Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 35

The 35th Annual Festival Flamenco Alburquerque is a wrap!

Thank you to all of the incredible artists, technicians, students, visitors, volunteers, supporters, and members who made this year's edition of the Festival truly special.

Enjoy this look back at the week and see you next year!

Featured Artists:

Eva Yerbabuena y Compañía: Eva Yerbabuena, Paco Jarana, Sandra Carrasco, Segundo Falcón, Miguel Ortega, Alfredo Tejada, and Daniel Suárez

Mercedes de Córdoba y Compañía: Mercedes de Córdoba, Juan Campallo, Jesús Corbacho, Pepe de Pura, Paco Vega

Alfonso Losa y Compañía with invited artists Concha Jareño and Sandra Carrasco: Alfonso Losa, Concha Jareño, Sandra Carrasco, Francisco Vinuesa, Vanesa Coloma

Paloma Fantova y Compañía: Paloma Fantova, Antonio Fernández, Pepe de Pura, Juan Campallo, Paco Vega

José Maya y Pastora Galván y Compañía: José Maya, Pastora Galván, Angelita Montoya, Manuel Tañé, Manuel de la Nina, Antonio Santiago Sanchez "Ñoño"

Estévez/Paños y Compañía: Rafael Estévez, Valeriano Paños, Jorge Morera, Jesús Perona, Alberto Sellés, Rosana Romero, Vicente Gelo, Claudio Villanueva, Iván Mellén

Sara Cano y Compañía: Sara Cano, Alberto Funes

Nélida Tirado y Compañía: Nélida Tirado, Alondra Matamoros, Adriana Olivares, Laura Peralta, Christian Taborda Ramos, Felix Trinidad III, Omar Ledezma López, Francisco Orozco "Yiyi", Alex Jordan, Jeremy Smith, Alexandra Vásquez Dheming

Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company: Joaquín Encinias, Alisa Alba, Nevarez Encinias, Noelle Encinias, Giovanna Hinojosa, Roxana Jian, Andrea Lozano, Kayla Lyall, Carlos Menchaca, Madison Olguin, Elena Osuna, Claudia Pizarro Lara, Ysabela Trujillo, Vicente Griego, Mario Febres, Eloy Gonzales, Javier Saume-Mazzei

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque Artists Announced

FESTIVAL FLAMENCO ALBURQUERQUE 35
JUNE 11-18, 2022
FFABQ.ORG - REGISTRATION OPEN NOW!

The National Institute of Flamenco proudly presents these amazing artists in the 35th Annual Festival Flamenco Alburquerque: 

Estévez / Paños y Compañía
Cia Paloma Fantova
Mercedes de Cordoba/compañía
Alfonso Losa with invited artist Concha Jareño
José Maya with invited artist Pastora Galvan 
Eva Yerbabuena 
Sara Cano Compañía de Danza
Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company

Join us and celebrate the momentous occasion of the Festival’s 35th year!

Music: "Aire Andaluz" by Ricardo Anglada and Vicente Griego 
Trailer: Incredible Films

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque is produced with support from UNM Department of Theatre and Dance, National Hispanic Cultural Center, National Endowment for the Arts, Bernalillo County NM, City of Albuquerque, the Office of Mayor Tim Keller, CABQ Arts & Culture, Acción Cultural Española, AC/E, Heritage Hotels and Resorts, New Mexico Humanities Council, New Mexico Arts, UNM Friends of Dance, UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute, SPAIN arts & culture, Instituto Cervantes Albuquerque, Western States Arts Federation, and the UNM Global Education Office.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque Image Reveal

The National Institute of Flamenco proudly presents the 35th Annual Festival Flamenco Alburquerque
JUNE 11-18, 2022
FFABQ.org

Join us and celebrate the momentous occasion of the Festival’s 35th year! The Institute looks forward to a thrilling Festival that showcases the power of flamenco and honors the legacy of this event. Santa Fe artist Erin Currier created this year’s incredible Festival Flamenco Alburquerque image. Read more about Erin Currier and our Festival image here: https://ffiabq.org/overview

Please stay tuned to our websites and social media as we share more details regarding registration and programming.

