A Benefit Performance for the Red Poppy With Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos

Yaelisa and Caminos Flamencos have graciously offered to donate 100% of this night’s proceeds to the Poppy’s goal to raising $30k by the end of 2015! Please come out for this exceptional evening of flamenco and to support the Red Poppy Art House on Friday, August 14, 2015.

Cast:
Yaelisa – dance
Jason McGuir – guitar
Jose Cortes – vocals
Marlon Aldana – percussion
Paul Martin Sounder – upright bass

Caminos Flamencos’ mission is to enrich and educate the community by presenting innovative contemporary and traditional works which reflect the “nuevo flamenco” movement in Spain today. Since 1993, Artistic Director Yaelisa has collaborated with artists in other mediums, incorporating top musicians in the field of jazz, Latin and Afro-Cuban music. Her choreographies have been commissioned by Collage Dance Theatre, Malashock Dance & Company, San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, Stanford Danza Espanola and the Internacional Certamen de Coreografía in Madrid, Spain.

During the last twelve years, Yaelisa has spent extensive periods of time living and performing in Spain, presenting her choreography there and in the U.S. Her choreographies have been commissioned by several modern dance companies, including John Malashock & Company, Rose Polsky and Collage Dance Theatre. In 1995, she was one of 11 choreographers in Spain invited to present a piece at the prestigious Certamen de Coreografia in Madrid, and the only American choreographer chosen among them. In 1996, she returned to the U.S. where she continues to choreograph, develop and train dancers for her company. Creating innovative theatrical presentations has established her as a choreographer of merit; she is the recipient of an Emmy Award for Choreography in 1993 for the PBS program, Desde Cadiz a Sevilla, and a Choreography Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1996.

Admission: $20-50. Doors at 7:30pm. Show at 8:00pm. All ages welcome.

Advance tickets: http://caminosflamencosbenefit.bpt.me

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