Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, Yjastros: Stepchildren
2020-06-14 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
This event has been cancelled.
8 pm
The National Institute of Flamenco is offering Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 33 as an online experience. Please click the link for more information:
http://ffiabq.org
For more question please call the NHCC box office at (505) 724-4771.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque Presents Rocío Molina y Compañía: Caída del Cielo
2020-06-19 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque Presents Fiesta Flamenca: A Gala Performance
2020-06-20 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañía Flamenca Irene Lozano "Lachiqui de Málaga"
2021-07-13 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8 pm (MST)
More information and tickets available HERE.
The National Institute of Flamenco and Festival Flamenco Alburquerque present Compañía Flamenca Irene Lozano “Lachiqui de Málaga” – Las Mujeres Que Habitan en Mi.
From renowned flamenco dancer Irene Lozano “Lachiqui de Málaga” comes the new show “Las Mujeres Que Habitan en Mi,” a stunning tribute to all of the women and the possibilities that have influenced her life and art.

“The women who live within me, those whose lives I have not been able to live and those whose lives I have been able to live. Due to the circumstances of life and the profession to which I have dedicated myself since I was four years old, there are many moments as an adolescent girl and woman that I could not live, as well as experiences that made me become an adult very soon. There are many women who have made me who I am today and have influenced what my dance has become. All the women I wasn’t and the women I lived.” – Irene Lozano
Baile: Irene Lozano “Lachiqui de Málaga,” Sandra Baras, and Natalia Novela
Cante: Alejandro Navarro and “El Yiyi”
Guitarra: José Manuel Alconchel

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañia Flamenca Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles
2021-07-14 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8 pm (MST)
More information and tickets available HERE.
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañia Flamenca Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles – Mestizaje Puro
Acclaimed flamenco artists residing in Los Angeles, Compañia Flamenca Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles present Mestizaje Puro, a powerful new flamenco show. “Embracing our Cosmic Mestizaje and channeling and honoring the Ancestors. Flamen-Curando the colonial wound and claiming our birthright to and inheritance of the art that is Flamenco, the art that became our collective cry for freedom and our medicine, just as it was intended. Gitano, Indígena, Chicano, Mexicano, Cubano, French, Black – Flamencos. We come together in the puro and raw healing spirit of the art. Make no mistake, ancestral soul medicine is what we do.” – Compañia Flamenca Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Angeles

Baile, Dirección, Coreografía: Briseyda Zárate
Baile, Artista Invitado, Coreografía: Manuel Gutierrez
Baile: Vanessa Albalos
Cante: José Cortés
Guitarra: Andres Vadin
Cajón: Diego Álvarez “El Negro”

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Yjastros: The American Flamenco Company with invited guests
2021-07-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8 pm (MST)
More information and tickets available HERE.
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Yjastros: The American Flamenco Company with invited guests
Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company showcases choreographies from flamenco’s top creators. Join Yjastros for a special evening featuring invited guests
Vicente Griego y Revózo
Juan Siddi
Chuscales
Valeria Montes and Juani de la Isla

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Caminos Flamencos
2021-07-16 | NM
8 pm (MST)
More information and tickets available HERE.
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Caminos Flamencos – Nuestro Camino
“In a tribute to resilience and longevity in a post-pandemic world, Nuestro Camino celebrates Caminos Flamencos’ 28-year history as one of the most prolific and eclectic flamenco companies in the U.S. Honoring Festival Flamenco Alburquerque in its own journey, Nuestro Camino features the talents of its longtime company members. Emmy winning Artistic Director Yaelisa, a second-generation flamenca, brings a performance of rich improvisatory simplicity and gratitude for a life well-lived.

With the bountiful musical compositions of guitarist Jason McGuire “El Rubio,” accompanied by percussionist Marlon Aldana, three powerhouse dancers step into the waters of flamenco with their distinctive styles rooted in both the traditional and contemporary vein. With a special appearance by the extraordinary Gypsy singer from Málaga, Amparo Heredia “La Repompilla,” also a second generation flamenca, Nuestro Camino is a personal, intimate journey of love and solidarity between artists.”
– Yaelisa and Caminos Flamencos.
Baile y Dirección: Yaelisa
Guitarra: Jason McGuire “El Rubio”
Baile: Melissa Cruz, Fanny Ara
Cante: Amparo Heredia “La Repompilla”
Percusión: Marlon Aldana

