Carolina Acuña
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Carolina’s show combines the pulsating sounds of footwork, song, castanets, syncopated hand clapping and guitar, painting a visual canvas in movement through dance. The relationship between all of these rhythmic essentials is riveting. The heart and spirit of Flamenco is a force beyond reason, one in which emotion and instinct take over and are expressed and fulfilled in the moment. So, if you are ready for dance and music with passion, don’t miss Carolina Lugo’s Brisas de Espaňa.

Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:00 PM.
Village Theater, 233 Front Street, Danville, CA

 Call 925-314-3400 for tickets 

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http://www.ci.danville.ca.us/default.asp?serviceID1=882&Frame=L1



General Admission $30

Seniors $25

Students/ID and children $25

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Featuring International Artists

Dancers Carolina Lugo, Carolé Acuña and Aldo Ruiz

Singer Roberto Zamora and Guitarist Daniel Torres

Brisas de España Company Dancers

& Students of  Brisas Flamenco Dance Academy

                                                            

Brisas de España is recognized as one of the top Flamenco-Spanish Dance Company's in the United States. The uniqueness of Brisas de España emanates from the combination of Flamenco-Spanish dance presented on stage by Artistic Director, Carolina Lugo.

Carolina Lugo's show awakens your emotions of passion, intensity and energy by painting a musical canvas, using the elements of dance, song, music, castanets, percussive footwork and syncopated hand clapping. The relationship between all of these rhythmic essentials is riveting. ....."The troupe performed spiritedly to the complex Spanish melodies and rhythms.,...the dancers gave it style and grace and captivated the large audience with their bravura and skill." ~Patricia Beach Smith, Sacramento Bee Arts Critic

Come and embrace the spirit, energy, fiery dance and music traditions of Spain and find out why Toba Singer of Critical Dance exclaimed...., “See this accomplished troupe for their richness, history, high definition dancing.....you will leave the theatre completely enchanted!"

Carolina and her daughter, Carolé Acúña, have a rich history of performing Flamenco and Classical Spanish dance to sell out audiences in the Bay Area, West Coast and internationally in China since 1998. They will collaborate and share the stage this season 2007 with three notable artists from Spain. This group of outstanding performers will share the world stage together for two nights only to create an evolution of beauty, intensity and style. ”It is when Lugo and her daughter Carolé dance together that the women unearth a new dimension in dance, prompting a dialogue with the audience about beauty, life  cycles, love and death.”    -Ann Murphy, Oakland Tribune.
 

                                                                                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Principal Dancer Carolé Acúña is Carolina’s daughter and a fifth generation dancer in her family. She began her studies in Flamenco dance with Rosa Montoya and in Spanish dance with Carolina Lugo at the age of 11. She has studied with Flamenco artists, Manuel Betanzos, Omayra Amaya, Antonio Vargas and Concha Vargas from Spain. She is the Bay Area’s most prominent young Flamenco dance artist. In 1996, she made her professional debut with Rosa Montoya’s Bailes Flamencos and continues to perform regularly with Brisas de España as a Principal Dancer with various symphonies at venues throughout Northern California, the West Coast, internationally in China and as a soloist with other Bay Area Flamenco artists. She is thoroughly trained in Ballet and studies Modern dance with Cheryl Chaddick and Robert Moses in San Francisco. Carolé recently returned from Seville, Spain, where she studied extensively for six months with renowned Flamenco Artist, Pepa Montes.

Flamenco and Angel Romero

Peninsula Symphony

Peninsula Symphony has invited Carolina Lugo’s Brisas de España Flamenco Dance Company to celebrate its 60th Anniversary Season performances on January 16th and 17th. Sharing the bill with Carolina is the world renowned Spanish classical guitarist Angel Romero.

Friday, Jan 16, 2009 - 8:00 pm
Fox Theatre
2215 Broadway St., Downtown, Redwood City


Saturday, Jan 17, 2009 - 8:00 pm
Flint Center/DeAnza College
21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., De Anza College, Cupertino

Order tickets online: http://www.peninsulasymphony.org/all-concerts.html#a448

 

Program:
Manuel De Falla: Interlude and Dance from La Vida Brevé
Georges Bizet: Carmen Suite
Manuel De Falla: Three Cornered Hat Suite
Emmanuel Chabrier: España
     Carolina Lugo's Brisas de España Flamenco Dance Company
Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
     Angel Romero, guitar

 

Carolina Lugo’s choreographic works for her company Brisas de España offers the time honored traditional art forms of the story telling of Spanish dance, which is the “mother” of all dances from Spain, had its beginning in the European royal courts, Flamenco with its high intense energy and passionate earthy Gypsy roots and Regional dances, song and music of Spain. Spanish Dance and Flamenco is different from other genres of dance in that the dancer provides their own accompaniment by creating their own percussive rhythms to which they move to by playing castanets, finger snapping, footwork and palmas {syncopated hand clapping}. Using the music of De Falla, Bizet and Chabrier, Ms. Lugo brings together a fusion of these rhythms creating a riveting experience for the audience. The visual effect of the dancer’s long dresses, shawls (mantons) and Spanish fan provides an artistic palate of color as the dancers embrace the audience with the depth and fiery sensuality of dancing.

 

 

 

 

Video Highlight's: Carolina Lugo’s Brisas de España
Flamenco Dance Company presents “SONIDOS DE DOS FAMILIAS”
Featuring Carolina Lugo, Carolé Acúña , Singer Jesus Montoya and Guitarist Gino D’Auri

Video produced by Richard Tonkin and Derick Pickens; Photos by Richard & Les Tonkin

We would like to thank the following sponsors for their support of our 2008 Concert Season: The Zellerbach Family Foundation, California Arts Council, and Alliance for California Traditional Arts in partnership with the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and James Irvine Foundation. The Fort Mason Foundation in partnership with the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund and our many generous supporters whose contributions help keep Brisas de España flourishing and bringing the Spanish Cultural Arts to the Bay Area Communities.

 

  
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