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Flamenco Fever Presents Tres Artes: Pintura, Poesia y Pasion – The Story of Forbidden Love May 11, 2024

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LIVE CHARITY AUCTION!

Please scan this QR code for the live auction of a Flamenco-themed painting created during the show!

Tonight:

Rolando Diaz, an internationally acclaimed artist, will simultaneously create a work inspired by the performance. In his efforts to raise funds for great causes, Diaz has had the opportunity to paint live with celebrities such as Amy Grant, BJ Thomas, First Lady Laura Bush, Glenn Beck, and others. Mr. Diaz was featured in the PBS documentary Recapturing Cuba: An Artist’s Journey which won two Gold Awards at Sundance Film Festival. His work as a philanthropist has supported countless non-profit organizations.

Tonight, at the end of the show, this original work will be auctioned off to the highest bidder! View his work in progress at the VIP Area during Intermission and at the conclusion of the performance. Make your bid here:

In addition to the original painting, Mr. Diaz has agreed to release a limited edition (300) Giclee prints of this work on 30” x 30” acid-free paper for $500. Flamenco Fever will receive 100% of the profit on each print.

PROGRAM

TANGOS DE GRANADA - ANCIENT SONG FROM

THE CAVES OF GRANADA

Opening scene in Federico García Lorca’s hometown.

Marcos Bastian - vocals/guitar, Luckie Abejorro - Guitar, Edmundo Urdaneta - Percussion

SEVILLANAS - FOLK DANCE

Student Company joins Professionals for a festive pre-war dance.

VENTE PA MADRID - COME TO MADRID

García Lorca moves to Madrid to attend art school Rumba medley by Ketama, with additional popular songs, features professional musicians and music students

GUAJIRA - COUNTRY GIRL

García Lorca meets his new friend La Argentinita, played by Julia Alcántara, who sings and dances for him. Salvador Dalí and García Lorca meet for the first time.

ALEGRIAS - THE DANCE OF JOY

García Lorca and Dalí explore their interest in each other. However, the critical public taunts them and they go their separate ways.

INTERMISSION

CARTAS DE AMOR / LOVE LETTERS

García Lorca sits at his desk in Granada writing to Dali. Dali, in Madrid, is painting at his easel and responds to García Lorca’s letter. García Lorca, once again at his desk, writes of his longing.

LEYENDA DEL TIEMPO - LEGEND OF TIME

Prose by García Lorca, musical composition recorded by Camaron de La Isla. Dali is at his easel as his imagination is on fire with inspiration. His desire for García Lorca is expressed in the first truly surrealist paintings.

ZORONGO GITANO - DANCE FROM THE GYPSIES OF GRANADA

Dali and García Lorca meet again in France with dark tension expressed in García Lorca’s forbidden love song Zorongo . Parisian eroticism is symbolized by a cabaret of characters, representing Dali’s new scandalous social life in Paris. García Lorca is not interested and breaks Dali’s heart when he returns to Spain rather than accept his invitation to join him and his new wife in New York City.

ANDA JALEO - ON WITH THE NOISE

García Lorca’s famous musical composition written for La Argentinita tells of the lives lost in the early battles of the Spanish Civil War. For the first time in Spanish history, airplanes are militarized for battle.

MARTINETE - THE PILEDRIVER

Knowing that Andalucia is dangerous, García Lorca returns to his family in Granada reciting the premonition of his own death. The singer embodies García Lorca’s premonition in his powerful lyrics.

SIGUIRIYAS - THE DANCE OF DEATH

García Lorca arrives in Granada and is greeted by his friend La Argentinita who tells him that the Guardia Civil is searching for him. Dancing this most profound of all the flamenco dances, they elude the Guards, until he is finally caught, and his fate is sealed.

TE QUIERO VERDE - I WANT YOU GREEN

Entire Cast

One of García Lorca’s most famous poems has been set to music by many artists over the decades. The metaphors long for the time before the war when Spain was “green” and “alive”. A funeral procession laments García Lorca’s loss, as the world grieves the murder of this brilliant artist.

Flamenco Fever’s insightful Fusion Series presents Tres Artes: Pintura, Poesia y Pasion - The Story of Forbidden Love . As part of the 23/24 season of Elevator Project at the AT&T Performing Arts Center, local students, international musicians and dancers take the stage at Strauss Square to tell the provocative history of Spain and the rise of Surrealism, the LGBTQ community, and the Fascist Franconian regime in the early 20th century. War scene pyrotechnics are provided by FemPyre.

ABOUT FLAMENCO FEVER

Flamenco Fever produces nearly 70 performances annually, each accompanied by requisite live music. This is their second Elevator Project production. The first, Memorias Flamencas , starred the legendary musician Jorge Pardo. That elaborate production put Dallas on the world map of Flamenco when the Company was invited to perform this show in the international Málaga Flamenco Festival (Málaga, Spain) in June of 2023. They were the first American company in Spanish history to be invited to perform. Hundreds of flamenco aficionados, and Spain’s top artists, enthusiastically received their performance with a standing ovation and endless compliments.

CAST BIOS

JULIA ALCANTARA - (Director/Producer as Garcia García

Lorca’s friend, La Argentinita) Julia Alcantara has been bringing the best of flamenco music and dance to North Texas since 1998. She began under DFW flamenco matriarch Conte de Loyo, and later studied in New York City and in Spain. She graduated from the finest flamenco school in the USA: The National Institute of Flamenco (NIF) in Albuquerque, NM. She was a soloist in a 90-city tour with NYC’s Romería flamenca, performed in The

Dallas Opera’s La Vida Breve , at the Palace Theater for the Performing Arts in San Francisco, and the World Cup Opening Ceremonies, Spain vs South Korea. Ms. Alcantara interpreted Ravel’s Bolero for the Irving Symphony Orchestra in their Dallas Treasures concert. She was the first and only American producer to be invited to take an entire production to the birthplace of Flamenco. Her school is the only one of its kind outside of the NIF that teaches dance, singing and guitar to elevate students to professional-level performers on stage and off.

