San Francisco-based Caminos Flamencos, the West Coast’s leading and most innovative Flamenco troupe, has been presenting Flamenco performances since 2001.
With Emmy Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director, Yaelisa, and Musical Director, Jason McGuire "El Rubio,” at the helm, Caminos Flamencos’ productions have won awards for choreography, concept and music, constantly informed by the focus on both traditional and contemporary Flamenco dance and music.
Caminos Flamencos’ next production Encrucijada (“Crossroads” in Spanish) will feature several guest artists from Spain including guitarist Antonio Sanchez, nephew of world-renowned Spanish virtuoso Flamenco guitarist, Paco de Lucia. Sanchez toured the world for several years with de Lucia before his uncle’s death in 2015. This heir to de Lucia’s incredible musical legacy will be making his Bay Area debut.
Yaelisa’s eclectic cast also includes Madrid’s award-winning dancer, Alfonso Losa, who made his explosive debut in the Bay Area in 2018 at the SF International Arts Festival. Spanish singer Ismael “El Bola,” who is also making his Bay Area debut and is also a second-generation Flamenco artist, hails from the dynasty of the Familia Fernandez, a family that has produced the great artists Esperanza Fernandez, Curro Fernandez, Jose Luis Fernandez, as well as his own father, Ismael Fernandez.
Encrucijada pushes each artist in the cast towards a camino or journey of their own inner boundaries at this time and place where their individual art is at a crossroads: the time in one’s life when you choose between should and must. The planet is melting, the bees are dying, and the politicians are fighting, but we stand a fixed and ever solid barrier against despair and the negative, committed to discovery. Artists are united in the pursuit of happiness, of the joy in their art, of the sacrifices they make to push their own inner boundaries in directions or caminos that are unknown, risky, and frightening.
A Flamenco dancer ties two worlds together: the ritual of tradition and history and the excitement of discovery of the power of exploration and change. These worlds can often collide, and sometimes they are the only choice they have as artists. Age, time, the physical, and the metaphysical, work with or against us, but Flamenco gives us the sign that we can accept the challenge. Each artist in this show will accept the challenge of performing in moments that are foreign to him or her. Challenge accepted.
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With Emmy Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director, Yaelisa, and Musical Director, Jason McGuire "El Rubio,” at the helm, Caminos Flamencos’ productions have won awards for choreography, concept and music, constantly informed by the focus on both traditional and contemporary Flamenco dance and music.
Caminos Flamencos’ next production Encrucijada (“Crossroads” in Spanish) will feature several guest artists from Spain including guitarist Antonio Sanchez, nephew of world-renowned Spanish virtuoso Flamenco guitarist, Paco de Lucia. Sanchez toured the world for several years with de Lucia before his uncle’s death in 2015. This heir to de Lucia’s incredible musical legacy will be making his Bay Area debut.
Yaelisa’s eclectic cast also includes Madrid’s award-winning dancer, Alfonso Losa, who made his explosive debut in the Bay Area in 2018 at the SF International Arts Festival. Spanish singer Ismael “El Bola,” who is also making his Bay Area debut and is also a second-generation Flamenco artist, hails from the dynasty of the Familia Fernandez, a family that has produced the great artists Esperanza Fernandez, Curro Fernandez, Jose Luis Fernandez, as well as his own father, Ismael Fernandez.
Encrucijada pushes each artist in the cast towards a camino or journey of their own inner boundaries at this time and place where their individual art is at a crossroads: the time in one’s life when you choose between should and must. The planet is melting, the bees are dying, and the politicians are fighting, but we stand a fixed and ever solid barrier against despair and the negative, committed to discovery. Artists are united in the pursuit of happiness, of the joy in their art, of the sacrifices they make to push their own inner boundaries in directions or caminos that are unknown, risky, and frightening.
A Flamenco dancer ties two worlds together: the ritual of tradition and history and the excitement of discovery of the power of exploration and change. These worlds can often collide, and sometimes they are the only choice they have as artists. Age, time, the physical, and the metaphysical, work with or against us, but Flamenco gives us the sign that we can accept the challenge. Each artist in this show will accept the challenge of performing in moments that are foreign to him or her. Challenge accepted.
