DCFLAMENCO - Flamenco in Washington DC

Miguelito's Photo Diary/Blog

June 18, 2005 - June 22, 2005

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Intimo in Chicago June 2005
Arte Flamenco's annual student recital June 18, 2005
Arte Flamenco pics from Saturday by Ayhan June 18, 2005
Arte Flamenco at the EBLO Latino Festival in Baltimore June 19, 2005
Practicing on Monday morning June 20, 2005
Cafe Citron June 20, 2005
Red Maple June 21, 2005
Cafe Bonaparte June 22, 2005
Tutto Bene June 22, 2005

Tutto Bene June 22, 2005

Only bad thing about performing almost every night is that I miss out on the shows by my colleagues. This past Wednesday, there was a flamenco show at Tutto Bene in Arlington. Fortunately, someone took pics and emailed them to me. My thanks to Elizabeth!

Torcuatao Zamora. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Mariya Kostytstka. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Gloria de Jerez. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Nora Lopez. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Nora. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Mariya. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Nora, Gloria and Mariya. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Mariya. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Nora. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Gloria. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Debra Belo, Mariya and Torcuato. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Gloria. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Nora. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Gloria, Nora, Debra and Mariya. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

Gloria. June 22, 2005 (photo by Elizabeth)

The next show at Tutto Bene will be on Wednesday July 13, 2005. Call 703-522-1005.

Cafe Bonaparte June 22, 2005

It's been a month since I last played here and it was good to be back. I already miss Spain, and this is the closest thing to a Spanish bar that I've been to in DC so far: tiny rooom, tiny tables, lots of beautiful people and a few of them dancing Sevillanas and a few of them conversing very loudly (ahem!). The only thing missing to the make the experience authentic was excessive cigarette smoke. :-)

Carlton and Danielle. That's Michelle in the back--yeah she cut her hair and it looks good! June 22, 2005 10:19pm (photo by Brigitta)

That's Sophie, in black. June 22, 2005 10:20pm (photo by Brigitta)

Miguelito. June 22, 2005 10:20pm (photo by Brigitta)

Sophie and Danielle. June 22, 2005 10:21pm (photo by Brigitta)

Miguelito, Carlton Ashton, Michelle Goldin and Behzad Habibzai. June 22, 2005 11:21pm (photo by Brigitta)

Flamenco night at Cafe Bonaparte is every other Wednesday. The next show is on July 6, 2005. This place is small, so I recommend making a reservation by calling 202-333-8830.

Red Maple June 21, 2005

The show at Red Maple is every Tuesday around 8pm. Sometime this summer, I'm going to take a Tuesday night off from Las Tapas and go check out the show. Anyone wanna go? Natalia Cuesta sent me these photos from last night's performance.

Tamara Sol Flys, Quique, Juan Delgado, Fausti and Marta Chico Martín. June 21, 2005 (photo courtesy of Natalia Cuesta)

June 21, 2005 (photo courtesy of Natalia Cuesta)

Richard Marlow. June 21, 2005 (photo courtesy of Natalia Cuesta)

June 21, 2005 (photo courtesy of Natalia Cuesta)

Natalia, Javier Bustamante, José Oretea, Juan Delgado, Quique, Richard and Tamara. June 21, 2005 (photo courtesy of Natalia Cuesta)

Fausti and Natalia. June 21, 2005 (photo courtesy of Natalia Cuesta)

Natalia writes:
¿Como estás? I am sending you some of the pictures I took yesterday at the Red Maple. The show was so good… I really like Tamara and Richard! They were amazing. José Oretea and Javier Bustamante joined the two of them with their great voices and the rest of the group accompanied with palmas. I think you know everybody in the pictures, so I am not sending names, right? We had so much fun yesterday… We missed you. After the show we danced sevillanas and stayed until they closed, and then we all went to Fausty’s house, where we continued with the party until 3:30 am! You will notice there is a picture of Fausty and me displaying a number two with our fingers… This was our second night out in a row, and I think there are more to come…

The flamenco show at Red Maple is every Tuesday night around 8pm. Call (410)547-0149.

Cafe Citron June 20, 2005

It was good to be back. For the first time in four years, I took two consecutive Mondays off from Citron to take a vacation in Spain.

My new friend here is Safoura Safavi, a Sweden-based flamenco guitarist and singer who frequently travels to Sevilla to study at the Cristina Heeren Foundation. The CD in my hand is by guitarist Johan Moberg and features Safoura singing the chorus in the bulería, Siete Cartas. (Listen to some sample tracks)

Safoura and Miguelito. June 20, 2005 9:51pm

Fausti (who came all the way from Baltimore) and Miguelito. June 20, 2005 10:15pm

Chris Kobar, Roxanne and Steve Svoboda. June 20, 2005 10:17pm

Chris is a awesome party host and pro web developer who used to maintain the Spanish Dance Society website where he also took dance classes.

