Flamenco in New York City is at Spanish social clubs in Manhattan and Queens, some restaurants and bars, and many theaters.
Flamenco is Spanish, but some Spanish flamenco traditions are from the Caribbean and South America. Caribbean flamenco dancers made New York a flamenco city.
We have a couple of great legacy Spanish flamenco dance companies, and many excellent newcomers, from both Spain and the Americas.
The Flamenco Festival New York brings a new crop of the best flamenco musicians and dancers from Spain to New York City as they start their American tours.
The Flamenco Festival New York City Center anchors the festival with the very best flamenco dancers from Spain.
The Flamenco Certamen is the USA flamenco talent competition.
Flamenco Shows and Concerts
Nélida Tirado Flamenco Arte 718, Traditional Flamenco at Bronx Music Hall
BRONX MUSIC HALL, Melrose, The Bronx 🇵🇷
CHEZ MESSY, Washington Heights, Manhattan 🇵🇷
Continue Reading Nélida Tirado Flamenco Arte 718, Traditional Flamenco at Bronx Music Hall
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Tablao
LE POISSON ROUGE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan ~ Flamenco Tablao 🇪🇸
JOYCE THEATER, Chelsea, Manhattan “Equilibrio (Clásica/Tradición)” 🇪🇸
MIDTOWN Manhattan
Israel Fernández and Diego Del Morao Play the Flamenco Festival New York for the World Music Institute at Merkin Hall
MERKIN HALL KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER, Lincoln Square, Manhattan 🇪🇸
Flamenco Festival New York City Center Brings the Best Dancers From Spain to New York
Meet the artists at the Flamenco Festival New York City Center 2024: National Ballet of Spain, Olga Pericet, and in the Gala Flamenca. 🇪🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇸
Tomatito Opens the Flamenco Festival New York for the World Music Institute at The Town Hall
THE TOWN HALL, Midtown, Manhattan ~ Multiple Latin Grammy winning Spanish Romani flamenco jazz guitarist. 🇪🇸
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New York Flamenco
New York’s legacy flamenco dance companies are Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, but there are others now.
We have great flamenco dancers from the Caribbean and South America.
New York Flamenco Companies
- Bárbara Martínez 🇦🇷 🇻🇪
- Flamenco Latino dance company 🇪🇸
- Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana 🇪🇸
- Nélida Tirado 🇵🇷
- Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca 🇪🇸
New York Flamenco Venues
La Nacional Spanish social club in Chelsea, and Centro Español de Queens, in Astoria, are Spanish flamenco venues. These clubs and theaters present some flamenco:
- Arts Flamenco artsflamenco.org 🇪🇸
- Elebash Hall at the Graduate Center
- Instituto Cervantes New York 🇪🇸
- Jazz at Lincoln Center
- Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater
- Joyce Theater
- Le Poisson Rouge
- Merkin Hall Kaufman Music Center
- New York City Center
- Repertorio Español 🇨🇺
- Roulette Intermedium
- Terraza 7 🇨🇴
- Thalia Spanish Theatre 🇪🇸
- The Town Hall
Flamenco Festival New York
The Flamenco Festival is produced out of Madrid. Many Spanish artists spend the holidays with their families in Spain before heading back out into the world to work in the spring.
The Flamenco Festival New York brings Spain’s top flamenco musicians and dancers to venues across New York City. It is the first stop on their American tours.
The Flamenco Festival New York City Center anchors the festival with the very best flamenco dancers and flamenco dance companies.
They usually start their tour at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, one of the world’s most prestigious dance theaters.
Spanish Flamenco
Andalusía, the southern tip of Spain, is the flamenco heartland. Flamenco is very Spanish, but has influences from Asia and the Americas.
Flamenco is a Romani tradition. It absorbed influences along the road of the Romani migration from northern India, where they were traveling court musicians.
The road starts through what are now Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. A northern route passed through Türkiye and Europe. A southern route passed through Arab lands, and North Africa. The Muslim call to prayer becomes the flamenco cry, which an oriental temperament.
The cajon (African Diaspora box drum) and rumba flamenca are traditions from the Americas that have become traditional flamenco. In fact, the wealth of Iberia came from the Americas.
Purists criticize her for being from Barcelona, but Rosalía’s urban flamenco fusions have triggered a global flamenco renaissance.
This Romani Spanish dance is one of the proofs that for humans, there is no such thing as pure. We are the most beautiful mixes of each other.
Flamenco is not a source of Latin music because flamenco developed after the roots of Latin music were established in the Americas. But flamenco blends beautifully with many kinds of Latin music. It fits perfectly with clave, the African and Afro-Cuban bell pattern that defines a lot of Latin music.
¡Olé!
Some Duende
Duende is a state of relaxed concentration, that some call flow, possession, divine inspiration, or great art. It is the spirit of flamenco.
Flamenco Artists
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