San Francisco-based Caminos Flamencos, the West Coast’s leading and most innovative Flamenco troupe, has been presenting Flamenco performances since 2001.
With Emmy Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director, Yaelisa, and Musical Director, Jason McGuire "El Rubio,” at the helm, Caminos Flamencos’ productions have won awards for choreography, concept and music, constantly informed by the focus on both traditional and contemporary Flamenco dance and music.
Caminos Flamencos’ next production Encrucijada (“Crossroads” in Spanish) will feature several guest artists from Spain including guitarist Antonio Sanchez, nephew of world-renowned Spanish virtuoso Flamenco guitarist, Paco de Lucia. Sanchez toured the world for several years with de Lucia before his uncle’s death in 2015. This heir to de Lucia’s incredible musical legacy will be making his Bay Area debut.
Yaelisa’s eclectic cast also includes Madrid’s award-winning dancer, Alfonso Losa, who made his explosive debut in the Bay Area in 2018 at the SF International Arts Festival. Spanish singer Ismael “El Bola,” who is also making his Bay Area debut and is also a second-generation Flamenco artist, hails from the dynasty of the Familia Fernandez, a family that has produced the great artists Esperanza Fernandez, Curro Fernandez, Jose Luis Fernandez, as well as his own father, Ismael Fernandez.
Encrucijada pushes each artist in the cast towards a camino or journey of their own inner boundaries at this time and place where their individual art is at a crossroads: the time in one’s life when you choose between should and must. The planet is melting, the bees are dying, and the politicians are fighting, but we stand a fixed and ever solid barrier against despair and the negative, committed to discovery. Artists are united in the pursuit of happiness, of the joy in their art, of the sacrifices they make to push their own inner boundaries in directions or caminos that are unknown, risky, and frightening.
A Flamenco dancer ties two worlds together: the ritual of tradition and history and the excitement of discovery of the power of exploration and change. These worlds can often collide, and sometimes they are the only choice they have as artists. Age, time, the physical, and the metaphysical, work with or against us, but Flamenco gives us the sign that we can accept the challenge. Each artist in this show will accept the challenge of performing in moments that are foreign to him or her. Challenge accepted.
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With Emmy Award-winning dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director, Yaelisa, and Musical Director, Jason McGuire "El Rubio,” at the helm, Caminos Flamencos’ productions have won awards for choreography, concept and music, constantly informed by the focus on both traditional and contemporary Flamenco dance and music.
Caminos Flamencos’ next production Encrucijada (“Crossroads” in Spanish) will feature several guest artists from Spain including guitarist Antonio Sanchez, nephew of world-renowned Spanish virtuoso Flamenco guitarist, Paco de Lucia. Sanchez toured the world for several years with de Lucia before his uncle’s death in 2015. This heir to de Lucia’s incredible musical legacy will be making his Bay Area debut.
Yaelisa’s eclectic cast also includes Madrid’s award-winning dancer, Alfonso Losa, who made his explosive debut in the Bay Area in 2018 at the SF International Arts Festival. Spanish singer Ismael “El Bola,” who is also making his Bay Area debut and is also a second-generation Flamenco artist, hails from the dynasty of the Familia Fernandez, a family that has produced the great artists Esperanza Fernandez, Curro Fernandez, Jose Luis Fernandez, as well as his own father, Ismael Fernandez.
Encrucijada pushes each artist in the cast towards a camino or journey of their own inner boundaries at this time and place where their individual art is at a crossroads: the time in one’s life when you choose between should and must. The planet is melting, the bees are dying, and the politicians are fighting, but we stand a fixed and ever solid barrier against despair and the negative, committed to discovery. Artists are united in the pursuit of happiness, of the joy in their art, of the sacrifices they make to push their own inner boundaries in directions or caminos that are unknown, risky, and frightening.
A Flamenco dancer ties two worlds together: the ritual of tradition and history and the excitement of discovery of the power of exploration and change. These worlds can often collide, and sometimes they are the only choice they have as artists. Age, time, the physical, and the metaphysical, work with or against us, but Flamenco gives us the sign that we can accept the challenge. Each artist in this show will accept the challenge of performing in moments that are foreign to him or her. Challenge accepted.
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