times and Classical 102.1 KDFC are season media sponsors of the 2005/06 performing arts season.

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SF Flamenco is an online community center and magazine working to support and showcase the entire flamenco community in the greater San Francisco Bay Area by providing a promotional media interface representing flamenco culture, arts and artists to facilitate public awareness and understanding. This California on-line flamenco magazine, includes event listings, an artist directory, flamenco artist support and resources, historical and education resources, art, nightlife and resources on local, U.S.A., Spanish and international flamenco art and culture. If you are a local flamenco performer, find out about the free Feature Articles, and Performer's Network. Site created as a community arts project by Jason Engelund, El Pintor.