The bailaora performs March 23rd to 25th at Suzanne Dellal Dance Center in Tel Aviv

Flamenco-world.com, February 2006

Adi Foundation continues its work to spread flamenco around Israel. From March 23rd to 25th, 2006, a new edition is to be held of the Flamenco Days Festival at Suzanne Dellal Dance Center in Tel Aviv and on the 22nd in Haifa. This edition is going to feature Sevillian bailaora Ángeles Gabaldón, star of the show ‘Taller Flamenco’, a laboratory in which long-forgotten styles are recovered such as the zambra on piano, the serrana and the guajira. There will also be room in the program for the local production ‘Carmen’, choreographed by Valeri Panov and Sharon Sagi, besides a matinee with Israeli flamenco groups and ‘Don Juan in Flamenco Land’ for children.

	Ángeles Gabaldón (Photo: Daniel Muñoz)

Ángeles Gabaldón will be accompanied at the Israeli festival by bailaores Lidia Valle, Felipe Mato and Víctor Daniel Gómez, guitarists Óscar Lago and Manuel Pérez, cantaores Vicente Muñoz and Juan Reina, percussionist Antonio Montiel and pianist Miguel Ángel López. Together, they will rescue styles from oblivion like the zambra on piano, the farruca, the guajira and the serrana, among others, “but reinterpreted from the contemporaneousness of today's flamenco”. ‘Taller flamenco’ is a small-scale show by the Ángeles Gabaldón Company, which has already put on productions such as ‘Inmigración’ at several flamenco festivals.

Also to be staged is a version of ‘Carmen’ co-produced by Panov Ballet Theater and Adi Foundation, performed by the Duende Company and choreographed by Israelis Valeri Panov and Sharon Sagui, establishing a dialogue between classical ballet and flamenco. Moreover, on the 24th the festival offers the show ‘Israeli Flamenco Matinee’ with seven young local companies and a bata de cola workshop with Ángeles Gabaldón, while on the 25th the performance is scheduled of ‘Don Juan in Flamenco Land’ for children.

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