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+ Flamenco
Dance Classes with + David
Jenkins + Virginia
Iglesias Wednesdays Saturdays & Mondays
at the Link: www.flamenco-academy.com + Upcoming
Workshops with + FLAMENCO
DANCE CLASSES Tuesdays Wednesdays Saturdays Contact
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FEATURED SHOW
“Imagenes Flamencas” New program incorporates the paintings of local artist Roberto Zamora and features guest performers from Spain Thursday,
October 19th, 8pm
Saturday, October 21st, 8 pm – Sunday October 22nd, 3 pm The passion and gusto of Flamenco will resonate throughout the senses in Imagenes Flamencas (Flamenco Images), the debut production for the 2006 fall season from Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos, a Bay Area-based company lauded as one of the creative leaders in the art of Flamenco dance. Seizing the sights and sounds of the beloved dance turned art form, Imagenes… poetically intertwines the Emmy-Award winning choreography of Yaelisa with Bay Area artist Roberto Zamora’s paintings in multi-media display to create a captivating program. The sensual imagery of Flamenco will be uniquely captured as Zamora ’s art work is translated through music and dance. Returning with an all-star cast including guest performers from Spain , Yaelisa invites the audience to take a journey through the world of traditional Flamenco in a way you’ve never experienced before. The enthralling Imagenes Flamencas will open the 2006 season with performances on THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19TH (Veteran’s Memorial Theater, Davis) and will follow with two performances on SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21ST AND 22ND (Cowell Theater, Fort Mason). For more information visit www.caminosflamencos.com “The term ‘imagenes’ in Spanish carries such poignancy that it was the perfect choice to describe the beauty and complexity of this production,” says Yaelisa , founder and artistic director. “It is so dynamic in its definition- especially in Spanish, that the profundity of the title gets lost in translation. With all these elements working together, Flamenco will just reach out and grab you, and that is what we wanted to achieve.” ART
BY ROBERTO ZAMORA : Juan Ogalla (Guest Dancer) made his professional debut in 1983 at the age of 11 in "Las Calles de Cai" at the Gran Teatro Falla de Cádiz in Cádiz , Spain . Since that time, he has toured the world appearing with many of Spain 's finest artists including Christina Hoyos, Manuel Morao, Maria Pagés and Beatriz Martin. In 2001, Juan collaborated with producer Olympia Estrella in the production of "Flamenco Blue Impressions," a blending of tap, jazz and Flamenco, at the 42nd Street Theater in New York which received rave reviews. Felix de Lola, Flamenco singer from Sevilla , Spain began his singing with the Campallo family and went on to study with the renowned singers Jesus Heredia and Naranjito de Triana. Felix composes music and verses for Flamenco song and composes theatrical works and musical adaptations for Flamenco Theater. In Costa Rica he is recognized as a leading exponent of Flamenco. Manuel de la Malena was born in Jerez de la Frontera into a gypsy family where he learned to sing listening to his grandmother “La Malena,” a well-known singer from Lebrija. Manuel is a descendant of “Tío Luis el de la Juliana,” one of the creators of Flamenco singing. Throughout his career, Manuel has won many singing competitions in Spain and France , winning first prizes at festivals. He has performed with some of Spain ’s most important singers including Camarón, Tío Borrico, Antonio Mairena and Sordera. Pedro Cortes comes from a family of Spanish Gypsy guitarists and began his studies with his father and the esteemed Flamenco guitarist Sabicas. Having toured professionally since the age of 17, he is gaining international recognition as a soloist and composer. He has premiered his work En la oscuridad de las Minas at the Teatro Albeniz in Madrid , and in 1992 he had works premiered by the Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company at the Joyce Theater in New York . He has two books on Flamenco, El Dron del Faraon and Cruzando el Charco, published by the American Institute of Guitar. Flamenco guitarist/Music Director Jason McGuire “El Rubio” began playing at the age of nine. In 1995 Jason recorded with famed Gypsy guitarist Carlos Heredia on his CD "Gypsy Flamenco," and released a recording of his own composition "Distancias" in 2005, which has received unanimous critical praise. Jason has been awarded a California Arts Council Music Fellowship and has been nominated twice for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award. Yaelisa is the founder of Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos and is one of the most gifted Flamenco artists of her generation. Raised by a Spanish Flamenco artist, she was surrounded from birth by the rhythms, gestures and vocal laments of the art in its purest form, where her unique improvisational abilities began to flourish. She has performed with many of Spain’s finest artists, including Alejandro Granados, Antonio “El Pipa,” Manuel and Antonio Malena, Domingo Ortega, Enrique “El Extremeno,” Yeye de Cádiz, Mateo Soleá, and others. She is the recipient of an Emmy Award for Choreography in 1993 for the PBS program, "Desde Cádiz a Sevilla," and an NEA Choreography Fellowship. Entering its sixth successful year, she continues to present her work and those of emerging artists each month at the ODC Cafe Flamenco Series at the ODC Theater. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the internationally renowned New World Flamenco Festival presented every year at the Irvine Barclay Theater in Irvine , California ; she was the only American choreographer among 11 chosen to present her choreography at the prestigious Certámen de Coreografia in Madrid . In 2005, Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos received an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for excellence in the category of “Best Company Performance” for Mujeres. In
August 2006, Yaelisa directed “Sin Fronteras,” a highlight
program of the New World Flamenco Festival at the Irvine Barclay Theater,
which featured her collaboration with Tony Award-winning dancer Savion
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Aug - Oct The paintings on display at the Thirsty Bear's Flamenco Room carry a part of flamenco through painting. The Landscape of the Seguiriyas series is an exploration of the psychological landscape of flamenco’s deep song of lament. The seguiriyas, as Paco Sevilla writes in his book “Queen of the Gypsies”, is flamenco’s most profound song. Flamenco and bullfight cultural icons such as the ghostly bullhorns of the bullfight, or the anvil of the Romani (gypsy) blacksmiths are used in these paintings to visually sing a seguiriyas. The Morao y Oro series looks to a lighter side of flamenco, the dress of a spinning dancer, the flowers of a fiesta, the chairs where your friends and family come and go, to sit and play. See more of the artists' work at jasonengelund.com. +
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Nov 10 + SF
Flamenco Back Issues + Flamenco Nightlife Carola
Zertuche Presents Every
Thursday 8:00pm and 9:30pm at
PEÑA PACHAMAMA. $8 cover charge. DISCOUNT!
Mention The Bay Area Flamenco Partnership or La
Nina Productions and pay only $5. Great Latin
American food available. Dining not required.
1630 Powell st. between Union & Green,
North Beach, San Francisco
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~ Flamenco News ~ The
Flamenco Shop + ABC-7
KGO TV has chosen Yaelisa to be featured on its program entitled + Award
Winning Artistic Director, Carolina Lugo has been honored to receive the
Prestigious 2006 AC5 Arts and Culture Award from the Arts and Culture
Commission of Contra Costa County on Sunday, October 22, 2006, for her
outstanding contribution to the arts and culture and the significant impact
that she has had over a prolonged period on the county and in her community. |
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