Flamenco Festival 2018 on Tour: Miami

Flamenco Festival tours the U.S., bringing the best Spanish Flamenco artists to Miami and other cities around the nation.

Flamenco Festival celebrates 18 years bringing jondo art to the USA, promoting the culture of dialogue through the exchange of Flamenco with Jazz and world music. For another year, the most renowned venues around the world, such as Carnegie Hall, the NY City Center or the Lincoln Center, will host this annual rendez-vous with Flamenco, featuring the some of today’s most important Flamenco artists.

Flamenco, the most recognizable Spanish artistic expression abroad, will be featured again on a North American tour in March, totaling 41 representations, 24 of them in 8 different locations in New York, plus another 17 shows across the U.S. in cities such as Miami, Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Irvine or Portland.

Flamenco Festival on Tour: Miami

Suite Sevilla by Ballet Nacional de España

• On March 8 and 9 at 8 pm.
• On March 10 at 3 pm and 8 pm.
• At The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132. Buy tickets.

Ballet Nacional de España (BNE), under the direction of Antonio Najarro, is the greatest exponent of Spanish dance, showcasing all of Spain’s dance styles on the most important stages in the world, through very different shows ranging from classic to the avant-garde, as in Suite Sevilla. Its director takes on new choreographic projects featuring young choreographers with very different personalities and dance aesthetics with the main aim of propagating and preserving Spanish dance and reaching the widest possible audience.

Andalusian Voices: Tempo of Light

• On March 11 at 7 pm.
• At The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132. Buy tickets.

Tempo of Light is an all-star show featuring some of the leading voices in Spain today, in a virtuosic display ranging from the gypsy roots of Flamenco to modern innovations. Under the musical direction of Isidro Muñoz, composer and producer of Flamenco legends such as Camarón and Enrique Morente, this special evening includes dancer Ana Morales, former principal dancer of Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia.

Carmen Linares’ flamenco intensity, its alchemy of passion…rose to furious, desperate timeless invocations of lost love. Ms. Heredia’s mercurial, impassioned voice was at the center of the music, moving between clarity and rasp, sorrow and rage, tragedy and exultation. Arcangel is a tenor with all the dark tension that characterizes the best flamenco singers, he can sing with terrific attack and excitement, and the rhythmic variety he supplies to a single long coloratura phrase is fascinating.

—The New York Times

Flamenco Rave

• On March 25 at 6 pm.
• At Miami-Dade County Auditorium, 2901 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida 33135. Buy tickets.

Flamenco Rave brings the explosive movement of contemporary Flamenco that is currently taking Spain by storm. With pianist Dorantes and featured artists Daniel Casares, Naike y Paquete, Rosalía & Raül Refree.