Anda Flamenco News
Anda Flamenco on You Tube!
Check out our latest videos on You Tube, including a recent rehearsal for Festival 9. Just go to http://www.youtube.com and type in "anda flamenco."Check out our latest videos on You Tube, including a recent rehearsal for Festival 9. Just go to http://www.youtube.com and type in "anda flamenco."
Kristina de Sacramento Hosts Poquito y Bueno Weekly on KFAI
"Poquito y Bueno," a half-hour weekly worldwide flamenco webcast, premiered in April on KFAI, Fresh Air Radio. One of the oldest alternative radio stations in the country, KFAI wants to begin web-only programming, and Poquito y Bueno was chosen as one of the two webcasts to pioneer this programming decision. The webcast features flamenco music, news, and interviews, and was invited to link with Jerez Jondo, a real honor! Log on and stay connected!
Anda Flamenco Performs February 4 at Conga Latin Bistro
 Anda Flamenco presents "Open Stage: Flamenco Revealed!" once a month at Conga Latin Bistro located at 501 East Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis. It's usually (but not always) scheduled on the first Thursday of the month from 7-9pm (Spanish time, of course...). Hosted by Kristina de Sacramento and Anda guitarist Michael Ziegahn, the ever-changing array of dancers includes members and apprentices from Anda Flamenco Company, students of Anda Flamenco School, and guest artists from both in-town and out-of-town. We chose the name "Flamenco Revealed" because the nature of our "Open Stage" is that since the dancers have not had a chance to rehearse their numbers with the guitarist, the audience gets a rare chance to see the "behind-the-scenes secrets" of how flamenco really comes together when it's improvised at a party in Granada or a peņa in Jerez! And, a VERY important FYI - make sure the hostess seats you so you'll have a waiter to help you take advantage of the happy hour two-for-one drinks and the half-priced appetizers that are no longer served after 7, when we start...
"Festival 9" Premiers at the Lowry Lab Theater
 Anda Flamenco School's extravaganza, two years in the making, was presented at the Lowry Lab Theater in St. Paul on November 21 and 22, 2009. A photo gallery of Festival 9 will be coming soon!
Kristina Brings Flamenco to Children in Local Hospitals and at the Ronald McDonald House
 Kristina is fortunate to be working with Breanna's Gift, a non-profit organization that brings the healing energy of the arts to children thrown into a hospital environment - whether they are the actual patients or the siblings of the patients. Anda Flamenco and The Zapatistas have a long-standing tradition of volunteering performances to raise funds for organizations like Rainbow Families, the Lupus Foundation, and Casa de Esperanza, to name just a few. Kristina is thrilled to take on the recent challenge of developing a method of teaching rhythmic dance to children restricted by wheelchairs or tethered to IVs.
Kristina and Las Rompecorazones on YouTube
 Kristina hooked up with a support group for women with heart disease at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. She lovingly whipped them into shape in just three half-hour sessions in order to perform a snippet of flamenco for a YouTube video. When asked what they wanted to call themselves, the immediate response was - The Heart Breakers! Their flamenco moment was set to Garcia-Lorca lyrics, sung rather miserably by Kristina herself. But the ladies were truly magnificent, and this is just another example of how the joy of dance energizes the body and inspires the soul!
Anda Flamenco will premiere "Seņora Butterfly: A Flamenco Comedy" in 2010, really, truly...
 Luck was with Anda on the night of the 2009 Fringe lottery: our show, Seņora Butterfly landed a place in the August Fringe Festival! We had our theater assigned, we had our performance times and dates ready to publish, we had our story and our scenes written, we had our guest artists making plans for their plane tickets, we were busy picking out kimonos and developing choreographies and then - we discovered that Japanese/flamenco fusion music did not yet exist! That put us in the deliciously ironic position of creating it ourselves (here in Minnesota...), but that wasn't going to happen with the refinement our production deserves in the time we had left before our production opened. So we sadly but wisely gave our slot in the Fringe to another deserving production that had been languishing hopefully on the wait-list. We plan to produce Butterfly in 2010, hopefully at the Fringe. But if Lady Luck of the Lottery is not with us in February 2010, we'll find a theater and produce it ourselves before the year is over. Really, truly... stay tuned for details of our progress.
Our story will center around Seņora Butterfly (Cho Cho San), the post-menopausal ringleader of a group of Spanish ladies who are obsessed with being geishas. Late one night, Cho Cho and the ladies stumble upon a handsome, unconscious Japanese sailor who has washed up on a Spanish beach, and the flamenco comedy unfolds!
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