Flamenco in Photos

The Flamenco Festival has been bringing Spain's greatest flamenco artists to New York City Center for twenty years. This year's two-week run saw the National Ballet of Spain, Premio Nacional de Danza winner Olga Pericet in her intimate solo piece, “La Leona,” and Gala Flamenca, highlighting dance talents Manuel Liñán, Alfonso Losa, El Yiyo, and Paula Comitre, accompanied by vocalist Sandra Carrasco. Steven Pisano photographed the festival for Fjord Review.

National Ballet of Spain. Photograph by Steven Pisano

The National Ballet of Spain performing at the Flamenco Festival at New York City Center.

Gala Flamenco at the Flamenco Festival at New York City Center.

The National Ballet of Spain at the Flamenco Festival at New York City Center.

Gala Flamenca at the Flamenco Festival at New York City Center.

Olga Pericet in “La Leona” at the Flamenco Festival at New York City Center.

Steven Pisano

comments

Featured

REVIEWS | Gracia Haby

Feathers Flying

In a world where Tchaikovsky meets Hans Christian Andersen, circus meets dance, ducks transform and hook-up with swans, and of course a different outcome emerges.

REVIEWS | Karen Greenspan

Half the Sky

Mao Zedong’s famous statement that women hold up half the sky may sound poetic and even liberating.

REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Agile Masculinity

The men are already on stage when the audience filters into the theater. Some stand stretching at the ballet barres, aligned in neat rows, and others move around, jumping, swinging their legs, lunging.

REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

Dance Dance Revolution

The questions that the choreographic duo known as Baye & Asa set out to answer in their in-progress work, “At the Altar” may or may not be rhetorical: Who or what do we worship? How do we worship? Who are the righteous? Who are the blasphemous?