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañía Flamenca Nino de los Reyes
2021-07-17 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8 pm (MST)
More information and tickets available HERE.
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 2021: Compañía Flamenca Nino de los Reyes –PerpetuARTE (lucha contra la extinción)
Grammy-award winning flamenco dancer Nino de los Reyes presents his latest work, PerpetuARTE, an exploration of artists’ will to survive and prevail against even the most difficult of circumstances.
Baile, Dirección: Nino de los Reyes
Baile: Triana Maciel Prats, Isaac de los Reyes
Guitarra: José Luis de La Paz

Festival Oralidad
2021-11-18 | NM
Reception—6 pm, Cayetana Romero Lobby
Introduction to Festival Oralidad—6:30 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium
Concert, Nacha Mendez Trio—7:30 pm, Bank of America Theatre
Reception and festival introduction free to the public; concert tickets $17 w/ $2 discount for NHCC members, purchase Here
Please note: Both the festival introduction and the concert will require either a proof of vaccination completed at least 14 days prior to the event or a negative COVID test administered by a health care professional within 72 hours of the event. Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are also required while inside the NHCC.
Instituto Cervantes and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, with the collaboration of AMP Concerts and the support of the New Mexico Humanities Council, present the first Festival Oralidad on November 18, 20, and 22, 2021. The festival combines workshops, lectures, panel discussions, storytelling performances, and musical performances connected to the oral tradition and storytelling. It was created with two essential purposes: the promotion of the oral tradition of storytelling and the establishment of a collaborative relationship among artists from New Mexico, other parts of the United States, Spain, and Latin America to create new works together and contribute to the advancement of the genre.

New Mexico, where Native American cultures, Latin American oral tradition, and cultural traditions such as flamenco converge, is an ideal place for a festival focused on the oral tradition, and Instituto Cervantes is positioned to encourage this union of cultures and promote an exchange between artists of diverse origins. Over three days, Festival Oralidad offers academic and theoretical debate, shares the secrets of storytellers with children, and brings together some of the most significant musicians and storytellers in the U.S. While travel restrictions this year have limited participation to artists residing in-country, future festivals will include colleagues from Latin America and Spain.
A reception with wine and Spanish ham will greet festival participants on the opening evening, followed by an introduction to the three-day event by Nasario García, a folklorist, writer and educator, and one of New Mexico’s foremost experts on oral tradition. He will give a talk on the state’s cultural and linguistic roots in the spoken word, and will discuss the importance of storytelling with Silvia Grijalba, director of the Instituto Cervantes of Albuquerque and El Paso. The evening will conclude with a concert by the Nacha Mendez Trio
Nasario García, professor emeritus of Spanish and Hispanic literatures, holds a B.A. in Spanish, an M.A. in Portuguese, and a Ph.D. in 19th century Spanish literature. He has published more than 30 books educating both adults and children about the richness of New Mexico’s Spanish language and culture, including Memorias de los viejos: Tales of the Rio Puerco; Abuelitos: Stories of the Rio Puerco Valley; Comadres: Hispanic Women of the Rio Puerco Valley; and Más antes: Hispanic Folklore of the Rio Puerco Valley. Dr. García has worked over the years to preserve the language and culture of northern New Mexico, particularly his beloved Rio Puerco Valley, where he grew up in the community of Ojo del Padre (Guadalupe).
Nacha Mendez combines storytelling, music, and song in a journey through her personal experience that speaks to her Latin blood, Native American history, and experience as an artist throughout Europe. Mendez grew up in the small border town of La Union in southern New Mexico, where she began singing and playing guitar at an early age. She learned traditional ranchera singing from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso.
She studied classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University before moving to New York, where she studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Conservatory of Music in Barcelona, Spain. In the early 1990s, she was a lead singer with Robert Ashley’s opera company, touring Europe and Japan, and has also collaborated with celebrated composer Steve Peters.
She has received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been honored by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women Artists, voted Best Female Vocalist in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2009 and 2010, and awarded Best Latin Production at the New Mexico Music Awards.
This concert will require either a proof of vaccination completed at least 14 days prior to the event or a negative COVID test administered by a health care professional within 72 hours of the event. Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are also required while inside the NHCC.

Nacha Mendez Trio
2021-11-18 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:30 pm
Nacha Mendez combines storytelling, music, and song in a journey through her personal experience that speaks to her Latin blood, Native American history, and experience as an artist throughout Europe. Mendez grew up in the small border town of La Union in southern New Mexico, where she began singing and playing guitar at an early age. She learned traditional ranchera singing from her grandmother and performed in border towns near El Paso.
$17 w/ $2 discount for NHCC members
COVID PROTOCOLS:

She studied classical voice and electronic music at New Mexico State University before moving to New York, where she studied flamenco guitar with Manuel Granados of the Conservatory of Music in Barcelona, Spain. In the early 1990s, she was a lead singer with Robert Ashley’s opera company, touring Europe and Japan, and has also collaborated with celebrated composer Steve Peters.
She has received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been honored by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women Artists, voted Best Female Vocalist in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2009 and 2010, and awarded Best Latin Production at the New Mexico Music Awards.
This concert is part of the first Festival Oralidad, presented by Instituto Cervantes and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, with the collaboration of AMP Concerts and the support of the New Mexico Humanities Council, on November 18, 20, and 22, 2021. The festival combines workshops, lectures, panel discussions, storytelling performances, and musical performances connected to the oral tradition and storytelling; most events are free to the public.
Approximate time of event: 1.5 hours. One set, no intermission.
This concert will require either a proof of vaccination completed at least 14 days prior to the event or a negative COVID test administered by a health care professional within 72 hours of the event. Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are also required while inside the NHCC.
With the support of:

Festival Oralidad
2021-11-20 | NM
Interactive Recital Workshop for Children, Michelle Adam—12 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium
Workshop, Emmy Tither—1:30 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium
Round Table Discussion, Nicolasa Chávez & Orlando Romero—4 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium
Concert, Shkeme and Native Roots—7 pm, Bank of America Theatre
All events free to the public; previous registration for the workshops required by e-mail at ext-priscila.lopez@cervantes.es
Instituto Cervantes and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, with the collaboration of AMP Concerts and the support of the New Mexico Humanities Council, present the first Festival Oralidad on November 18, 20, and 22, 2021. The festival combines workshops, lectures, panel discussions, storytelling performances, and musical performances connected to the oral tradition and storytelling. It was created with two essential purposes: the promotion of the oral tradition of storytelling and the establishment of a collaborative relationship among artists from New Mexico, other parts of the United States, Spain, and Latin America to create new works together and contribute to the advancement of the genre.

New Mexico, where Native American cultures, Latin American oral tradition, and cultural traditions such as flamenco converge, is an ideal place for a festival focused on the oral tradition, and Instituto Cervantes is positioned to encourage this union of cultures and promote an exchange between artists of diverse origins. Over three days, Festival Oralidad offers academic and theoretical debate, shares the secrets of storytellers with children, and brings together some of the most significant musicians and storytellers in the U.S. While travel restrictions this year have limited participation to artists residing in-country, future festivals will include colleagues from Latin America and Spain.
Author, storyteller and teacher Michelle Adam’s interactive recital is especially designed for children from six to twelve years old, to explore the power of stories and develop their creativity and taste for storytelling. Adam’s published works include the novel Niña Duende, set in Málaga, Spain, and the bilingual children’s story “Adventures with Duende in the Ocean,” about a goblin who leads a child to the ocean.
Emmy Tither, an educator and researcher raised in Lima, Peru and Washington, DC, is the K-12 Educational Program Coordinator for the University of New Mexico’s Latin American and Iberian Institute. She holds a BSc in Social Sciences with Anthropology from Birkbeck, University of London and an M.A. in Documentary Arts from the University of Cape Town, and has worked in the education, non-profit,and start-up sectors on four continents.
Nicolasa Chávez, a fourteenth-generation New Mexican, is the Deputy State Historian for the State of New Mexico and the former Curator of Latino/Hispanic/Spanish Colonial Collections at the Museum of International Folk Art. She has a master’s degree in history with a concentration in Iberian Studies from the University of New Mexico. As a dancer/artist, she has trained in flamenco with Lili del Castillo, Eva Encinias, and Pablo Rodarte of Albuquerque, and Vicente Romero and María Benítez of Santa Fe. A writer, curator, and historian, she conducts lecture/demonstrations combining flamenco song and dance with the history of the art form, as well as lectures and programs on the traditions of New Mexico, Spain, and the Americas.
Orlando Romero, a writer and historian, received the Order of Isabella the Catholic in 2014 for “his dedication in preserving the heritage, language, history, cultural traditions and Spanish customs of Hispanic New Mexico.” Born in Santa Fe, he has written a monthly column for The New Mexican since 1998, and is the author of Nambe Year One, a nonfiction book exploring the history of northern New Mexico.
COVID PROTOCAL:
This concert will require either a proof of vaccination completed at least 14 days prior to the event or a negative COVID test administered by a health care professional within 72 hours of the event. Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are also required while inside the NHCC.

