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UPCOMING EVENTS
We are pleased to announce
A TRAVÉS DE SUS OJOS
With Melissa Cruz, Jason McGuire, Gonzalo Grau, Jesus Montoya, Vicente Griego Saturday July 26 Mountain
View Center Tickets $29, $25 senior, student Saturday September 6 Cowell
Theatre, Fort Mason Center, SF Tickets $32, $26 senior, student
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¡HASSA! FLAMENCO! Noches Calientes de Flamenco
At Angelica’s
Bistro Saturday, August
23rd, 2008 Passionate Flamenco music and dance in an intimate setting. Guitarist:
David McMahon Dinner Reservations
Recommended: (650) 365-3226 If you want to be on our
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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 at 650-493-6314, or write us at 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.
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