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Hola
Familia,
Coming
once again is our bi-annual Flamenco de las Americas "A Tablao Experience with
Art and Passion." February 20th - 22nd.
The
performances are dedicated, in loving memory, to Todd Craun, who was President
of the Board of Directors of Pasion y Arte. He was instrumental in the
development and the growth of Pasion y Arte, a great man who will be sorely
missed.
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Flamenco de las
Americas
"A Tablao Experience with Art and Passion"
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 Pasion y Arte presents: Flamenco de las
Americas "A Tablao Experience with
Art and Passion"Featuring Pasion y
Arte, guests from the Americas and Pasion y Arte Conservatory
Students.Special Guest
Guitarist/Cantaora (singer) Marija TemoSaturday there is a post-performance discussion regarding all of the
components of flamenco.
The performances have two main
goals: to promote the work of high-level flamenco masters who are not from Spain
and to educate the Philadelphia public about tablao.
What is
tablao?
Like the
atmosphere once created when beat poets gathered to recite verses, tablao refers
to the milieu in which flamencos showcased their dancing until the art was
institutionalized in theatrical performances. Flamenco emerged as a unique art
form in the 15th century. Spanish Gypsies (or Roma) danced flamenco privately in
their rural homes. The dance gradually migrated from the countryside to south
Spain's cities, where Gypsy artists performed on the streets and in plazas. By
the 1840s, nightclubs called "cafes del cante" began to host flamenco tablao,
giving flamencos the opportunity to demonstrate their extraordinary skills at
improvising movement within the confines of rigid rhythmic structures. The cafes
were the first enterprises to pay flamenco dancers, singers, and
musicians. Commercial flamenco was born. From the mid 1800s-early 1900s, highly
acclaimed flamenco artists danced in cafes del cante. Tablao performances helped
flamenco to grow in expressive range and aesthetic precision, exposing non-
Gypsy audiences to the art. Flamenco de Las Americas will recreate the feeling
of the tablao setting, using the intimacy offered by the Plays and Players 3rd
Floor Cabaret Theatre to greatest effect.
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| Marija
Temo |
 Classical/Flamenco Guitarist, Flamenco Singer/Dancer, and
Conductor
Marija Temo, described as a "triple threat", is widely
recognized as a virtuoso classical/flamenco guitarist, flamenco vocalist and
dancer, and conductor. She actively performs as a soloist with symphony
orchestras, in guitar concert series and festivals, and as a flamenco
singer/guitar accompanist for flamenco dancers and companies. She has also been
featured in unique types of performance, performed for many dignitaries and with
highly acclaimed artists, and has also received several awards. In addition to
her versatile performance career, she is known for her teaching methods,
educational programs, and workshops. Marija Temo plays a "Marija Temo" Model
flamenco/classical hybrid TM, which she designed with luthier Tom Rodriguez. Ms.
Temo has also received the endorsement of D'Addario Strings.
Ms. Temo is a
former faculty member of the Preparatory of the Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins
University, where she founded the Flamenco Guitar Program. She received her
Masters degree from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, studying under Manuel
Barrueco, and her Bachelors degree from the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory
of Music, studying under Loris Chobanian. Ms Temo has taken master classes from
many great flamenco artists, such as Paco Jarana, El Viejin, and Pedro Cortez,
but intensive studies with teachers that have had significant influence include:
Marta del Cid, Bruce Catalano, Sophie Ginn-Paster, Teo Morca, and Manolo
Leiva. For more information, see
http://marijatemo.com.
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Sincerely,
Elba
Hevia y Vaca
Artistic/Executive
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Purchasing
tickets
to
Flamenco
de las Americas
Plays and Players
3rd Floor Cabaret
1714 Delancey Place
Philadelphia, PA
19103
Friday,
Cash Bar!!
February 20th & 21st
at 9:30pm
Sunday,
February 22nd
at 5pm & 8pm
Door & Phone
Reservation
$25
Online Discount
$20
Tickets available at the
door, by
phone or online
www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/53739
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Flamenco Communication Workshop
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This extraordinary Flamenco Communication Workshop will be
presented by Marija Temo.
Specialized Workshops focus on Dancers,
Guitarists, and Singers
Sought after for her unique ability to teach all
three of the flamenco
genres (guitar, dance, and singing), Ms. Temo explores
what is required from each of them to effectively communicate/interact,
accompany, compliment, and improvise with one another through a breakdown on the
structure of flamenco dance and song forms.
Dancers learn the
structural components and order of a flamenco dance form, how to effectively
communicate signals for the different components, and how and where to apply
movements and choreography properly to the musical form of the
singing.
Guitarists also learn the structural components of a flamenco
dance form in order to anticipate the order from the dancer, and learn the
common chordal and rhythmic patterns used to accompany both the singing and
the dance simultaneously as well as when to apply falsetas.
Guitarists
are guided in playing more advanced rhythmic patterns and finding
and/or creating falsetas that best accompany dance footwork.
Singers
learn the structural components of a flamenco dance form in order to know when
the singing is to accompany the dance.
They also learn how and where to
place proper accentuations within the verse and apply key pitches to guide
guitarists on how to accompany the changes correctly.
In addition,
singers are shown how to vary the way the form is sung so as to inspire the
guitarist and dancer to interpret and improvise to the singing.
WORKSHOP
INFORMATION
Date:
Saturday,
February
21st
Times:
1:00-2:15 Beginners
2:30-3:45 Intermediate
$25 per
class
Location:
Pasion y Arte Overbrook Studio
6411 Overbrook
Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19151
For reservations,
please e-mail
lorca121@aol.com
or call
267-235-5685
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Get
Involved!!!
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Want to get more involved?
There
are many ways to be involved with Pasion y Arte- if you are interested in
helping out in any capacity, write to Elba Hevia y Vaca at
Lorca121@aol.com.
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