Alba Flamenca Competitors

Flamenco Express have been a touring company since 1996, with over 300 performances in more than 250 venues booked to date. The Flamenco Express performance showcases a full range of flamenco forms in a manner both accessible and stimulating to a broad modern audience, without compromising or watering down the style and conviction of true flamenco. From a development point of view, flamenco's range of musicality, rhythms and free-flowing improvisation is as wide as any jazz, classical or blues audience could hope to hear, and attracts diverse audiences reflecting a broad range of interests and age groups. From Hip-Hop to hip-op. It also serves as an introduction to dance theatre for those who would not normally consider paying to see a ballet or contemporary company. Flamenco is both popular music and that rarest of creatures, popular theatre dance which works in both large and small venues. Flamenco Express has an audience appeal which reaches far beyond the traditional world of the 'aficionado'. In recent years there has been a renaissance within contemporary flamenco, with people turning-on to it on a global scale. Having spent years in the wilderness of tacky bars and restaurants, flamenco has taken up its rightful place as one of the world most highly developed and expressive roots art forms, and is regularly found topping the bills at jazz, world music, and dance festivals world wide. Artists as diverse as Carlos Santana, Twyla Tharpe, Mark Morris, José Carreras, Björk and even the Spice Girls have been inspired by their collaborations with flamenco artists, and yet there remains the darker, elusive and highly addictive quality in flamenco puro which ensnares audiences and leaves them needing more and more.

Founded quarter a century ago in 1989 by Rosario & Victor Centro Flamenco stands today as the cornerstone of flamenco arts in Vancouver, having given birth to many of Canada’s top contemporary flamenco dancers while popularizing the form to unprecedented large audiences both at home and out-of-province.

Viva Flamenco is a truly international dance group and company that has entertained audiences all over the world, from Ipswich to Indonesia (the Intercontinental Hotel in Jakarta) and Guilford to the Gulf, plus Bahrain (mostly Hilton and Sheraton hotels). London venues include the Royal Albert Hall, the Festival Hall, the Barbican and many major hotels. Numerous television programmes world-wide and film credits including "The Curse of the Pink Panther". They have also performed as a twenty piece company in the world's biggest production of the opera Carmen at the national indoor arena in Birmingham and in Dortmund in Germany. The group normally consists of two dancers, a singer and a guitarist, Juan Ramirez who manages Viva Flamenco. Any size group or company can be provided, also individual artists, e.g. solo guitarists, dancers and singers.