Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company
Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 2 and Monday 3 May 2004
at 7.30pm

Once again Paco Peña returns to the Festival Hall with his legendary flamenco company of dancers, singers and guitarists.

Having built on the successes of a career as a world-renowned flamenco artist, Paco brings us nothing less than a living art, full of vitality, poignancy and passion.

Indeed, with his breathtaking presentation, Paco sweeps us into a world of virtuoso guitar playing, intense singing and the fire of flamenco dancing to give us a complete and enthralling experience.

Flamenco emerged in the late 18th century in Andalusia, in southern Spain, as a particular form of singing - cante flamenco.

It was also a way of life, a subculture, that derived its inspiration from the act of living and survival.

But Andalusia was also the place where dancers have enchanted audiences for generations.

Add in the guitarist, with his virtuoso abilities to bring to Flamenco sharply contrasting lyricism and percussive rhythms, and we have a deeply complex art form that is without parallel.