Come join us on this Tablao/Juerga with Anna Rubio and her Flamenco del Encuentro Share Time: Friday 6 at 7:30 pm Location: Bar Ferdinand 1030 North 2nd Street (2nd just above Girard) Philadelphia, PA  19123 Please join us for a very special evening- many people are unaware that our very own flamenco cantaora ANTONIA CRUZ ARIAS was only in Philly’s CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL when she was first blowing us all away singing for us, and many...

Share Dear Friends of PASIÓN Y ARTE FLAMENCO COMPANY, Happy Spring!  Happy 10th Year Anniversary.  Let’s Celebrate. Please SAVE THE DATE for Pasión y Arte Flamenco Company’s 10th Year Anniversary Celebration and Fundraiser in a few weeks. Saturday and Sunday, May 21st-22nd, 2011 Featuring Students and Pasión y Arte Company! May 21st, 7pm Performance, followed by Reception and Silent Auction May 22nd, 3pm Performance, followed...

Anne Margaret O’Malley Castellanos, Founder and Artistic Director of Pas De Flamenco earned her BFA in Dance at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She studied Flamenco and Spanish Dance with Julia Lopez and was an original Company member of Flamenco Ole. She toured Spain with the Ballet des Jeunes under the Direction of Ursula Melita and over the past 15 years has performed with Philadelphia Civic Ballet Company, Camerata...

Destiny will find you no matter how hard you try to escape it it. OUR STORY SOLO DUET is a short film by director, MARISA LLOREDA SAEZ. It is the follow-up to her award winning feature documentary, “Streets of Flamenco”— the inspirational telling of the story of Maria Bermúdez, a Chicana from East L.A., who after her flamenco dancer brother dies makes his dream her own by traveling to the birthplace of flamenco in the deepest south of , to...

Share Tres Compadres will be performing in historic Kennett Square on Saturday April 2 at Kennett Flash. Tickets $12 in advance, $15 day of show. Free parking available. The Group Tres Compadres is a modern flamenco ensemble that combines latin and jazz influences with Spanish flamenco. Fiery guitar playing outlining thoughful melodies, complex rhythms, and virtuoso solos creates the back drop for a high energy, multi-cultral event...

Like the atmosphere once created when beat poets gathered to recite verses, Tablao refers to the milieu in which flamencos showcased their dancing until the art was institutionalized in theatrical performances. Flamenco Tablao emerged as a unique art form in the 15th century. Spanish Gypsies (or Roma) danced flamenco privately in their rural homes. The dance gradually migrated from the countryside to south Spain’s cities, where Gypsy...