UPCOMING EVENTS
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¡zahara!
A vivid, powerful performance, created by Kerensa deMars, showcasing the rich tradition of flamenco and its moorish influences, featuring a cast of international musicians and dancers.
Cowell Theatre, Fort Mason Center,
SF
Friday, July 9, 8PM
Mtn. View Center for the Performing Arts
Saturday, July 10, 8PM
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Flamenco and the Azahar Foundation
The passionate, emotional, sensuous experience we call flamenco is an art form, essentially Spanish, which over the centuries has drawn upon the musical traditions of many of the great world cultures; Indian, Arab, and North African among others. For hundreds of years, flamenco has been a tribal art of the gypsy peoples of Southern Spain. They came to Spain from their ancestral lands in Rajasthan in Northern India, through Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa. Seville is the capital city of flamenco, and was also the sole entry port for trade with the Indies and thus flamenco was further enriched by Afro-Cuban influences. Flamenco now has become one of the most exciting public performance arts, incorporating elements from a variety of other art forms into its repertoire, while retaining its root, the haunting qualities of the music and dance of flamenco puro. Read: MORE ABOUT FLAMENCO, and listen to samples of flamenco music.
The Azahar Dance Foundation has a mission to extend the audience for this exciting art form and to support the growth of new artists and new performance companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. The foundation has several programs which serve this end. See: OUR PROGRAMS These programs are dependent upon private and corporate donations and foundation grants.
To see our list of Board Members and Advisers go to: WHO WE ARE Contact us at: azahar1@igc.org or write us at Azahar Dance Foundation, 3330 Louis Road, Palo Alto CA, 94303.
From time to time we post short essays about flamenco culture... we call them ... to read one, click below on the title:
January 2007
...Azahar Why azahar? Night time in Sevilla. A great palace
outside of Cordoba.
January 2007 ...Rocio
The little village in the swamps that brings a crowd a million strong.
February 2007 .Cards
What, if anything, does a Sevilla restaurant have to do with playing cards
and flamenco?
March 2007 .....Flamenco
A strange name for an art form. Where does it come from?
April 2007 .......Una
Flamenca Perdida A might have been American flamenca.
May 2007........Gitanismo
On being caló.
July 2007.........Puro
The real thing
October 2007 ...Flamenco
and Class Working class flamenco?
February 2008 .
Las Sevillanas Near to flamenco but not quite there.
May 2008 .
.....Carlos Saura and Flamenco Some great movies for aficionados..
November 2008La
Tristeza de Sevilla Memories of a great tragedy.
July 2009
........Sevilla and the English Franco Arrives.