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Lauren Anderson (born February 19, 1965) is an American ballet dancer and a former principal dancer with the Houston Ballet.In 1990, she was one of the first African-American ballerinas to become a principal for a major dance company, an important milestone in American ballet.
In 1994 he joined the Compañia Andaluza de Danza directed by Mario Maya, and over the next decade won just about every top flamenco prize possible, including the Giradillo prize at Seville's flamenco Biennal, the Flamenco Hoy critics’ award for best dancer of the year, which he received in both 2001 and 2005. In the same year he also won ...
Flamenco (Spanish pronunciation: [flaˈmeŋko]) is an art form based on the various music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Extremadura and Murcia.
Since its inception, HDMC has presented the choreography of over 30 artists in Houston and throughout the United States.As of 2013, the company’s repertory consists of 55 pieces, including works by Resident Choreographer Kiki Lucas, Robert Battle (Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater), Doug Bentz, Nina Buisson, Christine Carlson, Joe Celej, Peter Chu (Artistic Director ...
It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style. It is the first part of Saura's 1980s flamenco trilogy, and is followed by Carmen (1983) and El amor brujo (1986). The film depicts Antonio Gades and his dance company performing a flamenco adaptation of Federico García Lorca's play Blood Wedding. As with all Saura's flamenco films, the ...
Desiring more creative control, Cortés formed the Joaquín Cortés Flamenco Ballet company and launched his first international tour 'Cibayí', with other artists such as Antón Jiménez as guitarist, [2] in 1992.The formation of Cortés' own company allowed him to diverge from purist ballet and create his own fusion of flamenco, ballet and ...
The Bill Mraz Dance Hall, located at 835 West 34th Street in Houston, Texas, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1998. However, it was delisted on December 22, 2004, after being destroyed by a fire in October 2004.
Sargent's painting Capri (1878) depicts Rosina Ferrara dancing the tarantella, and anticipates the flamenco of El Jaleo. [6] Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Almost 12 feet (3.7 m) wide, El Jaleo is broadly painted in a nearly monochromatic palette, but for spots of red at the right and an orange at left, which is reminiscent of the lemons Édouard Manet inserted into several of his ...