Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival announces its spellbinding 2018 lineup of local and international flamenco artists, September 21-29, 2018 with free workshops and ticketed performances at various Vancouver venues.

Vancouver International Flamenco Festival

When: September 21-29, 2018
Where: Vancouver Playhouse, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, Annex, the Kino, Vancouver Public Library

La Azulita Flamenco Ensemble, dancer Megan Matheson. Photo by Levent Erutku Photography.

The Vancouver International Flamenco Festival proudly presents the Canadian debut of Spain’s Sara Calero Company in Petisa Loca at the Vancouver Playhouse on September 22nd. Sara Calero is one of the main current references in the renewal of both Spanish and flamenco dance. The company’s piece shares the diaspora diaries of a woman and all women as thousands of Spaniards were forced to emigrate between Europe and America in the mid-twentieth century. Petisa Loca features dancer/choreographer Sara Calero, singer Loreto Arnaiz, guitarist José Almarcha, and the electronic music of The Lab.

The Festival also features some of the finest Canadian Flamenco artists with performances at the intimate Annex (Orpheum). Here is the schedule at a glance:

As one of few celebrated festivals devoted to Flamenco Art in North America, the VIFF has since its beginnings in 1990 grown to a mature understanding of Vancouver’s multicultural audiences by nurturing the form’s hybridized roots in Sephardic, Persian, Gypsy and Indian cultures and by striving to reflect and connect its diverse sociocultural identity through work narratives underlining flamenco’s universal message of humanistic tolerance.

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I have a pair of tickets to give away to Spain’s Sara Calero Company performance at the Vancouver Playhouse on September 22nd. Here’s how you can enter to win:

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