Eva Encinias Talks Distinguished Dance Teacher Award and Festival Flamenco Alburquerque on KRQE

Our Founding Director and Professor Emerita of the University of New Mexico Dance Program, Eva Encinias, has been awarded Distinguished Dance Teacher of the Year by Dance Teacher Magazine. This award recognizes her outstanding contributions to dance and education, and her lifetime of work educating students and their families in the art and culture of flamenco through the University of New Mexico, Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, the Conservatory of Flamenco Arts, and the numerous places where Eva has reached communities throughout her career. ¡Enhorabuena!

National Institute of Flamenco & Festival Flamenco Alburquerque Founding Director Eva Encinias stopped by the KRQE studio to discuss her Distinguished Dance Teacher of the Year award and the upcoming Festival happening in July. Click below to watch the full interview!

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque History Conference Keynote Speakers Announced

The National Institute of Flamenco and Festival Flamenco Alburquerque are honored to announce 8th Biennial New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium keynote speakers Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild and Meira Goldberg.

Photo: Ryan Collerd for Pew Center For Arts & Heritage, courtesy of Dr. Dixon Gottschild

Brenda Dixon Gottschild is the author of Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts; Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era (winner of the 2001 Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Scholarly Dance Publication); The Black Dancing Body–A Geography from Coon to Cool (winner, 2004 de la Torre Bueno prize for scholarly excellence in dance publication); and Joan Myers Brown and The Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina-A Biohistory of American Performance.

Additional honors include the Congress on Research in Dance Award for Outstanding Leadership in Dance Research (2008); a Leeway Foundation Transformation Grant (2009); the International Association for Blacks in Dance Outstanding Scholar Award (2013); the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus Civil Rights Award (2016); and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2017).

A self-described anti-racist cultural worker utilizing dance as her medium, she is a freelance writer, consultant, performer, and lecturer; a former consultant and writer for Dance Magazine; and Professor Emerita of dance studies, Temple University. As an artist-scholar she coined the phrase, “choreography for the page,” to describe her embodied, subjunctive approach to research writing.

Nationwide and abroad she curates post-performance reflexive dialogues, writes critical performance essays, performs self-created solos, and collaborates with her husband, choreographer/dancer Hellmut Gottschild, in a genre they developed and titled “movement theater discourse.”

More about her work can be found at www.bdixongottschild.com and Facebook - Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Photo Credit: Michael Penland, courtesy Dr. Meira Goldberg

K. MEIRA GOLDBERG is a flamenco performer, choreographer, teacher, and scholar. In 1980s Madrid, she performed nightly in flamenco tablaos alongside artists such as Antonio Canales, Arturo Pavón, El Indio Gitano, and Diego Carrasco. In the US, she was first dancer with Carlota Santana, Fred Darsow, and Pasión y Arte. Since going grey, she has instigated and collaborated on 100 Years of Flamenco in NYC (NYPL, 2013), Flamenco on the Global Stage (McFarland, 2015), The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance (Cambridge Scholars, 2016), and Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song, and Dance (Cambridge Scholars, 2019). Forthcoming projects include the collaborations Flamenco: History, Performance and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2022), Indígenas, africanos, roma y europeos. Ritmos transatlánticos en música, canto y baile (Música Oral del Sur, 2021), The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots (Cambridge Scholars, 2021), and a monograph, Perra Mora: Love and War in the Body of a Woman. She teaches at FIT and is Scholar-in-Residence at the Foundation for Iberian Music (CUNY). Her monograph, Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco (Oxford University Press, 2019), won the Barnard Hewitt Award for best 2019 book in theatre history or cognate disciplines, as well as Honorable Mention for the Sally Banes Publication Award for best exploration of the intersections between theatre and dance/movement, both from the American Society for Theatre Research.

Learn more about the 8th Biennial New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium here.

FESTIVAL FLAMENCO ALURQUERQUE: WHY THE "R" IS NOT EXTRA

Levi Romero, Inaugural New Mexico Poet Laureate, was kind enough to let us share his words about the spelling of Alburquerque with the "r":

"Alburquerque with the 'r' was the original spelling. Acclaimed Chicano writer Rudolfo Anaya used the spelling in the title of his 2006 novel 'Alburquerque.' The Chicano writers of the 60s and 70s used the colloquial pronunciation 'Alburque' in their poetry and literature. The contemporary popularization evolved among the cholo/as of the 80s to 'Burque.' We should continue to use the 'r' in Alburquerque, and not just in posters and poems."

Levi Romero, Inaugural New Mexico Poet Laureate