JORGE ROBLEDO

- (Bailaor (male dancer) as Federico García Lorca) Jorge Robledo, who resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has been principal dancer for numerous performances in Spain and around the world. He has created and choreographed his own shows, including Latidos, Flamenco Entre Amigos , and Encuentro Flamenco . As a youth, he studied Spanish dance, classical ballet, jazz, and modern dance. He later studied flamenco and classical Spanish dance in Spain and in the U.S. with such prominent dancers as Antonio Canales, Belén Maya, Antonio Granjero, Juana Amaya, and Nacho Blanco. Mr. Robledo was professor of dance for several years at the Vladimir Issaev School of Classical Ballet and the Roxy Theatre Group, both in Miami, Florida.

JOSEPH GONZALES

- (Bailaor as Salvador Dali)

Joseph Gonzales was born in Albuquerque, NM. He studied percussion in high school and entered into the flamenco world during his college years at the University of New Mexico. During his time at the university, he studied dance, theory, and history. It was then he became deeply connected to the flamenco community and his own ancestral Spanish roots. Mr. Gonzales has performed with Ida y Vuelta Flamenco numerous times since 1997 and his talents have since taken him across the USA, dancing ballroom, ballet, and country/western. He has competed and performed all over the United States and is currently ranked third in the world with his professional dance partner, Brenda Lamon.

MARCOS BASTIAN - (Singer/Guitarist)

Marcos Bastian was born in Seville, Spain, into a family of flamenco artists. At the age of 8, he entered the Alcalá de Guadaíra Conservatory to study classical music. He holds an intermediate degree as a cantaor at the Cristóbal de Morales Conservatory and has worked throughout Spain since he was 15 years old in tablaos theaters. He has toured across Spain, Europe and the Middle East, and performed in Finland and Dubai with the artists La Tania, David El Galli, Antonio Marseille, and Ezequiel Reina

LUCKIE ABEJORRO - (Guitar, Cajón

and Baile)

Luckie Abejorro is a key artistic supporter of Flamenco Fever. His experience as a musician covers more than 20 years of guitar, bass and hand percussion. Since 2015, he has learned the basics of each type of flamenco palo by accompanying the dancers on cajón. Then, after dancing himself for 5 years, he dove into guitar with the various guest artists that have come to teach over the years. After nine years of study, he made his debut last year as Dallas’ newest flamenco guitarist accompanying singing and dancing for Sevillanas, Tangos, Alegrias, Tientos, Guajira and various Villancicos for the Christmas Season.

EDMUNDO URDANETA - (Percussion)

Edmundo Urdaneta is a Venezuelan percussionist born in Maracaibo, of Basque descent, with over 10 years of experience in the music industry. He ventured into the world of flamenco through the Flamenco Dance School La Romeria, led by its director Paola Nava. Since then, he has accompanied Venezuelan musicians and dancers like Paola Nava, Mela Fuentes, Leo Urdaneta, Jose Alirio Chirinos, Oscar Castellano, Belimar Ramirez, and Pedro Chacon El Colita. He has performed on various stages in Miami, Orlando, and Dallas with Spanish flamenco artists such as Raquel Heredia, Jose Manuel Alconchel and Paco de Andrea. He is currently based in Dallas, TX, and is the newest member of the Flamenco Fever team.

Pyrotechnics by FemPyre

Brianna Apsara performs a variety of circus acts including stilts, LED, and fire manipulation. She makes custom costumes and has a performance collective Go Glow DFW which performs regularly across Dallas-Ft. Worth. She works with the Dallas Fire Department to include fire performance and special effects in our Flamenco production Tres Artes. She began in childhood as a dance student and making costumes for her dolls, and while the interests never changed, the scale of projects did. Her unique skill set enables her and collaborative artists to produce one-of-a-kind productions for Dallas.

FIRE PERFORMERS

Brianna Apsara - Fire Fans, Skirt, Stilts, and Fire Breathing

Ron Dyer - Fire Breathing, Arturo Garza - Fire Staff

Patrick Thomas - Fire Whip and Fire Breather

STUDENT COMPANY

Charmaine Wood

Colleen Martindale

Monica Velasco

Abraham Villa Queta Cantu

Jody Gilbertson

NEW STUDENTS - EXTRA - CABARET

Leader - Jennifer Boren

Esther Gonzales

Rini Bose-Kar

Maria Casteneda

Brianna Apsara

STUDENT MUSICIANS

Chris Perella - Guitar

Sanjay Abraham - Guitar

Kevin Acosta - Vocals

Casidy Castillo - Vocals

TECHNICIANS

Lighting Designer - Joel Olivas

Sound - Ethan Crumrine

STAGE HANDS

Arturo Garza

Christian Carlson

Kevin Acosta

VOLUNTEERS Guards

Chris Perella

Ashton Cherry

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS

Brad Nace, Margaret McCoin, Hector Garcia, Charmaine Wood

Join us for our Flamenco Appreciation Tour to Spain!

Tour Madrid, Granada and Malaga, November 8 - 17, 2024 ! To register or for more information, contact Andrea Wilson at RevealExperience@gmail.com or call 505-933-5911

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