The festival is to be held August 4th to 13th at The Barclay in Irvine (California)

Flamenco-world.com, June 2006

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The United States is designing its summer flamenco agenda. New World Flamenco Festival in Irvine (California), which has chosen the slogan ‘Fronteras’ for its 2006 edition, has announced its lineup. The festival will take place August 4th to 13th at The Barclay Theater. The Californian festival firms itself up in this fifth edition with a two-fold regard. On the one hand, at flamenco territory with its own personality, Morón de la Frontera, by bailaora Juana Amaya. And on the other, at an artist with a personality all her own, bailaora Rafaela Carrasco.

	Rafaela Carrasco (Photo: Daniel Muñoz)

The fifth edition of New World Flamenco Festival will be inaugurated when Juana Amaya bursts onto the stage at The Barclay on Friday, August 4th and Sunday the 6th. The Sevillian bailaora is scheduled to premiere the show ‘Morón, a tiempo y a compás’ before the Californian audience, accompanied by guitarist Juan del Gastor and her daughter Nazareth Amaya, plus a group of six other Morón-born artists.

The flamenco winds of this spot in the Sevillian countryside will blow on to Jerez on Tuesday, August 8th and Wednesday the 9th. Presenting themselves under the heading ‘Sin fronteras’ is the group Son de Jerez, consisting of bailaor Andrés Peña, cantaores Manuel de la Malena and Luis Moneo, and guitarists Domingo Rubichi and Juan Manuel Moneo. Next, U.S. artists Yaelisa and Savion Glover join forces in a project which mixes flamenco dancing and tap dancing.

Following the Morón feature, the festival makes way for an artist with a personality all her own in the world of baile, Rafaela Carrasco. From Friday, August 11th to Sunday the 13th in Irvine, the Sevillian bailaora is to put on her company’s latest show, ‘Una mirada al flamenco’, premiered at Festival de Jerez 2005. The show combines several flamenco styles with group and solo choreographies danced to live music by Jesús Torres and Fernando de la Rúa, within elegant, sober esthetics.

The festival also offers flamenco encounters before and after each performance at the Café Flamenco, with typical food and live music. In the educational area, courses stand out by Juana Amaya, Andrés Peña and Jairo Barrul in the baile section (registration); and in guitar with Juan del Gastor and Domingo Rubichi (registration).

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