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The third Friday of every month the stage at Don Quixote's vibrates with emotion with complex footwork rhythms, intricate hand-clapping, mesmerizing flamenco guitar and the haunting wail of Gypsy song. You are immediately transported to a tablao (flamenco night club) in Sevilla. Local performer, dancer & artistic director of "¡Duende!" Flamenco, La Romera, is an internationally recognized flamenco dancer and 2003 Calabash Award recipient for excellence in the Ethnic Arts. She is considered by the flamenco masters of Spain to be one of the most authentic interpreters of this art form performing in the US. Each month she invites leading guest artists from Spain and the Bay Area to share the stage and create an evening of flamenco magic. Each artist brings to the stage their mastery of the art form and the skill to improvise like a seasoned jazz musician. Flamenco, considered to be the soul music of Spain encompasses a full spectrum of human emotions. Experience moments joy and also be moved to tears when you watch this performance.
"Sensational!" ...Seattle Times shows.html
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Juan Del Valle began his flamenco training at the Conservatoire National in Paris. In 2000, he received a grant to travel to Sevilla where he studied with the family of the legendary El Farruco. He has also studied with masters Jose Galvan, Domingo Ortega, Antonio El Pipa and Manolo Marín.
In March of 2004, Juan was selected to dance in the premier performance of Israel Galvan's Torero al Lucinogen at the Teatro Central in Sevilla, Spain. Concurrently, he performed a five-month run as a soloist at La Carboneria in Sevilla with shows televised in New York and Europe. Juan was hosted by the University of Zulia, Venezuela, and the National Ministry of Culture to participate in the international dance congress, Cuerpo Creativo. As a guest of the Chinese Government, he performed in the internationally televised Culture Festival of Beijing. Juan recently finished ten weeks of summer performances as a soloist with the company of Maria Benitez, Teatro Flamenco. Juan was invited by Ms. Benitez to join the faculty of the Institute for Spanish Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he taught for five months.
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Pilar Moreno is originally from Spain and has lived in San Diego for many years. She is a highly esteemed singer who has performed for numerous leading flamenco groups throughout California. She is an extraordinary singer with a stirring, beautiful and very flamenco voice full of soul, aire y compás.
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David Gutiérrez has studied Flamenco guitar in both the United States and Spain since 1973. His teachers have included masters of the traditional style (Mario Escudero, Pedro Bacán and the nephews of Diego del Gastor) as well as some of the leading players of modern style Flamenco (manolo Sanlucar, Carlos Heredia and Jose Valle "Chuscales").
He began performing professionally with Los Flamencos de la Bodega at the original North Beach Old Spaghetti Factory, went on to perform with numerous Bay Area Spanish dance companies (including El Cuadro Flamenco, Teatro flamenco, Rosa Montoya's Bailes Flamencos and Arte y Compás) and co-founded the group ¡Flamenco Vivo!
He has appeared in concert frequently at Bay Area venues such as the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, Berkeley's La Peña Cultural Center, the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, and San Jose's Montgomery Theater.
In addition to performing and teach guitar, he travels to Spain periodically of extended visits to study and pursue his lifelong afición for the art of Flamenco.
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Juan Del Valle
Pilar Moreno
David Gutiérrez