Pasión y Arte

Pasión y Arte

A World of Music Series
Pasión y Arte

Date & Price

Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 1:00 and 4:00 pm

Exhibition Hall


Tickets

Free with Gardens Admission

Timed Admission Tickets required

Timed Reservations required for Members

Reservations not required for Gardens Premium Members and Innovators

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis

Tickets and Member reservations available in late January 2025

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From familiar faces to new artists to discover, our Indoor Performance Series showcases the beauty of the performing arts in the beauty of our Gardens.

What is a Tablao?

Like the atmosphere once created when beat poets gathered to recite verses, Tablao refers to the casual venues where flamencos showcased their dancing until the art was institutionalized in theatrical performances. Flamenco emerged as a unique art form in the 15th century. Spanish Gypsies (or Roma) danced flamenco privately in their rural homes. The dance gradually migrated from the countryside to the cities in the south of Spain, where Gypsy artists performed on the streets and in plazas. By the 1840s, nightclubs called “Cafes del Cante” began to host flamenco Tablaos, giving flamencos the opportunity to demonstrate their extraordinary skills at improvising movement within the confines of strict musical and rhythmic structures. The cafes were the first enterprises to pay flamenco dancers, singers, and musicians and as a result commercial flamenco was born. These performances helped flamenco to grow and introduced non-Gypsy audiences to the art form.  

Pasión y Arte’s reiteration of Anatomy of Tablao recreates the feeling of the original Tablao setting by using the intimacy offered by Longwood's Exhibition Hall. Anatomy of Tablao includes a section during which Pasión y Arte dissects all the different components of a traditional Tablao performance.  Artistic Director Elba Hevia y Vaca shows how the dancers communicate with the musicians throughout their dance in a traditional Tablao in the first half of the performance.