Festival Oralidad
2021-11-22 | NM
Workshop, Matilde Machiavello—1 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium
Presentation, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez—4 pm, Wells Fargo Auditorium
Concert, Perla Batalla—6:30 pm, Bank of America Theatre
Workshop and presentation free to the public; concert tickets $17, $27, $37 w/ $2 discount for NHCC members, purchase Here
Instituto Cervantes and the National Hispanic Cultural Center, with the collaboration of AMP Concerts and the support of the New Mexico Humanities Council, present the first Festival Oralidad on November 18, 20, and 22, 2021. The festival combines workshops, lectures, panel discussions, storytelling performances, and musical performances connected to the oral tradition and storytelling. It was created with two essential purposes: the promotion of the oral tradition of storytelling and the establishment of a collaborative relationship among artists from New Mexico, other parts of the United States, Spain, and Latin America to create new works together and contribute to the advancement of the genre.

New Mexico, where Native American cultures, Latin American oral tradition, and cultural traditions such as flamenco converge, is an ideal place for a festival focused on the oral tradition, and Instituto Cervantes is positioned to encourage this union of cultures and promote an exchange between artists of diverse origins. Over three days, Festival Oralidad offers academic and theoretical debate, shares the secrets of storytellers with children, and brings together some of the most significant musicians and storytellers in the U.S. While travel restrictions this year have limited participation to artists residing in-country, future festivals will include colleagues from Latin America and Spain.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, educator Matilde Machiavello was trained in English language instruction and neurolinguistic programming in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is also a team coach, Brain Gym 101 facilitator, and storyteller, with more than 20 years of experience working with individuals and teams to enhance talent and creativity. As a storyteller, she believes in the “magical power of stories” in shaping a new and ideal reality, and enjoys sharing stories in both Spanish and English and combining the different strategies in which she has been trained.
Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez is a Chicano storyteller, academic, and former associate professor at the University of New Mexico. He has taught classes on Mexican American border culture, Chicano culture, and creative writing, in colleges in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. His books include Algún día te cuento las cosas, Luego el silencio, En el Lost ‘n’ Found, and his most recent work, Nocturno de Frontera; his stories have been published in anthologies and literary magazines in Spain, Italy, Mexico, and the United States.
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Perla Batalla earns critical acclaim for her distinctive voice, emotional honesty, and culture-merging compositions. She was born in Los Angeles to a family immersed in music. Her dad, a Mexican mariachi and D.J., and her Argentine mom ran the family record shop, Discoteca Batalla, where Perla was exposed to an education of non-stop music that cut across genres and languages.
After singing with and recording with numerous groups and artists, including Leonard Cohen, Perla launched her solo career with Cohen’s encouragement. Since then, she has recorded seven albums, been featured in film and on television, staged two one-woman shows, and performed in some of the world’s most prestigious venues.
Her original Frida Kahlo musical was chosen by the Ojai Playwrights Festival and subsequently produced at the San Diego Repertory Theater to critical praise. Perla’s personal homage to her mentor, Cohen, continues to play to sold-out audiences throughout Europe and North America.
Perla’s mission of exposing youth to the beauty of music and the Spanish language is ongoing in her outreach to some of the poorest communities in the U.S. She has been honored with two U.N. awards: the Earth Charter Award for extraordinary devotion to social and economic justice and he Environmental Peacebuilding Award, for advancing social justice through music. She is also the recipient of New Mexico’s Premio Fronterizo Award for healing work in the world.
This concert will require either a proof of vaccination completed at least 14 days prior to the event or a negative COVID test administered by a health care professional within 72 hours of the event. Originals or photos of documents with a matching ID will be accepted. Masks are also required while inside the NHCC.

