From Seville, Spain, flamenco singer Rafael de Utrera and percussionist Juanma Lucas join Eric and Encarnación from Seattle’s Children of the Revolution for an evening of flamenco puro. This will be an intimate performance, featuring cante jondo (deep or profound song), dance numbers, and original flamenco compositions.
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Troupe and solo bellydance performances by:

• Harem Scare’um, Angela Silling’s student troupe

• Bahar, Jalene Hernandez’s student troupe

• Aegea Modern Bellydance

Rendezvous Jewel Box Theater at 2322 2nd Avenue
7pm doors, 7:30pm show • $5 suggested donation • 21+

I wish I was going to be here. There are a ton of FREE performances and workshops.

An evening of dance, community, and fun to benefit the Fremont Abbey Arts Center. Featuring Brazilian band, the infectious samba of Janelle Campoverde’s Afro-Brazilian dance students, and rumba dances by Cuban master José Carrión.

Where: The Fremont Abbey Arts Center, on the corner of N. 43rd and Fremont Avenue
When: 7-9pm
Why: The Fremont Abbey Arts Center is a non-profit community center hosting educational arts and cultural experiences for all ages. It’s mission is to help people express themselves and develop through the arts, thereby improving their lives and our society as a whole. The Abbey is a beautifully restored 1914 brick church, newly remodeled with a lot of volunteer labor. Janelle Campoverde’s Afro-Brazilian dance classes helped with some of the remodeling and are now happy to call it home. But the beautiful room where we dance needs additional work to improve the acoustics and moderate the thermostat, and we’re doing this benefit to support completing this work.

You can also donate online anytime at www.fremontabbey.org/donate.html

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to go. My teacher, director, and friend Heather Rastovac is moving to the Bay Area for school and this will probably be the last time I get to spend some quality time with her before she goes.

Here’s a clip of Unmata from Tribal Fest 09:

Location: Hiawatha Community Center, 2700 California Ave. SW,  Seattle, WA
When: Festival is 10am to 9pm Saturday and Sunday (July 18 & 19), Bahar is on Saturday at 7:30pm on the indoor stage
Cost: Free/Donation

Click here to see some photos taken from the show by Ken Broman.

Title: Dances Under the Crescent Moon
Location: Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Seattle
Description: Helene Eriksen’s Traditional Dance Theatre is a year-long intensive dance training project.  This year, nine dancers have worked diligently in learning the dances and creating the costumes for choreographies from a diverse cross-section of traditions: Berber dances of Tunisia, the urban dance Baladi from Egypt, Dabke from Lebanon, Dances of the Turkish Roma, a dreamy canopy dance from Azerbaijan, the rice harvest dance of the northern Iranian province of Gilan and the dance of the Kabeliya tribe of snake charmers from Rajasthan. I will be dancing in Baladi, Dabke, Turkish Roman, and Azeri. Helene will also be performing various solo dances.
TWO NIGHTS TO CHOOSE FROM: Friday, June 5 or Saturday, June 6 – both start at 8pm
BUY YOUR TICKETS AT: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/60808