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Nuevo Flamenco: The Galván Legacy

Pasión y Arte

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Grant Year 2013

Grant Amount $150,000

Status Completed

Updated May 30, 2023

"For dancers of any genre, not just flamenco, [Israel] Galván offers a master class in the art of the possible," writes Judith Mackrell of The Guardian (UK). In Nuevo Flamenco: The Galván Legacy, the centerpiece of its 2014 Flamenco Festival, Pasión y Arte presented two dances choreographed by Israel Galván. This two-week event in March 2014—a follow-up to the 2011 festival, which attracted 1,500 people to eight sold-out Center-funded performances—celebrated both contemporary and traditional practices of flamenco. Galván, winner of the 2012 Gold Medal in Fine Arts from the Spanish Ministry of Culture, is an artist who experiments with conventions of Sevillan flamenco and, along with his sister Pastora Galván, is known for deconstructing performance stereotypes and blurring gender roles. A series of festival events directed by Dr. Michelle Heffner-Hayes, a noted scholar on flamenco dance traditions, included discussions about flamenco's evolution as a living art form.

Primary EventsEvents & Exhibitions

Rosario Toledo at the First Philadelphia Flamenco Festival. Photo by Josh Pelta-Heller.

Philadelphia Flamenco Festival TAPAS Performances

Mar 6–8, 2014
Drexel University, 418 Main Building Dance Studio

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Pastora Galván in Pastora. Photo by Felix Vasquez.

Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Performances of Pastora

Mar 13–14, 2014
Drexel University's Mandell Theater

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Elba Hevia y Vaca of Pasión y Arte. Photo by JJ Tiziou.

Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Performances of Cómplices

Mar 1, 2014
Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square, PA

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Vengo Performance Featuring Rosario Toledo

Mar 9, 2014
WHYY, 150 North 6th Street Philadelphia, PA

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Performances of La Curva with Israel Galván, Inés Bacán, and Sylvie Courvoisier

Mar 15–16, 2014
Drexel University's Mandell Theater

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Supporting Events

Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Screening of Flamenco Hoy

Mar 3, 2014
International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut Street

Master Class with Rosario Toledo

Mar 5, 2014
Drexel University, 418 Main Building Dance Studio

Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Screening of Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding)

Mar 10, 2014
Drexel University URBN Center Annex Screening Room

"Gender, Traditions and Techniques in Flamenco"

Mar 11, 2014
Drexel University, lecture hall TBD

Master Class with Israel Galván at Drexel

Mar 11, 2014
Drexel University, 418 Main Building Dance Studio

Master Class One with Pastora Galván

Mar 14, 2014
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Dance Studio

"Flamenco for Everyone" with Michelle Heffner Hayes

Mar 8, 2014
Drexel University's 418 Dance Studio, 3141 Chestnut Street, 4th Floor, Philadelphia

"Flamenco's Influence on Visual Arts and Popular Culture"

Mar 9, 2014
WHYY, 150 North 6th Street, Philadelphia

"Contemporary Flamenco, Cultural Legacy + Experimental Imperative" with Michelle Heffner Hayes

Mar 15, 2014
Drexel University URBN Center Annex Screening Room

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Interview

Questions of Practice: Flamenco Master Israel Galván on Reinvigorating Tradition

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Pasión y Arte

Pasión y Arte is an all-female dance company that creates challenging and original flamenco works. Led by Artistic Director Elba Hevia y Vaca, the company embraces elements of modern and traditional dances, multimedia, theater, and a progressive cultivation of feminist ideas in its expression of modern flamenco. In 2011, with Center support, Pasión y Arte presented the first-ever Philadelphia Flamenco Festival. The second iteration of the festival will be held in 2014, with performances from flamenco masters Israel and Pastora Galván and Rosario Toledo.

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