AfroMundo Festival: Screening & Panel Discussion
2022-04-21 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:00 pm
This Spanish/w English subtitles documentary explores Spain’s slave owning & slave trafficking past that links its ports to one in Vera Cruz. It also depicts the influence of that shared slave past on Spanish and Mexican culture, particularly on Flamenco and Son Jarocho. Panelists Carolina “Caro” Acuña-Olvera, Rosalinda Rojas, and Yvonne B. Hamilton Gutierrez are members of the Black Flamenco Network, also known as FUAAD—Flamencos Unidos Africanos y Afro Descendientes.
Free community event
AfroMundo Festival
Shared Roots: A Celebration of Afro-Latinx Culture
AfroMundo was born of a desire to counter alienation and marginalization by fostering civic engagement. It was therefore founded on the principles of convite—an age-old collaborative tradition that enables community members to pool their talents and scarce resources for rituals of life, socialization and mutual support, whether to collectively harvest each other’s fields, erect homes, tend to the sick, bury the dead, celebrate Feast Days or organize festivals, thus strengthening communal bonds and ensuring that no one toils, grieves or celebrates alone.
In the spirit of convite which takes into account that communities are wellsprings of wisdom, talents and skills, AfroMundo is a diverse, multigenerational collective of tradition bearers, storytellers, community historians, artists, cultural specialists and humanities scholars with the shared goal of nurturing community through meaningful traditional as well as contemporary cultural, artistic, and humanities programs designed to nourish the soul, address inequities, spark informed dialogues, and establish alliances to combat racism and bias.
This event is free and open to the public.
In-person attendees are encouraged to REGISTER in advance.
Capacity for each event is LIMITED and varies according to venue.
For other festival activities please go to AfroMundo.org or AfroMundo Organization on Facebook.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 35 presents Estévez / Paños y Compañía: La Confluencia
2022-06-11 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 35 presents Estévez / Paños y Compañía, winners of the Spanish National Dance Prize for Choreography in 2019, in La Confluencia. Their new exploration into flamenco’s multifaceted evolution features fiveprodigiously talented, inimitable male dancers of danza estilizada and flamenco. Original and riveting, La Confluenciapowerfully imagines the forces that coalesce to make flamenco the evocative art that it is. (U.S. Premiere)
$50, $65, $80, $95

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 35 presents Eva Yerbabuena: D’Madrugá
2022-06-16 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 35 presents Eva Yerbabuena y Compañía in D’Madrugá. Flamenco’s grande dame returns to the Festival with a work of pure inspiration transmitted with unmatched beauty, depth, and energy. Miraculous and groundbreaking, Eva Yerbabuena illuminates what it is to be one of the world’s great dancers. (U.S. Premiere)
$50, $65, $80, $95

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 35 presents Fiesta Flamenca
2022-06-17 - 2022-06-18 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 35 presents Fiesta Flamenca, a star-studded gala evening of music and dance, illustrating the range and dynamic styles presented in Festival Flamenco. Elegance, sophistication, and physical brilliance challenge the audience to experience flamenco in all its forms. This vibrant display of artistry exemplifies flamenco’s depth and distinct characteristics. In spectacular performances of powerful flamenco, headlining artists of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, along with Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, share the stage for an evening of unforgettable music and dance. Each evening of Fiesta Flamenca showcases a unique cast!
Friday’s cast features Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, Mercedes de Córdoba, Paloma Fantova, Concha Jareño, and Alfonso Losa.
Saturday’s cast features Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, Rafael Estévez, Valeriano Paños, Pastora Galván, José Maya, and Eva Yerbabuena.
$60, $75, $90, $105

Juan Carmona
2022-11-18 | NHCC-Newsletter-November-2-30
7:30 pm
AMP Concerts presents French guitar virtuoso Juan Carmona, the perfect symbol of flamenco’s rebirth. While proud of his Andalusian Gypsy roots, Carmona insists on moving beyond the typical ethnic clichés. Respected in all musical fields, including classical music, he has built bridges between flamenco and other musical genres. His performances have a surprising, moving quality. Somewhere between profound awareness of musical genres, mastery of traditional styles, and a devastating modernity, Carmona stands as an innovator.
$32

Instituto Cervantes, AMP Concerts, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center present the second edition of the Oralidad Festival. Oralidad is born with two essential purposes: to promote the oral tradition of storytelling and to establish a collaboration between artists from New Mexico, Spain, Latin America, and the rest of the United States to create new works together and contribute to the improvement of storytelling.

