The Vanaver Caravan is honored to co-produce the Hudson Valley Flamenco Festival with our beloved alumna, Company Member, and SummerDance faculty member, Anna Librada. Join us this weekend!
About the Hudson Valley Flamenco Festival
Every August the Flamenco Festival transforms the arts scene in the Hudson Valley to create an experience of flamenco that doesn’t exist anywhere else outside of Spain with:
flamenco flash mobs
cooking classes
workshops for all ages
flamenco shows in intimate settings
high performance art in local theatres
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Flamenco for Everybody
Saturday, August 14th 11:30am
Safe Harbors Green
Corner of Broadway and Liberty Street, Newburgh.
Free Admission
Andreas Arnold: An Evening of Flamenco Guitar
Saturday, August 14th. 6pm
Sculpture Garden Stage
Unison Arts, New Paltz
“Original magic and scintillating virtuosity…”
Guitarist and composer Andreas Arnold lives between Cádiz, Spain and Brooklyn, NY. He has released several albums that feature his original compositions which are explorations between flamenco and jazz, two musical traditions among many, that inspire him the most.
Flamencos in the Wild
Sunday, August 15th at 6pm
Whitecliff Vineyards, Gardiner, NY
From the stunning landscape of Whitecliff Vineyards bring your picnic baskets and sample some local vintages as we transport you to a private flamenco party as they give in Southern Spain. We are going to sing and dance the night away in true flamenco puro tradition.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Anna Librada :
Producer and Creative Director
Anna Librada Georges is a classically trained teaching and performing artist with international experience. She has taught percussive dance, flamenco, modern, world dance and yoga throughout the United States, Spain, Italy and Japan. Anna was a featured soloist at the 2010 world premiere of Earthbeat! at Jacob’s Pillow’s Doris Duke Theatre. She has performed at many venues throughout the Northeast and is a longtime member of Vanaver Caravan. Anna moved to Spain, her father’s homeland, to immerse herself in flamenco. She studied with greats La Presy, Ivan Vargas and Fuensanta “La Moneta” and in Sevilla with Isabel Bayon, Manuel Betanzo and Andres Marin. Anna holds a BA in Dance and Arts Management from Emerson College and a Masters of Social Work from Yeshiva University. She lives in Maryland with her husband and daughters.
Andreas Arnold
As an artist in a globalized world, Andreas Arnold expresses himself through a musical kaleidoscope that reflects the classical traditions of his homeland Germany, jazz from the US where he has been living for the last decade, and music from the Mediterranean, in particular the Spanish art form of flamenco. Through this unique fusion, Arnold proves that purity is not defined by any one culture or style but transpires when one finds his voice to express his personal experience in society, art, and life. While living between New York City and Andalusia, Spain, Arnold has participated in numerous productions as an instrumentalist, composer, improviser, and producer, touring on five continents. On his new album Ojos Cerrados he was accompanied among others by Carles Benavent, legendary and longtime bass player of Paco de Lucia. To date, Arnold has released three albums of original electric and acoustic music under his name. Because of his strong affinity with the Mediterranean, the Goethe Institut Paris commissioned him in 2013 to bring the multimedia performance Suite Camus to the stage. The following year he produced Dunya, the second album of Jordanian vocalist Farah Siraj as well as, A Contraluz, flutist Maria Toro’s debut album that featured the rhythm section of Jean Michel-Pilc, Ben Street and Justin Brown. His latest work Ojos Cerrados, on which he collaborated with vocalists Antonio Lizana, Carles Denia, and Alfonso Cid was recorded in Barcelona and is the vision of flamenco-jazz for an ever-evolving artist.
Bárbara Martinez
Bárbara Martinez grew up performing in New York City. Originally from Venezuela, she comes from a lineage of Argentinian tango singers, including her grandmother Morenita Rey and great-aunt Libertad Lamarque. For almost 20 years Bárbara has worked as a dancer and singer with several flamenco dance companies, as well as productions of Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera, where she sang as a child.
In 2010, Barbara performed to a sold out house at Carnegie Hall/Weill, singing an eclectic repertoire of flamenco, Latin and world music with a magnificent group of musicians. She has appeared in the documentary “Sobre Las Olas – A Story of Flamenco in the U.S.” by Carolina Loyola-Garcia and the photography exhibit entitled “100 Years of Flamenco in New York