Evento

SONIA OLLA & ISMAEL DE LA ROSA "TABLAO SEVILLA". GUEST ARTIST: CHIARA MANGIAMELI

Performances:
7:30 7:45 pm. Guest Artists
7:45-8:45 pm. Sonia Olla & Ismael de la Rosa

Tablao Sevilla, will recreate the "tablaos" café setting found in the traditional tablaos of Spain. All the emotion, drama and passion of traditional flamenco will be experience in this tribute to the art form. Effervescent heel-and-toe step combinations and volcanic shoulder and hip actions will present flamenco in its most pure and improvised form.
Sonia Olla Flamenco dancer
Ismael Fernández Flamenco singer
Ángel Ruíz Flamenco guitar

SONIA OLLA Flamenco Dancer. Bailaora
Born in Barcelona, Sonia Olla is a well-known flamenco dancer. She trained in Condal at the Instituto de Teatro y Danza where she specialized in Flamenco dance. After training with high caliber flamenco artists and teachers such as Merche Esmeralda, Manolo Marin, Mariquilla, and Antonio Canales, she began her professional career in the Rafael Amargo Company, followed by other artistic projects, the most notable being with Domingo Ortega, Aida Gomez, Nuevo Ballet Espanol, Eva la Yerbabuena, Rafaela Carrasco, and Maria Pages.
(Tiempo al aire) "Time in the air" sets free the mature creativity of these two performers, setting new ground for this art form.

CHIARA MANGIAMELI
A native Italian, Chiara Mangiameli is a well-respected teacher and performer in the Chicago area and the Midwest having studied flamenco dance and singing in Seville Spain with, among others, Juan Polvillo, La Choni, Carmen Gamero, Miguel Vargas and singer Esperanza Fernandez. Other dancers that have shaped her aesthetic are Paloma Gomez, former dancer of the Ballet Nacional de España and Soledad Barrio.
Chiara is the co-founder of the music trio Idilio, with which she released her debut album in 2009 and has collaborated with some of Chicago's most critically acclaimed groups including Las Guitarras De España, Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater and Chicago Sinfonietta.

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