The festival, which runs through March 15, also welcomes in its second week Estévez/Paños y Compañía, Mara Rey, Raquel Heredia “La Repompa,” Jon Maya, and Andrés Marín, among many other leading figures of this art form. The 25th edition of Flamenco Festival New York continues its journey by honoring, in every performance, the love story the city has shared with flamenco for the past 140 years. Since February 25 and through March 15, a delegation of more than 180 participants from 16 companies—featuring artists of song, guitar, and dance—has been presenting their latest and most diverse works to audiences across the city. Throughout this second week, renowned artists such as Sara Baras, Dani de Morón, Rosario “La Tremendita”, and Ángeles Toledano will take the stage at venues across New York. Among the first to perform are Estévez/Paños y Compañía who, after presenting La Confluencia at New York City Center, return on Tuesday, at NYU Espacio de Culturas alongside dancer Yoel Vargas—making his New York debut—to present Landscape + Silencios, a double program paying tribute to Carmen Amaya, John Cage, and Vicente Escudero. In Landscape, a suite for dance and percussion, Yoel Vargas draws inspiration from the force of Carmen Amaya’s zapateado and John Cage’s percussion compositions, imagining a meeting between their sonic worlds in 1940s New York. Silencios, meanwhile, emerges from the direct artistic confrontation between Estévez and Paños in their purest form, without other musicians or dancers. Inspired by John Cage’s A Year from Monday, the piece explores the connection between two bodies, styles, and life stories, weaving sound and silence, past and present, into an intimate and profound dialogue through dance. Energy and virtuosity will also mark this 25th anniversary with Sara Baras, who will close the New York City Center program. From March 5–8, she presents Vuela, created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her company while honoring legendary guitarist Paco de Lucía, who found in New York a space of artistic freedom and dialogue that shaped his music and helped bring flamenco to the global stage. On March 6, Raquel Heredia “La Repompa” returns to New York—where she debuted at just 15 alongside her mother, singer Rafaela Reyes—to present Pido Permiso, a tribute to her family’s legacy, one of flamenco’s great dynasties. Rosario La Tremendita will also take the stage at Joe’s Pub on Sunday, March 8, with guitarist Dani de Morón in Tránsito, a journey through flamenco’s traditional forms, stripping the genre to its purest essence. The festival will also spotlight the longstanding dialogue between jazz and flamenco at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Flamenco Meets Jazz (March 4–5), featuring Dani de Morón and acclaimed pianist Shai Maestro, honoring Paco de Lucía’s spirit of cross-genre collaboration. . Ángeles Toledano will make her Festival debut at Roulette on March 7 with En Concierto, presented in collaboration with Flamenco Eñe (Fundación SGAE). She will perform alongside guitarist Benito Bernal. That same day, Bronx Music Hall will host Tributo a Lola Flores, honoring “La Faraona” with performances by Grammy-nominated drummer Bobby Sanabria and Ascensión Band, singer Mara Rey, and Jennifer Jade. . The festival also returns to Baryshnikov Arts on March 4–5 with Fiesta Flamenca, recreating the spirit of traditional café cantantes, and to the Guggenheim Museum on March 8 with YARIN, a cross-cultural encounter between Basque dancer Jon Maya and flamenco artist Andrés Marín. The traditional cajón gathering will also take place on March 8 at Bronx Music Hall, offering audiences the chance to participate in a flamenco percussion workshop and learn more about the instrument adopted by Paco de Lucía in the 1970s.FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK CONTINUES
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF LOVE WITH SARA BARAS,
DANI DE MORÓN, ROSARIO “LA TREMENDITA,”
AND ÁNGELES TOLEDANO
Ángeles Toledano’s debut in the Big Apple
Stages that return
