Drums, the heartbeat of music and dance and communal communicators
of cultures are the inspiration for Alborada’s exciting new production,
Heartbeats! Alborada and its Guest Artists: West African Dancer, Amazonas and
Puerto Rican Bomba Master, Nelson Baez and Los Cimarrones, will fill
the stage with riveting Drum and Dance Dialogues tracing the three roots
of Afro-Caribbean Music and Dance.
Alborada takes you on a journey through centuries of music and dance
from Spain’s age of exploration and colonization to the present day with
fabulous traditional costumes and live music. Audiences of all ages will be
dazzled by pounding feet, strumming guitars, cajon tapas, clicking
castanets, twirling fans, parasols, flying ruffles and fringed shawls in
Alborada’s Bailes de las Ida y Vuelta – Flamenco dance and music
inspired by the Caribbean as well as the driving rhythms and high power
dances and drumming of Africa and Puerto Rico.
The Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre, New Jersey’s premier
Spanish Dance Company’s passionate artistry reveals the many diverse
and historical threads that comprise the multicultural roots of Spanish
Dance and Music. Both entertaining and educational, the variety of its
repertoire runs the artistic gamut of Spanish Flamenco, regional and
classical dances performed by its critically acclaimed dancers and musicians.
As stated by Tammy LaGorce, New York Times, Alborada is
“awhirl in drama and color
Grant funding has been provided by the Middlesex County
Board of County Commissioners through a grant award from
the Middlesex County Cultural and Arts Trust Fund and
The Geraldine R. Foundation
