SAT OCT 24 2015
Paco Peña CHAN CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
“I wanted a basic, very
true flamenco company. That’s why I picked up the people to just do that, to be honest on stage, to improvise on stage”
- Paco Peña (CBC’s Q, 2013)
Paco Peña: Flamencura Presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Pre-show talk
7:15pm, Royal Bank Cinema Flamenco and the Diasporic Soul With UBC’s Dr. Arianna Dagnino
Concert
8:00pm, Chan Shun Concert Hall
Paco Peña guitar Francisco Arriaga guitar Rafael Montilla guitar Angel Muñoz dance Yolanda Osuna Linares dance Ignacio Lopez percussion Inmaculada Rivero vocals Bernardo Miranda Luna vocals
Program - Flamencura
Verdiales Guitarra Solista Soleá Tientos Petenera intermission (20 minutes)
Martinete Alegrías Granaína Soleá Fandangos Devised by Paco Peña. Original Music by Paco Peña, Paco Arriaga & Rafael Montilla. Choreography by Fernando Romero, Angel Muñoz & Carmen ‘La Talegona’. Costume Design by Linda Rowell & Elvira Peña. Original Lighting Design by Tom Wickens. Produced by MPM London.
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Paco Peña Paco Peña embodies both authenticity and innovation in flamenco. As guitarist, composer, dramatist, producer and artistic mentor he has transformed perceptions of this important art form. Born in the Andalusian city of Córdoba, Paco Peña began learning guitar from his brother at the age of six and made his first professional appearance at the age of 12. In the late 1960s he left Spain for London, where his recitals of flamenco music captured the public imagination.
Paco Peña has been hailed by The New York Times as “a virtuoso, capable of dazzling an audience beyond the frets of mortal[s]. He combines rapid-fire flourishes with a colourist’s sense of shading; this listener cannot recall hearing any guitarist with a more assured mastery of his instrument.” It should come as no surprise that readers of Guitar magazine judged Paco Peña Best Flamenco Guitarist of the Year for five consecutive years. Peña has a discography of 30 albums, most recently Paco Peña & Eliot Fisk in duo recital (2014).
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In 1981 he founded the Centro Flamenco Paco Peña in Córdoba, later becoming Artistic Director of the Córdoba International Guitar Festival. Peña is based in London, but still spends a significant part of the year in his native Andalusía. In 1997 he was proud to be named Oficial de la Cruz de la Orden del Merito Civil, an honour bestowed by King Juan Carlos of Spain.
PHOTO: Alejandro Perez
Venues for his solo performances have included the intimate Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and the monumental Royal Albert Hall in London, New York’s Carnegie Hall and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He has shared the stage with fellow guitarists, singers and instrumental groups, bridging diverse musical genres including classical, jazz, blues, country and Latin American.
Paco Peña performs regularly with his own hand-picked company of dancers, guitarists and singers and has had a succession of groundbreaking shows over the years with regular seasons in London and festival appearances worldwide. His highly acclaimed shows have included Misa Flamenca (1991), a setting of the Mass that juxtaposed Peña’s company with a classical choir; Musa Gitana (1999), based on the life and work of the painter Julio Romero de Torres; and Requiem for the Earth (2004), a commission from the Salisbury International Arts Festival. More recent shows include Flamenco Sin Fronteras which explores the relationship between Venezuelan music and Flamenco, and Quimeras which features the Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company performing a story about immigrants from Africa arriving in Andalusia. Peña’s latest show, Flamencura, explores the elusive state at the core of flamenco known as duende (soul). The performance features a series of ten provocative and colourful works, which offer a compilation of captivating styles and moods.
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Flamenco and the Diasporic Soul Pre-show talk with UBC’s Dr. Arianna Dagnino 7:15pm: Royal Bank Cinema, Chan Centre Dr. Arianna Dagnino is a writer and lecturer in the Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at UBC, where she conducts research in the field of transcultural studies. Her current project focuses on Argentine tango and transcultural practices. She is the author of Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility (Purdue UP, 2015), a creative nonfiction followed by a critical commentary on transcultural creative writing. This pre-show talk will offer a journey through the nature of flamenco in search of our emotional “home” in the era of global diasporas. “As a folk art form, flamenco is a fluid phenomenon characterized by a diversified mix of influences – from Islamic music to Jewish Synagogue chants, from Afro-Caribbean rhythms to Punjabi singing. In his latest work – Flamenco, India – the Spanish film director Carlos Saura explores flamenco’s diasporic soul tracing back one of its main roots to Rajasthan. It is from this Indian region that one thousand years ago the traditionally itinerant Romani people flew and dispersed throughout Western Europe, eventually reaching Spain. No wonder it’s the Romani from Andalusia who brought to us the deepest and most consuming form of flamenco by contemplating themes of loss, despair and displacement. We can thus think of flamenco as a long, diasporic journey in search of our lost, unknown, or imagined “home.” And we can think of ourselves – performers or spectators on the global canvas – as wanderers moving along the most intimate routes of time and memory. While flamenco reflects the pain, suffering, and uncertainty of nomadic and migrant life, it is also endowed with a strong redemptive and transformative power. Flamenco’s interpretive and cathartic nature thus expresses both the suffering and the triumph of simply being alive” – Dr. Arianna Dagnino
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Upcoming Events at the Chan Centre Full details at chancentre.com Oct 25 at 3pm: “Hollywood in Concert” with the Vancouver Pops Symphony and Choir Presented by Vancouver Orchestra Club Oct 30 at 8pm: UBC Choirs Presented by the UBC School of Music Oct 31 at 8pm: Welcome to Night Vale with musical guest Eliza Rickman Presented by Live Nation
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