Flamenco de Leeds – Raices

Flamenco charms all kinds of audiences, but it is also a very technical and intransigent art due to its complex rhythmic and visual language. In light of this, Lourdes Fernández and her Company present “Raíces”, an heterogeneous interpretation of the art, drawing on but departing from traditional flamenco in search of an eclectic style of music inspired by Folk, Andalusian Copla, Jazz and other styles. During the show, the audience will enjoy carefully studied and rehearsed acts but the attentive spectator will be able to capture original moments of improvisation.

Hence, the magic of Raíces… the inspiration that unfolds and dies… unique therefore unrepeatable… where each viewer can experience the performance through their most personal feelings. Artists express their individual vision of an art, when these visions converge on stage they bring the viewer closer to the essence of flamenco. Art, like the artist, is always in continuous evolution, Flamenco absorbs sounds and movements wherever it goes. This is its history and its future, a continuous evolution stimulated by the creativity of the great masters who have enlisted this art as one more Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. As heirs and ambassadors of this heritage, we take responsibility for the safeguard and development of Flamenco.

Without losing purity and depth, this show aims to universalise Flamenco, make it sing, dance and play, to conquer the world like Rock or Jazz did, to bring
Flamenco to a wide and diverse audience, a show for both aficionados and novices, for those who listen to flamenco and those who do not… just yet.

Programme
Deblica Barea (Opening)
Simplemente Flamenco (Farruca)
Bulerías (Medley)
Alquería y Zambra (Tientos – Tangos)
De Beirut a Málaga (Medley)
Tacita de Plata (Cantiñas)

Artists
Dance – Lourdes Fernández
Percussion- Demi García Sabat
Guitar – Adrián Solá
Voice – Mónica García
Violin – Fuensanta Zambrana-Ruiz
Dressmaking – Lázaro Fernández

Doors open 7pm. Tickets £23.