Travesia Flamenca takes us on a journey in traditional Flamenco where music and dance meet, where moments provoke inspiration, where art invites and transcends the audience into the unknown.

Hailed “magnificent and utterly compelling” by The New York Times, Nélida Tirado began her formal training at Ballet Hispánico of New York at the age of six. Barely out of her teens, she was invited to tour the U.S. with José Molina Bailes Españoles and work as a soloist in Carlota Santana’s Flamenco Vivo, soloist/dance captain of Compañia Maria Pages and Compañia Antonio El Pipa, performing at prestigious flamenco festivals and television in Spain and throughout France, Italy, UK, Germany and Japan. She has performed with the MET Opera, World Music Institute’s “Gypsy Caravan 1,” “Noche Flamenca,” and was featured flamenco star in “Riverdance” on Broadway and touring companies. Ms. Tirado was recipient of the 2007 and 2010 BRIO Award for Artistic Excellence, and opened for Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portoundo for the Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival. Some highlights include HarlemStage E-Moves, “Amores Quebrados” at the Repertorio Español, Valerie Gladstone’s “Dance Under the Influence” 2011 & 2012, and the 2016 premiere of her solo show "Dime Quien Soy" in Flamenco Festival NY. She was recipient of the 2017 Rosario Dawson Muse Fellow through BAAD!, can be seen in the Warner Brother’s film adaption of Lin Manuel Miranda’s “In The Heights,” and featured as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.” She most recently completed a bubble residency at The Jacob’s Pillow Lab March 2021.

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