Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana: QUINTO ELEMENTO
About This Event
Carlota Santana, a flamenco dancer and artistic director closely associated with New York stages, leads Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at The Joyce Theater. In QUINTO ELEMENTO the company frames flamenco as both concert dance and living tradition, favoring structural clarity and rhythmic precision and highlighting the dialogue among cante, guitar and movement while preserving the form’s communal roots.
About QUINTO ELEMENTO
At The Joyce Theater, *Quinto Elemento* arrives in New York as a live dance program led by Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, with Carlota Santana featured onstage. The work draws on flamenco’s formal vocabulary—rhythm, footwork, and percussive phrasing—while testing how far that tradition can be stretched in a contemporary theater setting. In a city where flamenco has often been presented as heritage, this staging treats it as a living form with room for argument and change. The most telling moments are when restraint, not speed, carries the drama.
About the Artists
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana is a dance company rooted in Spanish flamenco and shaped by the direction and performance legacy of Carlota Santana. In New York City, the group appears at venues including The Joyce Theater, where it presents works such as *Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana: QUINTO ELEMENTO*.
Carlota Santana
Carlota Santana is a flamenco dancer and artistic director whose work is closely associated with New York City stages, including The Joyce Theater. She leads Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, a company that frames flamenco as both concert dance and living tradition.