About this Event
¡¡¡Flamenco Nights at El Lopo!!! CarOlé Flamenco's Compañía FSDT Select Saturdays 5:30 PM El Lopo 1327 Polk Street San Francisco Join Ms. CarOlé Flamenco and members of the company from FSDT in cozy, site-specific shows at El Lopo Bodega. Dance • Music • Tapas • Good Vibes Experience up close, cozy, mesmerizing flamenco on select Saturdays at a quaint bodega. These are artists of large theaters, here in an intimate tavern, close enough to feel every beat. Palpable artistry. Delicious tapas and beverages. A special treat: each show, a varied line-up of artists. Two-item minimum. Info, tickets, and details at caroleflamenco.com Private and group master classes available. CarOlé Flamenco is a fifth-generation flamenco and Spanish dancer of Gitana, Spanish, Afro-Latina, Yaqui, Sephardic Jewish, Mexican, and Irish heritage. A union actor, stand-up comedian, singer, choreographer, published author, and Master of Fine Arts candidate, she is the director and principal artist of CarOlé Flamenco's Compañía FSDT, the oldest flamenco and Spanish dance theatre company in the Americas. A professional since fourteen, working in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and beyond, her credits include a principal role in the feature film Meisner, directed by Jim Parrack; and voice and percussion recordings for Lucasfilm. At The San Francisco Dungeon (Merlin Entertainments), she was a lead actor, playing all the roles. In concert, she partnered with Antonio Vargas, a highly regarded flamenco dancer and principal actor in the film Strictly Ballroom, and appeared as a soloist alongside him. She has also performed as a soloist and choreographed with symphonies and operas, including Shanghai Opera. As a stand-up comedian, she has played many comedy clubs, including the Punch Line Comedy Club and Caroline's in New York. Highlights: "Top Flamenco Dancer in America" (So You Think You Can Dance); Isadora Duncan Dance Award nominee; selected dancer, Battle of the Dance; hand-selected by Jennifer Lopez for ¡Qué Viva! The Chosen. CarOlé is a yogi, Transcendental Meditation practitioner, liberated sage, and is completing her ISMETA-approved certification to be a somatics practitioner. She is currently creating her one-person show. Her work takes on oppression and reaches toward liberation: survivance, preservation, evolution. caroleflamenco.com
Event venue & nearby stays
El Lopo, 1327 Polk Street, San Francisco, United States
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