Fausti and Natalia Cuesta dancing Sevillanas. June 20, 2005 10:26pm

June 20, 2005 10:26pm

Jason Vera y Aragón and Natalia. June 20, 2005 10:27pm

Jason brought his cajón and joined us onstage for both shows adding that special edge that made the show better than usual--I could tell based on the cheers from the crowd.

June 20, 2005 10:31pm

My thanks to Fausti and Natalia for coming a long way to support my show here at Citron. June 20, 2005 10:35pm

June 20, 2005 10:42pm

Time to go check out the other clubs down the street. June 20, 2005 11:20pm (photo by Steve)

June 20, 2005 11:20pm (photo by Steve)

Practicing on Monday morning June 20, 2005

We got back very late to DC after our gig in Baltimore, so I crashed at guitarist Henry's house. In the morning, I saw a chair by the sunlit window that looked perfect for practicing guitar, and so I did. Of course, we ended up talking about guitar and flamenco for awhile and made him late for work. Oh well! :-)

June 20, 2005 9:04am

Arte Flamenco at the EBLO Latino Festival in Baltimore June 19, 2005

Day two with Arte Flamenco. The sky was overcast and threatening rain but that didn't stop us or the crowds from coming to the Latino festival.

Arte Flamenco director Natalia Monteleon. June 19, 2005 5:38pm

Walking towards the backstage performers' entrance. June 19, 2005 5:38pm

I was starving so I left my guitar in the dressing room and walked around the festival to check out the food booths.

This is the view of the stage from the audience side. June 19, 2005 5:54pm

A closer view of the stage from the back. June 19, 2005 6:16pm

Alex and Erika Olander rehearsing Guajiras. June 19, 2005 6:16pm

June 19, 2005 6:16pm

June 19, 2005 6:17pm

Henry Jova warming up and chatting with a flamenco fan. June 19, 2005 6:18pm

Almost showtime...the dancers eagerly waiting to get on stage. June 19, 2005 6:21pm

June 19, 2005 6:21pm

Irena rehearsing her steps. June 19, 2005 6:22pm

Checkout the new green flamenco dress that guest artist, Tamara Sol Flys is wearing. She just got it made in Spain last week! June 19, 2005 6:22pm

Afterwards we went to a restaurant nearby and enjoyed some crabcakes and steamed shrimp, yum! Flamenco, good food and beautiful girls...life is good. :-)

Arte Flamenco's annual student recital June 18, 2005

Guitarist Henry Jova and singer Javier Bustamante. June 18, 2005 12:16pm

Quique. June 18, 2005 12:16pm

Director Natalia Monteleon getting the rehearsal started. June 18, 2005 12:48pm

June 18, 2005 12:48pm

That's Lola, who happens to be a herding kind of dog. I think she looks content cuz her "sheep" are all nicely herded in the studio. :-) June 18, 2005 12:54pm

June 18, 2005 12:54pm

June 18, 2005 12:55pm

Erika Olander and Carolina Reyes. June 18, 2005 12:57pm

Erika and Pam. June 18, 2005 2:27pm

Miguelito, Alex and Natalia Cuesta. June 18, 2005 2:28pm (photo by Quique)

Erika and Irena. June 18, 2005 4:01pm

Julie and Overton. June 18, 2005 4:02pm

Looking for the stage entrance. June 18, 2005 4:05pm

The dressing room. June 18, 2005 4:08pm

Irene, Julie and Sarah. June 18, 2005 4:42pm

Director Natalia Monteleon. working out sound and lights. June 18, 2005 4:42pm

A few hours later, the student recital started at 7pm. Time flew by for me since I was onstage the whole time. I was having fun trying to guess who amongst the students will become featured performers in the future.

Most of the dancers that I call upon for my own gigs happen to be her former (and current) students and for a good reason--Natalia trains them well as dancers, performers and in how to work with a guitarist and a singer.

Pam and Alex still psyched after the show. They try out some of the guys' choreography. June 18, 2005 9:14pm

For more info about Arte Flamenco, visit their website at www.arteflamenco.us

Arte Flamenco pics from Saturday by Ayhan June 18, 2005

June 18, 2005 (photo by Ayhan Ozdag)

Intimo in Chicago June 2005

Aleksey writes:
I am sending you some of the pictures that I took in Chicago of Edwin's presentation of "Intimo" at the Hot House this past weekend. Kathi Beste as always gets kudos for getting things together for this show to ensure its success. Yiyi, Jesus Montoya, Richard Marlow, Anna Menendez, Edwin, and Carmela Greco yet again really kicked butt.

June 2005 (photo by Aleksey Kulikov)

Photos taken with the Olympus Stylus 300 Digital Camera

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