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Nine-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys performs at the Palau Sant Jordi, Barcelona as she tours her latest album, The Element of Freedom. A classically trained pianist and gifted songwriter, she is also blessed with a strong, soulful voice.

Some of Keys’ earliest compositions featured on her 2001 debut album, Songs in A Minor, which was released when she was just 19. A deep, melodic collection of R&B and hip-hop-inspired material, the album sold massively and paved the way for her continuing success.

Purchasing entry tickets

• By internet:
• By phone: +34-902 33 22 11
  (from 08:00h to 24:00h).
• ServiCaixa terminals

• By Internet:
• By phone: +34-902 150 025.

From Saturday, May 15th at 16:30 until Sunday, May 16 at 11:30

Sunny Singh, the choreographer and dancer born in Mumbai, India, transmits the most authentic and original spirit of Bollywood, the film industry and Indian dance. With an experience of more than a decade in Bollywood film industry ..  Participation in over 53 films, several foreign productions in Hong Kong and London.  Also as an expert choreographer offers the most faithful style and sense of current and modern Bollywood dance. Currently in Spain has its own set of artistic, BAILAMOS BOLLYWOOD, teaching Bollywood dance classes to anyone who wishes.

Come and enjoy a Bollywood dance Class!!!

Where: Escuela de baile “asisebaila”  (Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 432)

More info: Ph. 687 93 17 87   www.asisebaila.com

Niu is a community that supports and helps artists flourish. Going beyond simply hosting exhibitions, concerts and workshops, the space offers creative services to companies and artists alike. They employ dancers, DJs, graffiti artists and others for parties and festivals and even help artists build their websites and create press releases.

FunDub 2009 :: ecos de una ciudad :: Barcelona from FunDub on Vimeo.

The Flamenco Festival of Ciutat Vella is a chance to enjoy the voices, dances, and guitars of both famous flamenco artists and emerging talents. The shows will take place from May 19 to 22 at the CCCB and Mercat de les Flors and is ideal for those who want to experience some of Spain´s most traditional dance and music. http://www.flamencociutatvella.com/

It’s that time of year again! As Barcelona’s winter continues to fling a surprising array of nastiness at us, we’re already getting the occasional day that lets us dream of spring. And spring in Barcelona means one thing: the Primavera Sound festival. This year’s festival takes place from the 27th to the 29th of May, at the Parc del Fòrum.

This is the line up so far. It’s pretty much final, though a few more acts will likely be named. The big names so far appear to be The Charlatans, The Fall, Gary Numan, Orbital, Pet Shop Boys, Pixies, Wilco and Wire.

Confirmed artists: A Sunny Day In Glasgow, The Almighty Defenders, The Antlers, Apse, Atlas Sound, Beach House, Beak>, Ben Frost, Best Coast, The Big Pink, Bigott, Bis, Biscuit, Black Lips, Black Math Horseman, The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77, The Books, Boy 8-Bit, Broken Social Scene, Built To Spill, The Bundles, Camarón: La Leyenda Del Tiempo 30 Años Después (Kiko Veneno, Duquende and Chicuelo amongst others), The Charlatans performing “Some Friendly”, Circulatory System, The Clean, CocoRosie, Cohete, Cold Cave, Condo Fucks, Crocodiles, Delorean, Diplo, Dr. Dog, The Drums, Dum Dum Girls, Emilio José, Endless Boogie, Fake Blood, The Fall, The Field, Florence + The Machine, Fuck Buttons, Ganglians, Gary Numan, Grizzly Bear, Half Foot Outside, HEALTH, Here We Go Magic, Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, Japandroids, Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard, Joker featuring Nomad, Junip, The King Khan & BBQ Show, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Les Savy Fav, Lidia Damunt, Liquid Liquid, Low perfoming “The Great Destroyer”, Major Lazer, Marc Almond, Matt & Kim, Mission of Burma, Moderat, Monotonix, Mujeres, Nana Grizol, The New Pornographers, No Age, Nueva Vulcano, Orbital, Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), Panda Bear, Pavement, Pet Shop Boys, Pixies, Polvo, The Psychic Paramount, Real Estate, Roddy Frame, Scout Niblett, Seefeel, Shellac, Sian Alice Group, Sic Alps, Sleigh Bells, The Slits, The Smith Westerns, Spoon, Standstill, Sunny Day Real Estate, Superchunk, Surfer Blood, Thee Oh Sees, Titus Andronicus, Tortoise, Ui, The Wave Pictures, Wilco, Wild Beasts, Wild Honey, Wire, The XX, Yeasayer.

