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Back by popular demand, Selected Works will feature dancer/choreographer Edwin Aparicio and his guest artists Norberto Chamizo from Spain, Felix de Lola from San Francisco, Jesus Montoya from Long Beach, and Timo Nuñez from Los Angeles.
Friday, December 7 at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 8 at 8:00 p.m.
Single tickets are $25
GALA thanks the National Endowment for the Arts for their generous support of FUEGO FLAMENCO III. Our annual flamenco festival is part of ArteAmericA, a performing arts presenting partnership with the Washington Performing Arts Society.
Here's one of several rave reviews written about Aparacio's sold-out performances of Selected Works at GALA in 2006:
"It is advertized as "heart-stopping" but Edwin Aparicio and his flamenco company is so fantastically passionate and fiery that it stops all sense organs! The full house audience at Gala HispanicTheater roared with shouts and applause for every show stopping number. Mr. Aparicio has no equals in his superior footwork that is so speedy that the eyes can only detect blurrs." [...]
"The opening of the second part with "Alegrias" was super spectacular in costuming for the ladies and in synchronized group dancing. When the group of eleven fluttered their hands it seemed like a group of doves taking flight. One can only coin a new phrase "extraordinary plus" to describe this fantastic company."
~Bob Anthony, All Arts Review For You
July 15, 2006
ABOUT APARICIO
Dancer/Choreographer Edwin Aparicio has been described by critics as “the most amazing dancer seen in years” having “hellfire footwork” and choreographies with “beautiful, evocative imagery.” (Washington City Paper)
He is an internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer who has shared the stage with such renowned artists as Carmela Greco, Chuscales, and Silverio Heredia, among others. Mr. Aparacio studied flamenco in Spain with La Tati and Tomá de Madrid, and in 2001 made his flamenco debut at Casa Patas in Madrid. He performed with the Washington Opera at the Kennedy Center in El Gato Mont (1977) and Don Giovanni (2003).Mr. Aparicio toured the United States with Reynaldo Rincón’s Romeria Flamenca, was the featured artist in 2002 and 2005 at the Chicago Flamenco Festival, and appeared at the 2004 and 2005 Flamenco in the Sun Annual Festival in Miami with renowned artists Belen Maya, Pastora Galvan, Pedro Cortes and Jose Luis Rodriguez.
In 2005, he also performed with “Jóvenes Flamenco” as a soloist and a company member at the Centro Cultural de San Bals in Madrid, Spain. Also that year, Mr. Aparacio was the choreographer for GALA’s production of Yerma by Federico García Lorca, the first production to grace GALA's new stage in the restored Tivoli theatre.
Click here to read more about Edwin Aparacio and his company of artsits.