"If you walked Powell Street from Columbus Avenue in San Francisco'sNorthBeach District, at the top of your climb you will arrive at
Peña Pachamama Restaurant which is well worth the effort. When you enter this old night club on Sunday nights this summer and fall its bohemian charms are still very present, warm and inviting. At6:15 pm it’s well worn hardwood floors resonate with the pulsating sounds of footwork, song, castanets, syncopated hand clapping and guitar. Carolina Lugo & daughter, Carolé Acuña and their company of flamenco dancers, burn the floor and play castanets with a mastery that can only be found in Spain. If you have not seen this group in one of it’s many
Concert Hall performances, this is an opportunity to experience, up close and personal, their high energy and passion for their art that defines a new dimension to Flamenco and Spanish dance traditions. Truely a very special evening of entertainment."-- Richard Provenzano-Flamenco Blog
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.
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:
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 Highlights:
Carolina Lugo’s Brisas de España Ballet Flamenco
presents “SONIDOS DE DOS FAMILIAS” featuring Carolina Lugo
performing "Tarantos"
with Singer Jesus Montoya and Guitarist Gino D’Auri.
Video by Richard Tonkin & Derek Pickens; Photos by Richard
Tonkin & 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.
