Flamenco dancer hopes N.M. roots flourish

That is why its concert at the Outpost Performance Space is titled “Cante, Guitarra y Baile.”

“We’re doing a very traditional show but with contemporary choreography. It’s pure flamenco,” Maresma Fois said in a phone interview from Chicago.

	Adriana Maresma Fois & AMFlamenco WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13 WHERE: Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale SE HOW MUCH: $25 general public, $20 students and Outpost members at the Outpost or by calling 268-0044 or at the door

Her company, headquartered in Jerez, Spain, is giving three concerts on its American tour. The first two are in Chicago and in Taos. All three have the same content.

Maresma Fois said she and Jose Moro will present a variety of flamenco dance styles. One is a fandango, which is an upbeat, happy, folklike dance from Huelva, Spain.

“It has a strong masculine side, and I am with a fan showing the feminine side. It’s a very sensual dance, too, and very rhythmic,” she said.

Other dances include an alegrías, which Moro is soloing in; a soleá por bulerías, which Maresma Fois said is slow but with the vocals adding depth; a taranta for solo guitar played by Juan Antonio Gómez; and the closing fín de fiesta, music that is played at traditional Spanish Gypsy parties.

The ensemble’s singer is Vicente Griego, who is from northern New Mexico.

Maresma Fois herself is an Albuquerque native. She started studying flamenco at the University of Granada in Spain, which she attended as an exchange student from the University of New Mexico. She completed her undergraduate degree at UNM with a double major in flamenco dance and photography before joining Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco’s touring company.

“I spent five years with her company,” Maresma Fois said. “Half of our season was in New York City, and we toured the United States and Canada.”

From there she joined the company Flamencos En Route in Switzerland and then three years ago she organized her own company in Spain.