Flamenco Passion 2022
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GUEST ARTISTS

La Lupi

Curro de María

Curro de María

Flamenco dancer & choreographer

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Curro de María

Curro de María

Curro de María

Flamenco guitarist & composer

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Paco Fonta

Curro de María

Jose Moreno

Flamenco singer & guitarist 

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Jose Moreno

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Jose Moreno

 Flamenco dancer, singer, percussionist & guitarist

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David Chiriboga

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Flamenco guitarist

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Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Flamenco percussionist 

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Luis Galvez

Elisabet Torras Aguilera

Elisabet Torras Aguilera

Tenor

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Elisabet Torras Aguilera

Elisabet Torras Aguilera

Elisabet Torras Aguilera

Dancer & choreographer

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Ensemble Español

The Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater celebrates Spain in America through performance, arts education, and community programs that bring the dance, music, and song of Spain to U. S. audiences. For over 45 years, the organization has shared the rich history and contemporary importance of culturally specific art, and maintains this commitment for artists, students, and art lovers the world over.

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SYMPOSIUM · KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

La Lupi

Dr. K. Meira Goldberg

Miguel Ángel Rosales

is the director and choreographer of her own company. She produces Flamenco shows and performs at festivals, theaters, clubs, recitals, conferences, as well as working as a teacher in her own flamenco school.

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Miguel Ángel Rosales

Dr. K. Meira Goldberg

Miguel Ángel Rosales

is a Spanish anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. In 2004 he began his first projects as a documentary filmmmaker. Gurumbé is his first feature film.

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Dr. K. Meira Goldberg

Dr. K. Meira Goldberg

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

is a Flamenco performer, teacher, choreographer and historian. Her monograph, Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco won the Barnard Hewitt Award for best 2019 book in theatre history or cognate disciplines, as well as Honorable Mention for the Sally Banes Publication Award. 

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Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

is a master cajón player. He has more than 12 Latin Grammy nominations and is a winner of a Latin Grammy in 2010 for best rock album of the year for Será by La Vida Boheme. 

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Yinka Esi Graves

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Yinka Esi Graves

is a Flamenco dancer. Born in London to Ghanaian and Jamaican parents, Yinka started taking dance classes at the age of 5. Currently based in Seville in Spain. She began dancing Flamenco at the age of 21 and has not looked back.

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Otis Sallid

Diego "El Negro" Alvarez

Yinka Esi Graves

Otis Sallid is a director, choreographer, and producer whose accomplishments in theater, television, and film are known throughout the entertainment industry.

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Irma Suárez Ruiz

Irma Suárez Ruiz

Irma Suárez Ruiz

Artistic Director for the Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois.

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Briseyda Zárate

Irma Suárez Ruiz

Irma Suárez Ruiz

is an inspired and skilled Professional Flamenco Dancer, Choreographer, and Master Teacher from Los Angeles, CA. 

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Juan Dies

Irma Suárez Ruiz

José Luis Ovalle

is the co-founder and executive director of Sones de Mexico Ensemble, a Chicago folk music group that specializes in the Mexican musical tradition known as son.

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José Luis Ovalle

Brenda Torres-Figueroa

José Luis Ovalle

original founding director of the Mexican Folkloric Dance Company of Chicago 

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Brenda Torres-Figueroa

Brenda Torres-Figueroa

Brenda Torres-Figueroa

 is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and art educator, born and raised in Puerto Rico, and working mainly in performance art, installations, and public art.

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Tito Rodríguez

Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Tito Rodríguez

founder of AfriCaribe. AfriCaribe provides Chicago with a means to celebrate the African influence in Puerto Rico and other Caribbean lands.

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Jorge Perez

Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Tito Rodríguez

Executive & Associate Artistic Director of Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, Illinois.

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Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild

is an American cultural historian, performer, choreographer, and anti-racist cultural worker.

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Dr. Gloria Gibson

Dr. Gloria Gibson

Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild

President of Northeastern Illinois University

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Patricia Ortega

Dr. Gloria Gibson

Patricia Ortega

Flamenco singer with Mexican / Cuban musical roots

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Orbert Davis

Dr. Gloria Gibson

Patricia Ortega

Emmy-Award winning trumpeter, composer and educator Orbert Davis is co-founder, conductor and artistic director of Chicago Jazz Philharmonic

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Sarita S. Connelly

Sarita S. Connelly

Sarita S. Connelly

sits on the Board of Directors of the Oak Park Area Arts Council, Chicago Dancers United, and the Chicago Dance History Project as well as the Advisory Board of Directors of Roosevelt University Chicago College of the Performing Arts and Blue Star Families – Chicago Chapter.

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Pepe Vargas

Sarita S. Connelly

Sarita S. Connelly

Founder & Executive Director at International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago.

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Carlos Cardenas

Sarita S. Connelly

Carlos Cardenas

Senior Vice President Wintrust Bank

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Lauren Warnecke

Lauren Warnecke

Carlos Cardenas

is a freelance arts and culture writer, educator and administrator.

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Cesar Rolon

Lauren Warnecke

Cesar Rolon

CEO Imagen Consultants Inc. Founder – Latino Fashion Week.

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Erin Harkey

Lauren Warnecke

Cesar Rolon

is the Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE)

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American Spanish Dance & Music Festival 2022

Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater

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