Scottsdale Center for the Arts Scottsdale Az Abbey Messmer Programming Director

Imagine a trip to southern Spain, where music echoes through the streets of ancient cities. The sound of a guitar cascades downward from an open window, and a glance upward reveals iron balconies filled with flowers, plants and dirt pots. A park bench may apace go a gathering identify for rhythm, song and dance. Human connection is the center of everyday life. The region is Andalusia, and the music is flamenco.

Every Sat in October and November you can catch a glimpse of this world, at 8 p.1000. at Scottsdale Eye for the Performing Arts' Stage 2. The show, "Flamenco Intimo," features Julia Chacón's Flamenco Theater (formerly Inspiración Flamenca) offering eight distinct shows brindled with guest artists from virtually and far.

Flamenco is the dance, guitar technique and song forms of southern Spain. An intricate fine art form, the dance features rapid footwork, spiraling arms and dynamic costumes. The guitar incorporates complex finger techniques and the singing is highly expressive.

Managing director/Dancer, Julia Chacón trained and performed in Madrid and Seville, Spain, and toured the United States and away with international trip the light fantastic toe companies for x years. Chacón is Phoenix native who returned to the Valley in late 2013.

This new theater-dance series is unique to Scottsdale and is a milestone for the organisation, which has committed to increased and new opportunities for local artists. Abbey Messmer, programming director for the Eye said, "Working with Julia Chacón on this projection is a no-brainer for usa. She's an amazingly talented artist who has created a beautiful programme that will activate Stage 2 in an exciting way. Nosotros are designing the infinite around Julia's vision of an intimate Andalusian café where guests tin sit down at a tabular array with a glass of vino and minor bites while soaking upward the rich layers of flamenco."

This is not Chacón's inaugural year at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Kickoff in 2015 and subsequent years since, Chacón's company Inspiración Flamenca filled the Virginia Grand. Piper Theater, earning standing ovations from the largest crowds of the Alive & Local summer series.

Since 2015, Chacón'southward company has also sold out iii concerts at Peoria Center for the Performing Arts; was twice chosen as a Pinnacle Ten Event in Phoenix magazine; was featured in Images Arizona mag and the Arizona Commonwealth; and appeared on KTVK-3TV and Play tricks 10. In 2016, Chacón presented at TedxLSU with musician Kristofer Hill. This upcoming 2-month run in Scottsdale will be the first flamenco theater series in the Valley.

"Flamenco sparked my imagination when I was very young," Chacón said. "The trip the light fantastic toe and music transported me, and for the showtime time I became curious well-nigh the world. Seeing it became possible. I promise to share all I take experienced."

Chacón's mentor is Castilian dance main Lydia Torea, an American pioneer in Spanish Dance, and dance partner to José Greco in the 1960s. "The audition is in for a fabulous experience," Torea said. "It is time for a series like this, and I am thrilled. I support Julia totally and am very proud of her."

Chacón'due south career equally a soloist with María Benitez Teatro Flamenco, Carlota Santana's Flamenco Vivo and the Cuadro de José Galvan in Seville had her performing with elite artists such as Andres Peña, Chuscales, Tudela and Inmaculada Ortega. She founded the dance company Inspiración Flamenca in Santa Iron, New United mexican states in 2008, and inverse the name to Flamenco Theatre this year.

The upcoming bear witness features choreography and performance by Chacón, Carlos Montufar and Martin Gaxiola (founder of Caló Flamenco). A dynamic ensemble of international dancers and musicians volition likewise exist featured, including Greek pianist Ioannis Goudelis, who has opened for Stevie Wonder and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, dancer Leilah Broukhim from Madrid, and international laurels-winning guitarist, Misael Barraza from Mexico.

The audience may enjoy a total bar and lite fare in the theater, which will have a mix of bistro tables and theater seating. The concert begins at 8 p.1000.

"Here flamenco volition be experienced as it is meant to be seen," Chacón said, "in a dedicated, intimate, environment where art is middle stage, and the performance transports you to another place."

DETAILS

Who: Julia Chacón'south Flamenco Theater

What: Flamenco Intimo

Where: Scottsdale Heart for the Performing Arts Stage 2 Theater

7380 E. 2nd St., Scottsdale, AZ 85251

When: Saturdays in October and Nov, 2018, at 8 p.m. Drinks and light fare available.

Tickets: $xviii to $22, reserved, www.ScottsdalePerformingArts.org  or 480-499-TKTS (8587).

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Source: https://inspiracionflamenca.com/2018/09/13/julia-chacon-flamenco-theater-at-scottsdale-center-for-the-performing-arts-october-november-2018-scottsdale-az/