31 Aug FL.Flamencos

FUNDarte presents FL.Flamencos, with performances by Rafael Ramírez, Israel Fernández and Diego del Morao, and Maui. 

FL.Flamenco continues FUNDarte’s series dedicated to the Spanish-born genre, presenting a splendidly diverse range of performances, including the latest in both traditional and radically contemporary flamenco forms performed by the most notable and risk-taking artists from Spain.

This season FUNDarte is proud to announce three events that will mark a before and after of the flamenco experience in Miami. The program will start with Lo Preciso, by Rafael Ramírez, on November 2nd and 3rd, at 8:00 p.m., at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium. Lo Preciso (which translates as “exactness” in English) is the newest contemporary Flamenco work by Spanish dancer and choreographer Rafael Ramírez. This intense solo dance work is accompanied by four musicians in a dueling quest for artistic precision. It is an ecstatic call-and-response delivery of the masculine prowess of the genre.

The second show brings Israel Fernández and Diego del Morao in Concert to the Miami Beach Bandshell on November 4th at 8:00 p.m. Experience the tradition of cante jondo and Spanish classical and Flamenco guitar with two of today’s most celebrated young artists innovating the form. In Israel Fernandez and in Diego del Morao, two worlds coexist, the ancient and the contemporary. Israel has managed to rejuvenate the cante of yesteryear, endowing it with new elements and making it appealing to fans today. Diego has the virtue, among many other things, of sounding classical and modern simultaneously.

The closing show of FL.Flamenco is Domingos de Vermut y Potaje, by Maui, on November 5th at 2:00 p.m. at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium. The show that Maui proposes is a mix of theater, music, repentismo, pellizco, and spoken word, using the potaje as the protagonist. To help her in this task, she receives a guest in her kitchen who provides the ideal seasoning for this magic potion. Artists such as Antonio Carmona, La Mari from Chambao, Martirio, Javier Ruibal, Antonio Canales, among many others, have already cooked alongside Maui. 

About the artists:

Rafael Ramírez hails from Malaga, Spain, and became a professional dancer at 11 under the tutelage of such masters as “La Lupi,” Rafael Campallo, Oscar de los Reyes and Javier Barón. His steady ascent has led him to renowned Flamenco festivals, including the Jerez Festival, Gran Teatro Cervantes in Malaga, the Biennale of Seville, and the Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas (La Unión). He has performed throughout the world with the dance companies of luminaries such as Antonio Andrade, Carmen Mota, David Coria, Rafaela Carrasco, and María Pagés and also took the stage at the most prestigious tablaos (flamenco venues) in Seville and Madrid.

There is something truly special about Israel Fernández, a young Toledo, Spain singer whose voice is impregnated with a vast spectrum of characteristics in which anguish, spirit, and the gypsy world coexist with tempo, sweetness and musicality. Israel represents the present of flamenco and is destined to make history in this art. Despite his youth, he has become a reference for fans of cante possessing enormous personality, perfect tuning, a devilish mastery of rhythm, and an inordinate enthusiasm for art representing his way of life.

Diego del Morao is one of the most recognized flamenco guitarists of the moment, both nationally in Spain and internationally. Having be lauded by Paco de Lucia himself, Diego has a legion of followers who are in love with his personality and his passionate sense of rhythm. Diego has been able to create his own music, his own style, without losing respect for the tradition of his roots; his guitar playing is one of the most recognizable among contemporary guitarists.

Sixteen years of wanderings on the stage and five albums to Maui’s credit endorse this unique artist’s career, who has been carving a curious path of albero and blue poppies. Born María Luisa Ramírez, Maui, for art, in Utrera (Seville), niece of the legendary Bambino and daughter of the guitarist and composer Miguel Ramírez (Los Centellas), she grew up in a pure flamenco environment around a pot of potaje, a guitar, and a lot of compás. Far from any known definition, people have come to say that she is the Björk of Utrera, the Lady Gaga of flamenco, the Woody Allen of the song, a diva of humor with compás, a singer-actor… but she is simply Maui, one of a kind in her way of composing, her peculiar aesthetics and her ways on stage.

What: Lo Preciso by Rafael Ramírez

When: Thursday, November 2nd, and Friday, November 3rd, at 8:00 p.m.

Where: On.Stage Black Box at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium (2901 W Flager St, Miami, FL 33135)

Prices: Standard Admission – $30 / Discounts: Senior/Student – $25 / Accessible/ Group (≥10) – $20

+ Information : (305) 547-5414 | https://www.miamidadecountyauditorium.org/

What: Israel Fernández and Diego del Morao in Concert

When: Saturday, November 4th at 8:00 p.m.

Where: Miami Beach Bandshell (7275 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33141)

Price: $41.20

+ Information: (305) 547-5414 | https://miamibeachbandshell.com/

What: Domingos de Vermut y Potaje by Maui

When: Sunday, November 5th, at 2:00 p.m.

Where: On.Stage Black Box at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium (2901 W Flager St, Miami, FL 33135)

Prices: Standard Admission – $30 / Discounts: Senior/Student – $25 / Accessible/ Group (≥10) – $20

Tickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/domingos-de-vermut-y-potaje-by-miami-florida-11-05-2023/event/0D005F167558ABD9

+ Information : (305) 547-5414 | https://www.miamidadecountyauditorium.org/