Ole! Flamenco fever is about to hit Perth, and the dance scene is abuzz with Perth’s Inaugural Flamenco Festival on Sunday 28 April 2019.
Showcasing the full breadth of the WA flamenco scene, the Festival offers free family-friendly activities from 12pm-5pm followed by a gala performance featuring Inmaculada Ortega direct from Jerez de la Frontera, the heart of flamenco in Spain.
Inmaculada Ortega’s performances are described as powerful and charismatic, loaded with elegance and charm. She will be joined on stage by Perth’s own Jose Giraldo (guitar), Manolo Munoz (vocals), and Steve Richter (percussion), as well as the full breadth of the WA flamenco dance community, together for the first time for this showcase event.
The festival is being coordinated by The Flamenco Collective, a group of Perth’s finest Flamenco dancers and teachers. They are the who’s who of Perth’s Spanish dance scene with the majority directors of their own performance companies and dance schools.
“I’m excited to be working with Inmaculada Ortega. To work alongside an artist of this calibre is a great honour and a fantastic way to kick off The Flamenco Collective’s inaugural festival,” said Farida Rabih, director of Casa Del Compas, Perth’s largest Spanish dance school and the director and principal dancer of performance company, Flamenco Puro.
The Perth Flamenco Festival seeks to grow and strengthen a Spanish arts community by sharing the vibrancy and diversity of flamenco and Spanish culture and arts.
“We’re all thrilled to be a part of this unique festival experience,” said Karen Mooney, co-director of the newly established Spanish Dance Company and owner of Spanish costume and accessories company, Fuego Flamenco. “The flamenco scene has been brewing in little pockets around Perth for a while now, but the festival marks a first for bringing all these groups together as a united flamenco community,” added Karen.
The Perth Flamenco Festival will be held at Claremont Showground’s Gate One Theatre from 12pm on Sunday 28 April 2019.