DUE TO THE WEATHER AND FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS WE ARE CHANGING THE DATE OF THE SHOW TO SUNDAY, FEB 5 AT 7:30 PM.
An exciting evening of live Flamenco performance at an intimate up close setting featuring visiting Flamenco dancer Isaac Tovar.
This special performance will feature the flamenco art of reknown dancer Isaac Tovar. Also featured our Austin Flamenco Acadmey’s instructors/dancers Bianca Rodriguez and Drea Pacot. Musical accompaniment by guitarist Jose Manual Tejeda and cante by Celia Corrales.
BRING YOUR OWN DRINK TO ENJOY!!! At AFA we like to have a good time and create community. Enjoy whatever kind of libation you would like to drink during the event. Sangria and light tapas will also be available.
DOORS OPEN AT 7 PM
PARKING - Parking is limited, expect to park in the surrounding neighborhood.
ABOUT ISAAC TOVAR
Isaac Tovar is a former soloist of the Ballet Nacional de España, Ballet Flamenco de
Andalucía, Compañía Andaluza de Danza, Compañía Antonio "El Pipa", and Compañia Aída
Gomez, among many other premier national and international companies including
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Isaac was most recentlv soloist of the Ballet Mamenco de Andalucia. He has since
choreographed and performed at Lincoln Center in a production or Bizet S Carmen. He was
then featured alongside Esperanza Fernandez and conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto in
performances of Falla's Amor Brujo and El Sombrero de Tres Picos at the New World
Symphony Orchestra in Miami. Isaac headlined the Festival Flamenco at the Aga Khan
Museum in Toronto in Fall 2022. His first solo production "Añejo" debuted in Seville in 2018
and his second production "Generaciones" premiered at the prestigious Royal Theater in
Madrid in 2019.
Tovar is the recipient of numerous 1st prizes in dance: at the renowned Concurs IV
Internacional de Danza in Almería, the Concurso Nacional de la Perla de Cádiz and the
XXVII Concurso Nacional de Ubrique. He won the 2nd prize for Solo Choreography in the
XXV Certamen de Danza Española y Flamenco in Madrid. He performed as a semifinalist in
the LIX Festival Internacional del Cante de las Minas.
Over the years he has worked alongside flamenco legends such as José Antonio, Belén Maya,
Antonio Canáles. Iuana Amava. Antonio el Pipa and Rafaela Carrasco among many other
names. He received his higher education degree in Choreography and Interpretation from
the Conservatorio Superior de Danza "Maria de Avila" in Madrid and has decades of
experience teaching both flamenco and spanish dance throughout Europe, Canada and the
United States.
Throughout his career he has danced in important theaters around the world, including:
Place des Arts in Montreal, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatro de la Maestranza in
Sevilla, Teatro Villamarta in Jerez, Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Palace of Music in
Moscow, Chaillot Theater in Paris, Sadler's Wells of London, Bunkamura Theater in
Tokyo, International Theater in Taipel, Peking Opera House, and the oyce Theater in New York City.
