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Flamenco dancers take over TSPAC
Article published on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007 |
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TARPON SPRINGS - The Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center presents Siempre Flamenco, starring Paco and Celia Fonta, on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. All interested dancers and musicians are invited to attend a special Flamenco workshop Sunday, Oct. 7, at 2 p.m. All skill levels are welcome.
Reserved seats tickets to the performance are $22; $20 for center members and students. Admission to the workshop is $20; $18 for center members and students. Tickets are available by calling 727-942-5605. The performing arts center is located at 324 Pine St.
The Fontas present an authentic show dedicated to preserving the art of flamenco in a fiery and engaging performance. The audience is witness to the vast array of human emotions that are expressed through flamenco.
Whether on the concert stage or in a more intimate tablao setting, Siempre Flamenco will delight and exhilarate young and old. The depth of human emotion is timeless and crosses all ethnic cultures and experiences.
Artistic Director and dancer Celia Fonta is joined by dancers Jorge Robledo, Nuria Cid, Ana Miranda, Loly Rosas. Musicians are Paco Fonta, guitar and voice and violinist Michael Gadzinski.
Flamenco dancer Celia Fonta is a native of Chicago where she first studied flamenco guitar before beginning her career in dance. She began her studies of Spanish classical and folkloric dance in Madrid at the world famous Amor de Dios dance studio.
Celia began her professional career along with her husband Paco Fonta with the Boston Flamenco ballet. Celia Fonta has been guest artist and teacher in flamenco workshops and concerts all over Florida and the United States. Celia was a recipient of the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship program as Master Artist, and has received an Individual artist Fellowship award from the state of Florida.
She and her husband formed "Siempre Flamenco," a not for profit company dedicated to promoting awareness of flamenco music and dance and to preserve its art and traditions.
Paco Fonta is internationally recognized as a virtuoso flamenco guitarist, singer and composer. Born in a small town near Jaen Spain, he learned to sing flamenco by listening to his grandmother sing at home. In 1986, Paco came to Miami to open the famous Cacharittos Place Tablao. Since then he has worked at all the tablaos in Miami and now produces his own flamenco show to sellout crowds at several Miami establishments.
Paco Fonta was twice recipient of the Florida Folk life Apprenticeship Program as Master artist and has been nominated along with his wife for the prestigious Florida Folk Heritage award.
Flamenco music and dance comes from the Southern part of Spain called Andalusia. It has its roots in the medieval music of Spain with strong Moorish Jewish and Gypsy influences. It developed out of the cry of a persecuted people after the Spanish inquisition when the Moors, gypsies and Jews were banned from Spain. In the past two hundred years the gypsies have adopted flamenco as their own and have since had the greatest influence on its recent development.
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Article published on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007
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