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 RESPIRAME - DIÁLOGOS 2006 VIDEO Photo by Assaf Stoler  JUEGO FLAMENCO - ALEX THEATRE 2004 VIDEO Photo by Paul Schrier  BULERIAS   |
Rosa Negra Flamenco is a company founded in Los Angeles 1998 by Deborah Greenfield, dedicated to the creation of flamenco work ranging from the traditional to the experimental for film and theatre. A recent program of new stage and film work, Diálogos, supported by a grant from Dance USA and the Irvine Foundation, played to sold out and standing room only houses during its October 2006 season at Hollywood's Unknown Theater. (See some of this new work on the video gallery page - DVD also available. Previous projects include Madrugada, a short film that has screened internationally at dance film festivals and a multimedia flamenco-theatre production of the same name, inspired by Bram Stoker's Dracula and produced with a COLA Fellowship from the City of LA. In past years the company has also performed as part of the Hollywood Bowl's Summersounds season, made a guest appearance with the LA Philharmonic and presented works commissioned for the Arab-esque ~ Contemporary World Dance concert at Glendale's Alex Theatre. Deborah starts from the point of view that Flamenco is such a powerful art form that it can go wherever an artist's particular expression chooses to take it, as long its essential gestural, sensual and rhythmic force is not compromised. As well as collaborations with top LA flamenco musicians such as guitarist Kai Narezo and cajonista Patric Oliver, Deborah Greenfield's work with Rosa Negra explores placing flamenco in different contexts, fusing it with other dance forms, dancing it to different music and telling with it unexpected stories. Others of Deborah's adventures with flamenco dance include concerts with the rock n' roll group, Jane's Addiction (review excerpt), dancing a solo to a version of Hendrix's Wind Cries Mary in the flamenco dance-theatre production Al Cielo con Ella, and working as dancer and flamenco consultant for Jennifer Lopez's video, Ain't It Funny. return to top |
 CODE PINK, DIÁLOGOS 2006 VIDEO Photo by Assaf Stoler  MADRUGADA - THE VIDEO  WIND CRIES MARY  DEBORAH GREENFIELD & AMANDA NÁVAR AT THE KEY CLUB, LA Photo: Frank Countryman   FUGA IN FUEGO QUIETO |
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