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Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36: Daniel Doña Compañía de Danza: Entre Hilos Y Huesos
2023-06-09 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:30 pm
Sponsored by the Covington Family Fund
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Daniel Doña, winner of the 2019 Max Prize for best male dancer, and his awe-inspiring company of dancers and musicians to Festival Flamenco Alburquerque for the first time in the U.S. premiere of Entre Hilos y Huesos.
“What political passion or war tears apart, art can sew back together with its winged hands, with its subtle and invisible needle and thread.” – Gregorio Marañón
Entre Hilos y Huesos is the latest choreographic imagining of the company DDC Danza, directed by dancer and choreographer Daniel Doña. This work moves and shakes, it is poetic justice expressed from an avant-garde dance. It dares to move through tradition and contemporaneity, taking refuge in flamenco and the songs of yesteryear while overflowing and exploding in the current moment.
$50, $65, $80, $95
Run time: 120 min
A NOTE ON CONTENT: THIS PERFORMANCE CONTAINS A SCENE OF NUDITY, VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36: Patricia Guerrero y Compañía: Deliranza
2023-06-15 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Sponsored by TourSpain
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Patricia Guerrero y Compañía in Deliranza. Winner of the 2021 Spanish National Dance Prize, the prodigious young dancer and her company immerse audiences into a performance of a thousand dreamlike adventures.
In Deliranza, Guerrero sets a work in a time conducive to creation and reverie: rehearsal time, where the creator, exhausted by the hours of work, rests and, like Alice, falls into a dream that makes her cross the limits of the everyday world. She breaks with logic enters into new, transformative worlds. As she descends into dreams, she encounters characters and obstacles, but above all the sounds of flamenco, the Soleá, the voice of a Granaína/Bulería or a Mariana… inviting the viewer to imagine and explore the sometimes lonely but gorgeous and dreamlike process of creation.
$50, $65, $80, $95
Run time: 90 min

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents: Fiesta Flamenca
2023-06-16 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Fiesta Flamenca. Fiesta Flamenca on Friday, June 16th has a star-studded gala evening of music and dance, illustrating the range and dynamic styles presented in Festival Flamenco. Elegance, sophistication, and physical brilliance challenge the audience to experience flamenco in all its forms. This vibrant display of artistry exemplifies flamenco’s depth and distinct characteristics.
In spectacular performances of powerful flamenco, headlining artists of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, along with Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, share the stage for an evening of unforgettable music and dance. Each evening of Fiesta Flamenca showcases a unique cast!
Friday’s cast features Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, Daniel Doña, Marco Flores, Olga Pericet, and Nazaret Reyes.
$60, $75, $90, $105
Run time: 120 min

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents: Fiesta Flamenca
2023-06-17 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 36 presents Fiesta Flamenca. Fiesta Flamenca on Saturday, June 17th has a star-studded gala evening of music and dance, illustrating the range and dynamic styles presented in Festival Flamenco. Elegance, sophistication, and physical brilliance challenge the audience to experience flamenco in all its forms. This vibrant display of artistry exemplifies flamenco’s depth and distinct characteristics.
In spectacular performances of powerful flamenco, headlining artists of Festival Flamenco Alburquerque, along with Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, share the stage for an evening of unforgettable music and dance. Each evening of Fiesta Flamenca showcases a unique cast!
Saturday’s cast features Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company, Raquel Heredia “La Repompilla,” Andrés Marín, Patricia Guerrero, and Israel Galván.
$60, $75, $90, $105
Run time: 120 min
*Please note: Sergio Aranda will be performing in the Saturday cast. This is a change from our previously scheduled cast as Israel Galván is not able to perform Saturday.

The Albuquerque Folk Festival
2023-10-06 - 2023-10-07 | NHCC Campus, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Friday
10:00 am – 9:00 pm Saturday
Enjoy 2 fun days at the festival this year! Kids under 12 & seniors 85+ FREE at the gate.
Friday Night: Three performances (Flamenco, Lone Piñon, & Baracutanga) in the Journal Center Theatre; alcohol, soft drinks & snacks available for purchase; arts & craft vendors. Gates open 5pm, performances 6pm to 9pm. La Fonda Restaurant open till 8pm.
Saturday Full Day & Night: 100+ events indoors and outdoors with 5 stages, 5 music and dance workshop venues, 2-3 Jam venues, a storytelling tent, a musical instrument petting zoo, arts and crafts vendors, food trucks, kids’ tent, merch and consignment booths, a free instrument check & bike valet. Gates open at 10am; close at 9pm.
For the ABQ Folk Festival schedule, please click Here
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Purchase Tickets for Friday only, Saturday only or a 2-day Package Ticket. If you need help with tickets, please, call the NHCC Box Office at 505-724-4771.

