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Tango Fire

featuring Estampas Porteñas direct from Buenos Aires

Saturday, January 19 at 8:00 PM
Price $36, $46, $62

Estampas Porteñas, the hottest Tango company in Buenos Aires, presents Tango Fire featuring Carolina Soler, company founder, dancing to the music of one of the greatest composers of the twentieth century, Astor Piazzolla. The thrilling and exciting production features a quartet of brilliant young musicians, passionate dancers, and a vocalist all performing with high energy and sensual sophistication. Estampas Porteñas offers a journey from the red light district of Buenos Aires, to the glamour of the Roaring Twenties, into the world of contemporary ballroom dance. Tango - Argentina's gift to the world - is one of the most alluring and exciting dance forms, evoking sensuality and intrigue, lust, raw energy, and knife-edge precision.

www.tango-fire.com

Perú Negro

Afro-Peruvian Music & Dance

Saturday, February 16 at 8:00 PM
Price $32, $42, $56

A wooden crate, a tithing box, and a donkey jaw are not your typical musical instruments. Because of a ban on drums placed on slaves by Spanish colonizers, these are the instruments played by Perú Negro in this incredible performance on the Rialto stage. Formed over 35 years ago to preserve Peru's African heritage, Perú Negro has performed all over the world and been appointed "Cultural Ambassadors of Peruvian Culture" by the Peruvian Government. Perú Negro's high-energy show is made up of festive and celebratory dances interwoven with vibrant live music, recreating the folkloric history of their ancestors. Perú Negro's second US-released album Jolgorio received both a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional World Music Album, as well as a Latin Grammy nomination.

www.perunegro.org

Noche Flamenca

with Soledad Barrio

Saturday, March 15 at 8:00 PM
Price $36, $46, $62

Born of passion and desire, Noche Flamenca was founded in Madrid in 1993 by artistic director Martín Santangelo and his wife Soledad Barrio. Through years of persistence, hard work and love, Noche Flamenca has developed into one of Spain's most successful flamenco companies. Since its beginning, Noche Flamenca's goal has been to maintain the essence, purity and integrity of one of the world's most complex and mysterious art forms without the use of tricks or gimmicks. The company relies on the high standards of its artists as well as their profound understanding of flamenco. All aspects of flamenco—dance, song and music—are interrelated and given equal weight in Noche Flamenca, creating a true communal spirit within the company, which is the very heart and soul of flamenco.

http://www.nocheflamenca.com/

Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective

Afro-Caribbean Soul

Saturday, April 19 at 8:00 PM
Price $32, $42, $56

The tale of Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective traces its roots to the early 1980s, when a teenage Palacio traveled from his home in the Central American country of Belize to Nicaragua to serve in a literacy campaign. Palacio is Garifuna, a unique culture based on the Caribbean coast of Central America that blends elements of West African and Native Caribbean heritage. Andy was told that Nicaragua’s local Garifuna traditions and language were all but extinct. He was en route via boat to the Nicaraguan village of Orinoco to begin his first literacy assignment, when a storm forced a change of direction, leading to a surprise encounter that had a lasting impact on Palacio’s music, career, and life mission. The legacy of this life-changing meeting lives on in the music of Wátina, a stunning new album featuring an all-star, multigenerational lineup of Garifuna musicians from Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Palacio is joined by 75-year-old Garifuna legend Paul Nabor.

www.cumbancha.com

Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Big Band

Afro-Latin Jazz

Saturday, May 17 at 8:00 PM
Price $36, $46, $62

Pianist Arturo O'Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, now known as the Afro-Cuban Big Band, brings together 18 prominent soloists from the Latin Jazz scene. In 1995, O’Farrill, who has performed with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, The Fort Apache Band, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte, agreed to lead the band founded by his legendary father—Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. Then, in 2002, along with Marsalis, he created the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra at Lincoln Center. Their debut album Una Noche Inolvidable earned a GRAMMY Award nomination in 2006, and O’Farrill himself won the 2003 Latin Jazz USA “Outstanding Achievement Award.”