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Flamenco and Spanish dance company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana will perform 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, at the Williams Center for Arts. This is the final performance in the 2009-10 Footlights series.
Artistic director Carlota Santana will give a pre-performance talk at 7 p.m. in the Williams Center room 108.
Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $6 for students at LVAIC schools, $4 for faculty and staff, and $22 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009.
Through its universal themes, purity of form, rhythm, and intensity, flamenco strikes primal chords in audiences of all ages, all cultures, and all degrees of exposure to the arts. Few choreographers have garnered greater acclaim from American fans of flamenco than Carlota Santana. Building her touring ensembles with some of the finest dancers and musicians from Spain, Santana shapes compelling evenings of dance, brimming with drama, soulfulness, and emotion.
The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, “This was a show of graceful, sensuous dance, expressing a host of raw human emotions–evocative of loneliness, pride, passion, and joy.”
WDIY 88.1 FM, Lehigh Valley Community Public Radio, is the media partner for this concert.
The 2009-10 Performance Series at Lafayette College is supported in part by gifts from Friends of the Williams Center for the Arts; by provisions of the Josephine Chidsey Williams Endowment, the J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Fund, the Croasdale Fund, the Class of ’73 Fund, the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Program, the James Bradley Fund, and the Ed Brunswick Jazz Fund; and by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Dexter and Dorothy Baker Foundation, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Special thanks to the F.M. Kirby Foundation for its extraordinary support.