Fri 6/2-Sat 6/3 @ 7:30PM
Flamenco dancer/choreographer Alice Blumenfeld may have the least flamenco-like name ever, but she’s a well-respected artist in her field, with a Fulbright Grant to study dance in Spain and a 2008 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts award. She’s lived, traveled and performed all over, but she landed in Cleveland a few years ago, where she established her Abrepaso Flamenco dance company.
They’ve been performing at a lot of venues and events, but now she’s bringing the world premiere of her one-woman evening-length performance, A. Peripum, to Tremont’s Pilgrim Church.
She shares that “Periplum is a term coined by Ezra Pound, signifying, ‘A journey not by fixed charts or stars, but by intuition and reason’”and describes the performance as a “journey from the landscapes of our inner longings to the literal and figurative mountains we must climb on the way to becoming ourselves.”
She’ll perform the work, choreographed by Felisa Bagley, familiar to local audiences as a longtime former member of GroundWorks DanceTheater, to music performed live by jazz trumpet player Dominick Farinacci, a Cleveland native who has gone on to an international music career. Joshua M. Lawhorn provides the visual enhancement with short films that depict locations such as the industrial Midwest and New Mexican landscapes, two of the places where Blumenfeld has lived and worked.
Get information and tickets here.