Compañía Nélida Tirado Flamenco

Hailed by The New York Times as “magnificent," flamenco dancer Nélida Tirado is internationally recognized for her intensity, natural grace, and powerful style. Based in New York City, Tirado choreographs, teaches, and presents her work at venues such as Joe’s Pub, Joyce Soho, Symphony Space, and many others.

Nélida's artistic vision and choreography is informed by the origin narratives of anguish and survival, love and loss, beauty and pain, life and death in both Flamenco and Latin dance. Flamenco's birth roots from both fusion and exodus sprang of Moorish, Jewish and Roma/Gypsy cultures of the Iberian Peninsula. Latin dance/music sprang from Caribbean migration and cultural exchanges in New York City. Both forms are continually imagining and reinventing themselves far beyond legacies of colonization and slavery. For both, music and dance were the voice of these oppressed communities and where "rebellious disobedience" was necessary to affirm their existence. While Flamenco and Latin dance are singular and distinctive as separate music and movement forms, Nélida's relationship to both affirms not only her identity but also resonates in her style.

Utterly compelling...

The New York Times