Nueva York Flamenco City & Juana Cala. / Flamenco. Presented by Terraza 7. Saturday, January 22nd, 2022, at 8:00 pm. $15 Cover charge for Mezzanine. $25: Donation suggested.
Featuring: Juana Cala / Bailaora. Adrian Alvarado / Guitar. Alfonso Cid / Cantaor.
About Juana Cala: Flamenco dancer, and choreographer has been performing and teaching Flamenco in the United States and Europe for more than 20 years. She performed as a soloist in the María Benitez Dance Company under the direction of Mario Maya, and then went on to form her own company, “Ensemble Flamenco Juana Cala”, touring some of Europe’s most prestigious theaters for 16 years, with much critical acclaim. In 1999 Juana was a professor of Flamenco in a Professional Arts Program for the European Union (a European equivalent to “The High School of Performing Arts”). She has been a resident Spanish Dance Professor in various universities across the United States. Juana has been a lead teaching artist for Flamenco Vivo for 10 years.
About Adrian Alvarado: Adrian Alvarado, São Paulo, Brazil 1968. Spanish-Brazilian guitarist, composer, and arranger. (Monica Molina, Pastora Soler, Farhad Darya, Danilo Perez). Adrian Alvarado is a very versatile guitarist, with a solid career as soloist, session musician, as well as a sideman for many artists in the Flamenco scene, Jazz and Brazilian music.
About Alfonso Cid: Alfonso was born and raised in Sevilla, the heartland of flamenco music. He also had the opportunity of attending the activities of one of the most significant flamenco clubs in Andalusia, the Peña Flamenca Torres-Macarena in Seville. Alfonso has toured extensively throughout the USA, Latin America, Israel, and Europe, and has just toured Spain last February of 2018 with the Jazz/Flamenco band the New York Bojaira Project by pianist Jesús Hernández from Granada, Spain.