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Pre-Performance Talk: Yjastros: Xicano Power
2023-11-10 - 2023-11-11 | Visual Art Museum, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
7:15 pm Friday, 3:15 pm Saturday
A special pre-show conversation before the Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company: Xicano Power performance will take place in the NHCC Visual Arts Museum.
National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present the Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company in Xicano Power. Xicano Power is the seasonal culmination of Yjastros’ progression and evolution. This performance made its world premiere at the 2023 Festival de Jerez, marking the first time a company from the United States was ever invited to perform in the prestigious international festival. The current concert season marks the performance’s first appearance at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
This is a free event.
Tickets to the Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company: Xicano Power performance sold separately.

Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company: Xicano Power
2023-11-10 - 2023-11-11 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm Friday, 4:00 pm Saturday
National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present the Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company in Xicano Power. Xicano Power is the seasonal culmination of Yjastros’ progression and evolution. This performance made its world premiere at the 2023 Festival de Jerez, marking the first time a company from the United States was ever invited to perform in the prestigious international festival. The current concert season marks the performance’s first appearance at the National Hispanic Cultural Center.
$48, $58, $68, $78 & $88 w/ a $5 discount for Seniors, Students w/ Id, Children 12 yeas old and younger and NHCC Members

This powerful display of flamenco is framed around the poet Rudolfo “Corky” González’s seminal poem “Yo Soy Joaquín.” González wrote the poem in 1967 to express the struggle of a people and the need for a Chicano movement. Here, the poem appears to express shared identities and deepen the company’s and audiences’ interpretation of these repertory pieces. In 2004, just five years after Yjastros: The American Flamenco Repertory Company’s inception, Israel Galván choreographed Xicano Power on the company.
In titling the work, Galván chose a name representative of the people performing. By doing so, Galván acknowledged the importance of the people doing the art. We have chosen Xicano Power for the title of this performance, focusing again on the interpreters and the power that shapes who they are. Chicano identity and culture permeate the land and space that this company comes from. The choreographies presented in Xicano Power showcase flamenco’s incredible expressive range: explosive, elegant, raw, delightful, complex, beautiful; each piece as unique as its creator.
For more information about our friends at the National Institute of Flamenco, please, click Here.
Xicano Power – Yjastros group (Photo credit: Rafael Manjavacas)

21st Annual Breakin Hearts: All Ages Hip-Hop Event
2024-02-17 | NHCC | Education Building: Grand Hall, 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102, United States
12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Breakin Hearts serves as a community event that encompasses all elements of Latinx, indigenous, and all communities that represent hip hop culture for the past 20 years in the Southwest. Breakin Hearts serves as a platform for local and national artists. The purpose of the event is to create a safe space for under-represented artists AND established professionals to showcase their talents, compete, and celebrate hip hop culture under one roof. Hip hop is all about peace, love, unity and having fun, which really shines through at Breakin Hearts.
The United Hip Hop Family (UHF Crew) & Movement is Medicine is excited to keep tradition alive at the NHCC Grand Ballroom. The event, taking place on Valentines weekend, is a family friendly one day festival featuring dozens of live hip hop performers, MC’s, DJ’s, a beatbox competition, a breaking tournament, flamenco performance, Soul/Reggae/Funk bands, vendor market, open-to-the public canvas art competition, a hip hop fashion contest, spoken word poetry performances, food trucks, lots of dancing, music and more.
Come join us this year as we celebrate with Breakin Hearts basic principles of Education, Competition and Reflection. See you there!
$27, with a $2 discount for NHCC members

Cervantes Film Series: Relatos de la Resistencia: La Chana
2024-04-05 | Virtual
12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here
Relatos de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo
La Chana reveals the story of a mythical dancer who rose to stardom and then plunged into anonymity. The profound gaze of director Lucija Stojevic – who has recently returned to portraiture with her documentary Pepi Fandango (2023) – follows her protagonist to understand how the artistic vocation of a woman like her could survive and be recreated throughout her life.
Synopsis: A self-taught dancer, Antonia Santiago Amador, known as la Chana, lives a quiet life in Catalonia. Between 1960 and 1980, she was one of the biggest stars of the flamenco world, astonishing with her innovative, fast-paced style and inventive use of rhythm. Peter Sellers, with whom she appeared in The Bobo (1967), invited her to Hollywood. And suddenly, at the peak of her career, she disappeared from the scene. Decades of dancing have worn out her body. Sensual, vulnerable, yet seemingly invincible, she transports us to the essence of her passion as she returns to the stage after a twenty-five-year hiatus.
Director/s: Lucija Stojevic | Year: 2017 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 82 min | Genre: Documental | Country: España | Original version: español | Subtitles: inglés, francés | portugués (de Brasil), italiano, español | Rated: SC

