November 29 - 30, 2014 Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm
Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos are delighted to announce the revival of one of their most popular programs, Canciones, featuring flamenco dance set to traditional and popular songs. Guest artists Marina Elana, Manuel Gutierrez and Jesus Montoya join the ensemble in interpretations of music by Ray Charles, Leonard Cohen, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, The Police and many more. Canciones runs for only two performances over Thanksgiving weekend, November 29 - 30, 2014.
This month's performances mark the third incarnation of Canciones, which premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2008. The flexible program has featured different songs each time, but what remains the same is a refreshing approach to the conventions of flamenco. Canciones offers audiences iconic flamenco songs - for example, Paco de Lucia's "La Leyenda del Tiempo" - as well as flamenco interpretations of songs such as Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
"Cohen's 'Hallelujah' reaches similar depths of feeling in me as many of the great flamenco canciones," says Yaelisa, company founder and Emmy Award-winning choreographer. "It pulls at the heartstrings with a power that we might call duende, and I knew at a certain point that I had to dance it."
Other works on the program include "A Song for You" by Ray Charles, a selection made by dancer Gutierrez, and "Because" written by John Lennon for the Beatles, a selection made by company Music Director and virtuoso guitarist Jason McGuire "El Rubio." Molly Rogers, who currently serves on faculty at the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training Program, will accompany Devon LaRussa, a former member of the Oakland Ballet, in an interpretation of "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by The Police.
In all, the company will perform more than a dozen songs including solos, duets and full-company numbers.
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