Miguel Poveda in Concert: April 7 & 8, 2022

Cast, Creative & Production Team

Miguel Poveda, Main artist / vocals

Joan Albert Amargos, Piano

Jesús Guerrero, Guitar

Paquito González, Percussion

Miguel Angel Soto “Londro,” Chorus / palms

Carlos Grilo, Palms

Antonio Molina “El Choro,” Dancer

Marc Rigau, Sound tech

Ale Paura, Tour Manager

Paz Bella, Manager assist.

This special event is co-presented with NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center to celebrate their 25 years of creative programming that foregrounds the history, politics, and cultures of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world, and is co-produced with Flamenco Festival New York.

Logos: NYU KJCC 1997-2022. Flamenco Festival New York.

SHOW INFO

Tonight’s program includes songs from Miguel Poveda’s new album Diverso, Federico García Lorca poems, and classical flamenco.

A NOTE FROM FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK

Welcome!

“The New York Flamenco Festival is one of the year’s biggest dance events in New York City” – The New York Times

Welcome to Flamenco Festival 2022! Once again, Flamenco Festival will present the most brilliant artists in the field, not only those who keep the tradition alive, but also the men and women who are seeking new ways to expand and enliven the art form and are opening expressing themselves in their music and dance in new and unpredictable ways. Born into a traditional art form, they chose different directions as they developed their own distinctive styles. For all of them, these were acts of courage in such a long revered field. Everything changes but in flamenco change is especially hard won.

This year’s Festival invites audiences to look with fresh eyes upon artists who have taken up the challenge to invigorate tradition and move beyond it. They may use elements of flamenco but their dances and music are purely their own, born of their particular experiences and views of life. Flamenco can thrill, soothe, charm, intrigue, seduce and fulfill us; it can to grab us up in the moment, so that we completely forget ourselves. These artists offer this experience to all with open hearts and minds.

The Festival was established to introduce flamenco to a whole new audience so that people everywhere would be nourished by its expression of the human condition, just as its aficionados have been nurtured by its riches over the centuries. They have spread the word far and wide, presenting performers who are always searching for new ways to show us what it is to be human. Enjoy, feel and experience the “duende” of flamenco.

Miguel Marín, Artistic Director, Flamenco Festival New York

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Miguel Poveda tries to join his own sound with the diversity using the roots of traditional flamenco. In this journey through the universe of Poveda, we find out his love for flamenco, poetry, Andalusian folk music and his latest songs. His charisma, social commitment and passion on the stage do their concerts a unique experience of love, art and emotion.

Flamenco music cannot be understood without Miguel Poveda. His amazing voice and the way he performs his songs, join together the old with the new wave of flamenco. Throughout these 30 years, Miguel Poveda has known how to grow with elegance and his songs with him.

With more than 14 albums and many awards as “National Music Prize” (2007) “Culture Music Prize in Catalonia” (2011), “Medal of Andalusian” or “chair of flamencology prize” has build a career with love, risk, constancy always under the inspiration of the best ones in music.

ABOUT FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK

“Flamenco Festival is one of the biggest dance events of the year in New York City” (New York Times). With this sharpness the New York Times refers to Flamenco Festival, which is among the main Spanish cultural events organized outside of Spain, and the most important platform for Flamenco in the international market. After 20 years of activity, and an audience of more than 1,6 million people, Flamenco Festival has presented more than 140 companies and 1250 shows around the world, showcasing the leading names of today, from world renowned artists and icons of traditional flamenco, to the most innovative, emerging young stars of dance and music in this genre. Directed and founded by Miguel Marin, each year conquers new theaters and audiences around the world.

Flamenco Festival Team:

Artistic Director and Producer, Miguel Marín
Project Manager, Beatriz Hoyos
Administration, Beatriz Alcalá
Logistics, Susana Casado

ABOUT THE KING JUAN CARLOS CENTER

In celebration of our 25th anniversary, NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) has joined forces with NYU Skirball and the Flamenco Festival New York to present a special performance of superstar flamenco singer Miguel Poveda on Thursday, April 7 and Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m.

This special event will celebrate KJCC  25 years of creative programming that foregrounds the history, politics, languages, art, and cultures of Spain and the Spanish-speaking world. Under the leadership of former New York University President John Brademas, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) was inaugurated on April 9, 1997, in the presence of distinguished figures from Spain, Latin America, and the U.S., including the King and Queen of Spain and then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
KJCC Production Team:

Jordana Mendelson, Director
Laura Turégano, Associate Director
Luis Pérez, Logistics Coordinator
Pierina Pighi Bel, Communications Coordinator

ABOUT NYU SKIRBALL

We are NYU’s Home for Cutting-edge Performance, Artistic Research, and Discourse.

NYU Skirball holds close James Baldwin’s dictum that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” Our mission is to present adventuresome, transdisciplinary work that entertains yet upends, inspires yet frustrates, and confirms yet confounds. We proudly embrace artists who defamiliarize the familiar, productions that blur aesthetic boundaries, and thought-leaders who are courageous, outrageous, and mind-blowing. We are NYU’s largest classroom. We want to feed your head.

Jay Wegman
Director

Amy Coombs
Operations Director 

Stephanie Armitage
Administrative Coordinator

J M de Leon, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Engagement

Clifford Billings
Ticket Operation Specialist 

Lou DiLeo
Lighting Supervisor

Brian Emens
Theater Technician

George Faya
Theater Technician

Angie Golightly
Theater Technician

Vincent Iaropoli
Assistant Director, Finance

Jenny Liao
Front of House Manager

Ronni Mandell
Director of Marketing, NYU Campus Services

Andres Mendez
NYU Box Office Manager 

Melissa Negro
Senior Marketing Manager

Kimberly Olstad
Director of Development

Don Short
Audio/Rigging Supervisor 

Zachary Spitzer
Production Manager

Ian Tabatchnick
Operations Manager

Helene Davis Public Relations
Press Representative 

SUPPORT

NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by Howard Gilman Foundation, Collins Building Services, Consolidated Edison, Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and Marta Heflin Foundation, as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning fund, and Stage Pass Fund support.

NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by Howard Gilman Foundation, Collins Building Services, Consolidated Edison, Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore FoundationFlamenco Festival New York is made possible with the support of

Logos: Gobierno de Espana. Ministerio de cultura y deporte inaem; NYU KJCC King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center; Instituto Cervantes New York at Amster Yard; flamenco Congreso mundial del Instituto Cervantes; AC/E Accion Cultural Espanola; Junta de Andalucia Consejeria de Cultura y Patrimonio Historico Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales