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Flamenco for Kids, August, 2025!

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About Flamenco

Flamenco is a Spanish performance art trifecta that incorporates soulful singing, intricate, virtuosic guitar, and dance that embodies tension between grounded footwork and soaring arms. Flamenco’s unique characteristics come from the amalgam of cultures that influenced southern Spain across centuries, including Roma, Moorish, Judaic, Afro-Iberian, Spanish Catholic, and New World cultures. Early influences formed in the crucible of the Spanish Inquisition, later influences came through trade with and travel to the Americas, and globalization today continues to shape the art. Flamenco evolved from marginalized minorities of the southern province of Andalucía, and it embraces the entire spectrum of human emotion. Deep emotional expression with roots across myriad traditions, enables flamenco to resonate profoundly across cultural boundaries. Constantly shifting, flamenco is an art of Spanish origin that exists in conversation with a global community.

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Mission

Based in Phoenix, AZ, Julia Chacón Flamenco Theatre was founded in 2008 as Inspiración Flamenca. Our mission is to advance the expressive power of flamenco while empowering youth and adults to explore physical expression as a path to confidence, self-awareness, and cross-cultural understanding.

We offer inclusive performances, educational opportunities, and community programs that amplify the visibility and relevance of flamenco as a global art form rooted in centuries of cultural exchange. By honoring flamenco’s richly layered heritage—including Roma, Jewish, Arabic, Spanish, African, and Latin American traditions—we foster connection, curiosity, and compassion across generations and borders.

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Flamenco Community

Julia Chacon’s Flamenco Theatre operates under the premise that the best flamenco comes from relationships built on trust, respect and confidence; the same qualities that are necessary to support the sensitive rhythmic and musical communication between artists on stage. To perform flamenco, one must constantly listen, be present, be flexible and have a humble willingness to grow, improve and evolve. In our community, artists, students and audience members come together to create the environment where this energy is able to thrive.

Julia Chacon Flamenco Theater is the only flamenco repertory company in Arizona. We employ a stable of professional artists with national and international experience, and offer opportunity to aspiring artists across the Valley.

We offer performances, classes, and arts-education programs in the Phoenix Valley and beyond. Click here for more info.

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