íntimo will take you on a journey through the six works of the company, Jesus Muñoz Flamenco.  The performance will share never-before-seen works from the collective sextet series.  Featured during Hispanic Heritage month, íntimo will showcase global artists from Europe to Latin America in this weekend long performance in Albuquerque's finest theatres. 

Casa Flamenca and the NHCC present Jesús Muñoz Flamenco in Red Note—borrowed from the tastefully symbolic “Blue Note Jazz Club” and exploring dynamic, visionary movements in dance, music, and visual art inspired by cante flamenco. Like jazz, flamenco has its roots in raw, intimate improvisation upon standard structures; it improvises through interpretations of the structures of cante jondo, or deep song. Red Note features original music and works composed and performed by a cast of international dancers and musicians.

Meanwhile, sometimes we find a way to communicate and collaborate with each other and this concert is meant to be inclusive, rather than exclusive.  With all the heat on immigration, rights for women and working class citizens-Jesus Muñoz Flamenco is asking New Mexico youth a question as part of a NM statewide writing and drawing competition.  "What does it mean to be American to you?"  The idea is to bring this question to life with a concert influenced by the answers of the children and youth.  There is no right or wrong-only reflection.  Sometimes we forget, they will often teach us much more than we will teach them.  How do they see the world?

The world of flamenco’s “Golden Age,” left behind all too soon, comes to life again in 2013 with a cast of sublime, world-class artists who will revive an era through a fresh combination of youth, creativity and modern-day groove. 1929 is used as a platform year for exploration throughout the Golden Age of Flamenco. The concert will feature some of Flamenco’s emerging artists from Spain and Internationally. 1929 takes the risk of developing traditional melodic and harmonic structures through funky drop tunings and doubled up, half time rhythms that have been performed by very few dancers, if ever, in full concert.

From the Gypsy language of Caló, Techarí means to be free—not under the control or power of another. In this production, Jesús Muñoz Flamenco explores the concept of Techarí through one of flamenco’s most profound and mysterious palos (rhythms)—a palo that normally was sung behind closed doors, a palo so potent, so profound and so absolutely distinctive that if sung during the time of the Franco regime in Spain it could mean immediate execution or forced exile. Rather than hide, some chose to express their intimacies, their pain and their sorrows, and to live just one moment in time where they felt what it was to be free, Techarí.

The Palladium Project shares a life and love of music and cultural blending through the integration of Latin American music and dance into the Gypsy, Judaic, and Moorish-Spanish art form of flamenco. The Palladium is a musical academy/concert hall/movie theatre/nightclub built in New York City in 1927, which subsequently became a highly prestigious and desirable performance venue primarily because of the amazing sound developed by Richard Long.