Relators de la Resistencia: Buscando un lugar en el mundo, the strength of documentary filmmaking in Spain is a phenomenon with three decades of history. The work of the monographic festivals has been crucial to maintain its strength and validity among the public interested in the new expressive forms of cinema, but also among those who seek in the documentary to know the perspective and experiences of others, often very distant spatially, temporally, and culturally.
In collaboration with the DocsBarcelona festival, this online film series that stars the month of April on our Vimeo channel brings together four documentaries that allow us to meet people whose lives are marked by adventure, and not always in its most positive interpretation. In addition, the direction of these works tells us about the place from where we elaborate the stories of loss, but also those of survival and overcoming.
PROGRAM
April 4: La Chana (2017), by Lucija Stojevic
April 11: Los Bilbao (2022), by Pedro Speroni
April 18: Light Falls Vertical (2022), by Efthymia Zymvragaki
April 25: Querida Sara (2021), by Patricia Franquesa

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 37: Eduardo Guerrero: Bailar no es Solo Bailar
2024-06-24 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present Eduardo Guerrero y Compañía in the U.S. premiere of Bailar no es Solo Bailar.
The incredible Cádiz-born Eduardo Guerrero brings Bailar no es Solo Bailar to the stage, a work full of profound expression. Guerrero aims to dive into the basics in a humble, simple way, without distracting artifacts and observe what happens when we let the minimal invade us, that innocent dance of the beginning returns to our body – what happens when we eliminate all the subterfuge to see how the body beats and honestly gives into itself to blur and melt. He returns to Flamenco as catharsis, as a language to unburden the heart and let the soul free. To return to Flamenco as a collective communion and sacred meeting, as a vehicle that brought us to the here and now and from which we will return to the before.
$55, $70, $85, $100 & $115
* This price includes a $4/ticket NHCC fee

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 37: Mercedes de Córdoba y Compañía: Sí, Quiero
2024-06-25 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present Mercedes de Córdoba y Compañía in Sí, Quiero
Considered one of the most powerful and authentic dancers of her generation, Mercedes de Córdoba brings her celebratory personal work to the U.S. for the first time. Sí, Quiero is a categorical answer that admits no doubt. An anachronistic oath, and a forceful and necessary cry that vindicates commitment as a revolutionary act. This beautiful work reaffirms the act of wanting through an artistic discovery of what one is and what one feels. It presents a ceremony that celebrates life, a victory, a toast.
$55, $70, $85, $100 & $115
* This price includes a $4/ticket NHCC fee

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 37: Manuel Liñán y Compañía: Muerta de Amor
2024-06-26 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present Manuel Liñán y Compañía in Muerta de Amor.
Spanish National Dance prize winner Manuel Liñán brings his brand new work to the U.S. for the first time. Muerta de Amor creates a space where desires nourished by past longings coexist and feelings can be reclaimed. In this new creation, Manuel Liñán seeks sustenance through emotion and flesh, a journey inviting him to discover humanity’s need for connection, the closeness between bodies, what drives them, and their consequences. Featuring 12 amazing artists on stage, the performance guides us through a choreographic passage, with the essence of copla, aiming at different atmospheres: desire, fantasy, provocation… needs arising from our own intimacy, from our bodies, sustaining our vital energy.
“The emphasis on invoking these emotional fields, provoked by relationships, keeps alive a constant desire, reflected in my dance. P.S. Fall in love, friend, you’ll dance better.” – Manuel Liñán
This performance contains some mature themes. Viewer discretion advised.
$55, $70, $85, $100 & $115
* This price includes a $4/ticket NHCC fee

Festival Flamenco Alburquerque 37: Farruquito y Compañía: Concierto Flamenco
2024-06-27 | Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Albuquerque Journal Theatre, 1701 4th St SW, Albuquerque, NM, 87102
8:00 pm
National Institute of Flamenco & the NHCC present Farruquito y Compañía in Concierto Flamenco.
Synopsis coming soon!
$55, $70, $85, $100 & $115
* This price includes a $4/ticket NHCC fee
