The Art of Flamenco

Flamenco_Belen Maya

The Foundation for Iberian Music has co-organized an upcoming flamenco lecture and performance at the Clark Museum. The performance, which will be on Sunday, June 12 at 3 pm, features the great Belén Maya, who will be dancing along with guitarist José Luis Rodríguez.

Maya is daughter of the internationally renowned flamenco dancer Mario Maya, and she has served as principal dancer of his New York based dance company, Mario Maya Flamenco. She represented the “new generation” of flamenco in Carlos Saura’s film Flamenco (1995). Rodríguez has been named as on of the 20 best flamenco guitarists in Spain (Felix Grande, Agenda Flamenca, 1995) and he has received numerous prizes for his playing. He is aksi co-founder of Nu Flamenco Collaborative, a US-based foundation dedicated to promoting all forms of flamenco.

Tickets are $25 ($22 members).