BELÉN MAYA is providing a workshop for WeFlamencoFest San Antonio direct from AMOR DE DIOS.
The class/lecture will be about bailaora, female roles and female energy, body codes, movement, palos and aesthetic.
While this workshop is being provided for WeFlamencoFest San Antonio, it is available to any student who wishes to take the class via Zoom.
MORE DETAILS TO COME ON PRICING, SCHEDULE AND CURRICULUM.
NOV 9 12pm San Antonio/ 7pm Madrid
FEMININE TECHNIQUE AND ANATOMY
CLASS:
$40 En Directo
$60 En Directo + Grabaciones
NOV 10 12pm San Antonio/ 7pm Madrid
FLAMENCAS DIVERSAS: Lecture on the bailaora, female roles and female energy, body codes, movement, palos and aesthetic.
LECTURE:
$15 general admission,
$10/ student
Payment: Paypal, [email protected]
Photography by Ana Palma
BELÉN MAYA is one of the most important female flamenco dancers performing today. As the daughter of the legendary, Mario Maya, who single-handedly revolutionized flamenco through his choreography and large-format company, Belén was born into greatness. However, she has managed to build a stellar reputation that’s based more on her own work and personal style than on her family name. Belén is tremendously prolific, with work oscillating between the traditional and the contemporary, and she regularly tours the world performing and teaching.
Belén Maya García was born by chance in New York in 1966 during one of her parents' tours, the dancers Mario Maya and Carmen Mora. This explains why Belén began dancing from a very young age. She studied classical, Hindu and contemporary dance in Italy, Germany and England.
She debuted at the Zambra tablao, after her studies in Amor de Dios. Later, she performed at the Café de Chinitas and Corral de la Pacheca. She entered the Spanish National Ballet and a year later joined the company of Mario Maya, her father. Upon establishing her own company, she goes on tour through Japan until becoming a part of the Andalusian Dance Company.
In 1997, she creates a company with the singer Mayte Martín. This partnership resulted in two shows: "Mayte Martín and Belén Maya" and "Flamenco de Cámara". Both triumphed in important festivals such as the Jerez (2002 and 2003) In 2004, she performed in “Los Caminos de Lorca” with the Andalusian Dance Company and performed at the debut of "Fuera de los Límites" with Rafaela Carrasco.
In 2005, she presented the show “Dibujos” in Madrid. After a long period of study with Juan Carlos Lérida and David Montero, Belén presents “Souvenir“ and “La Voz de su Amo” in March 2007. In 2008, she worked as guest artist in the show” Mujeres”, a production of the Andalusian Agency for Development of Flamenco.
In 2009 and 2010, Belén Maya works in the production of "Bailes Alegres para Personas Tristes" and continues with national and international tours of "La Voz de Su Amo" and "Solos", the new version of the show "Dibujos" and other shows in which she performs as guest artist. In 2014, Belén Maya celebrates three decades of professional life with "Los Invitados", a show that was given the Critic's Award at the Jerez Festival, the world's most important prize, dedicated to flamenco dance. In 2015, she presents the show “Romnia” (women, in Romanian), of which she claims: ” Romnia are the voices of gypsy women who are not flamencas, but full of jondura. My body aims to give life to those black sounds that arrive from the Orient full of sorrows kneaded by thousands of displaced persons throughout our history.”
TEACHING, PERFORMANCE RESIDENCIES AND LECTURES
Performance and teaching residency, Duke University Dance Program Legacy Oral History Project, Duke Universities Library, February, 2016.
Lecturer, with theater director Paco Suarez and flamencologist Joaquin Lopez Bustamante, in Hay Festival Segovia , about Roma (gipsies) in Classical Greek theater, 2017
Performance and teaching residencies, Clark University Worchester, MA; Berklee School of Music, Boston, MA; Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; Seattle Central College; and Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 2017
Performance and teaching residency, University of Kansas, Lawrence, January-March 2019
“De Federico a Silverio, con Amor” (From Federico to Silverio… with Love”), lecturer with reknown author and Lorca’s expert Jose Javier León, 2019
“FLAMENCA DIVERSA: Estética, concepto, técnica y reivindicación en la bailaora flamenca” (“DIVERSE FLAMENCA: aesthetics, concept, technique and feminist claims in the flamenco woman dancer”), Málaga 2020
“Yo quiero ser humana” (“I want to be human”), lecture about creative process and life as a woman artist, Fundación Garcia Lorca, Granada 2020
“La muñeca subversiva” (“The SubversiveDoll”), lecture about the role of women and gender in Flamenco, El Dorado (Barcelona) 2019, Universidad Pablo de Olavide Sevilla, 2020
“Bailar Después” (“Dancing After”), lecture about flamenco during and after coronavirus.