The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival is back with another entertaining line-up of national and international flamenco artists for its 32nd edition, from September 3– 25. The 2022 Festival features ticketed and free live performances, events and classes at Norman Rothstein Theatre, Waterfront Theatre, the Picnic Pavilion at Granville Island, and Scotiabank Dance Centre. The Festival promises to deliver innovative and dynamic programs celebrating the opportunity to once again bring international artists to the program.
The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival program includes:
Norman Rothstein Theatre
Mucha Muchacha (Spain) September 16th @ 8pm
Mucha Muchacha, the company’s magnum opus. What started as theoretical and practical research about women artists from the ‘Generation of the 27th’, known as Las Sinsombrero evolved into a contemporary dance project focused on the ideas of empowerment, determination, voice, participation, freedom and cooperation.
The performance is developed from force-driven movement, effort, celebration and physical exhaustion. They put ‘at-risk’ traditional Spanish dance’s corporeality in a confrontation with contemporary dancing. The piece is their declaration of intention about movement, community, femininity and rite.
While being a young company born of Spanish dance, they felt the urge to work from a contemporary perspective, constantly in dialogue with the current framework of living arts – making them part of its perspective and its language. They seek a close relationship with the audience, pushing the borders of scenic innovation.
This production has been made possible with the generous the support of Madrid’s creation and mobility aids programme and the special collaboration of ‘A Gatas 2019’ creative residence run by ‘Conde Duque’ cultural center, ‘La Abadia’ theatre and RESA.
Waterfront Theatre
Anastassiia Alexander (Calgary) September 22nd @ 8pm
The Machination of Memories Suppressed is based on a poem “Maquina de Olvido” that Anastassiia wrote the performance contains elements of spoken word with dance. All the soundscapes and rhythms are created by Anastassiia using a loop station. The work was developed in 2019 during a residency in Edmonton with Good Women Collective. The creative process continued in Mexico City, with Cristina Hall as an ‘outside eye’.
Kara Miranda Lawrence (Montreal) September 23rd @8pm
Sombras/Shadows, is a live music and dance presentation with visual projection reflecting personal experience both visually and thematically. Shadows are explored as interplay between light and dark, through the lens of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung’s theories of the Shadow Self. A parallel search for intangible shadows of the past, Kara’s ancestral roots, living in the shadow of the Flamenco greats that came before and the master that reign today and finally accepting and actualising her shadow side.
Flamenco Rosario (Vancouver) September 24th @ 8pm
With Nuevo III, Flamenco Rosario presents a collection of refreshing new choreographies by Ballet Nacional de España’s leading dancer and award-winning choreographer Albert Hernandez, Granada’s Sara Jimenez and Rosario Ancer.
Albert Hernandez will also join Flamenco Rosario on stage, presenting three of his works with Madrid’s Irene Tena Mora, including his award-winning work ‘Loca”.
Picnic Pavilion Stage (Free events)
On September 3rd and 4th starting at 1pm until 6pm, the Festival presents the work of local Vancouver & Victoria based Flamenco dance and music artists.
Featuring:
Sat Sept 3
1pm Mozaico Flamenco
2pm A J Simmons and company
3pm Bonnie Stewart
4pm Jhoely Triana
5pm Michelle Harding and Calle Verde
Sun Sept 4
1pm Mozaico Flamenco
2pm Kara Wiebe
3pm Michelle Harding and Calle Verde
4pm Linda Hayes
5pm Bonnie Stewart
Children are invited to join a free taster workshop on Sunday Sept 4 from 12noon- 12:20pm and for adults from 12:20pm to 12:50pm then stay for the shows.
Masterclasses with our guest artists:
Sept 17 & 18, Scotiabank Dance Centre:
11am to 1pm: Intermediate / 1pm to 3pm: Advanced with Mucha Muchacha.
Cost per level: $225 (+ GST) member rate available
Sept 24, Scotiabank Dance Centre:
11am to 1pm: Choreographic Repertoire (contemporary) with Albert Hernandez.
Cost $125 (+ GST) member rate available
Sept 24, Scotiabank Dance Centre:
1:15pm to 3:30pm: Theory and Practice: Exploring the skills of Improvisation, Dynamics and Active Listening through Palmas, with Alvaro Echanove and Henry Garf
Cost $50 (+ GST) member rate available
The 2022 Vancouver International Flamenco Festival runs September 3 – 25, 2022. For more information, tickets and registration on vancouverflamencofestival.org