Pasion y Arte presented "Flamenco de las Americas: A Tablao Experience" at the Shubin Theatre in Philadlphia. A wonderful evening filled with passion, art, great dancing, singing, and music!
Founded by Bolivian-born Elba Hevia y Vaca in 2000, Pasion y Arte quickly achieved a reputation for staging groundbreaking contemporary feminist flamenco dances that are simultaneously deeply steeped in the teachings of the southern Spanish masters and Hevia y Vaca's personal experiences as a woman, Latina, Boliviana, and American. She is not alone. Other contemporary choreographers create experimental work influenced by the homegrown culture of Latin America and the US, which is why Hevia y Vaca has decided to initiate a special series of three annual tablao performances featuring Flamenco de Las Americas.