TICKETS:

Next Sunday 21st of February is the last day to buy the full festival ticket at the price of 140€ (+ booking fee). From Monday the 22nd of February these tickets will cost 150€ (+ booking fee). The sales points are: Ticketmaster network (Tick Tack Ticket), Servicaixa, Atrapalo.com Spain, Atrapalo.com Italy, Codetickets, the CD Drome shops, Seetickets UK, Fnac France and through PayPal on the festival webpage.

Access to San Miguel Primavera Club / San Miguel Primavera Sound
http://primaverasound.com/

LISTEN TO THE FESTIVAL’S LINE-UP ON PRIMAVERA RADIO
http://www.scannerfm.com/player/player_only_primavera_v0.2.html

Teatro Romea presents a slightly different version of “sleeping Beauty”, performed by Santa Coloma de Gramane Ballet and under the direction of David Campos. He aimed to modernize the classical ballet story, turning it into a more contemporary and cinematic act. To achieve this visual effect, the director has used multimedia projections and virtual sets, making the characters in the story more vivid than ever.
Showing Times: Tues- Fri (incl. 7 Dec.)- 9pm, Saturdays- 6.30pm; 9.30pm, Sundays and Holidays- 6.30pm
Tickets: Teatro Romea. Ticket Office: http://www.telentrada.com/  Ph.902 10 12 12

Until Sun 19 Oct

Av Litoral/Carrer de Josep Plá    35- 70€   See calendar & Buy tickets

Quidam: a nameless passer-by, a solitary figure lingering on a street corner, a person rushing past. It could be anyone, anybody. Someone coming, going, living in our anonymous society. A member of the crowd, one of the silent majority. The one who cries out, sings and dreams within us all. This is the “quidam” that Cirque du Soleil is celebrating.

A young girl fumes; she has already seen everything there is to see, and her world has lost all meaning. Her anger shatters her little world, and she finds herself in the universe of Quidam. She is joined by a joyful companion as well as another character, more mysterious, who will attempt to seduce her with the marvelous, the unsettling, and the terrifying.  (Taken from www.cirquedusoleil.com).

Tue 16 – Wed 24 Sep 08

This is the 7th edition of the Asia Festival, this year is dedicated to India. During this time there will be more than fifty activities and shows in three different places: Ciutadella Park, Mercat de les Flors and CaixaForum.

More info

(Taken from www.casaasia.es)

Programme

Tue 16 & Wed 17 Sep 08

9pm at Mercat de les Flors (Lleida, 59)  22€  Buy tickets

Akram Khan cultivates the art of the encounter, in search of an identity that goes through all borders from a dance energetic and full of personal stories that become universal.

This work, carried out with the training of classical ballet of China, supposes a continuation of the eagerness for Khan to combine different traditional dances with the goal to create a new vocabulary and original in this field. In “bahok”, a word Bengali that means “carriers”, dancers coming from different cultures, traditions and origins (Chinese, Koreans, Indians, South Africans and Catalans) show the updated version of the tower of Babel.

Akram Khan is one of the most prestigious choreographers of the international scene and one of the more distinguished dancers of his generation, famous for his intercultural and interdisciplinary collaborations and to challenge the conventional ideas about the traditional forms of dance.

The National Ballet of China – NBC, headquartered in Beijing, was founded on December 31, 1959, and is the only national ballet troupe of the country. Master Peter Gushev from the former Soviet Union laid a solid foundation of classical ballet for the NBC.

NBC has produced Chinese ballets, Western ballets, modern ballets, as well as modern dances. Many NBC dancers have won gold, silver and bronze medals at various international ballet competitions. (Taken from www.mercatflors.org & www.wikipedia.org)

Wed 3, Thu 4, Fri 5 Sep at 8pm
Sat 6 Sep 5pm & 9:30pm

At Gran Teatre del Liceu (La Rambla, 51-59) 14,25 – 95,75€ Buy tickets

The Balé da Cidade de São Paulo was founded in 1968. The contemporary idiom of its dancers has been further enriched by the company’s Brazilian flavour. With Mônica Mion as its artistic director, it has consolidated its position among the most innovative and original ballet troupes and has accepted the collaboration of top-ranking choreographers. For its debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu it offers a programme representative of its wide and varied repertory.

The piece by Gagik Ismailian (created specially for it in 2001) mingles fados sung by Amália Rodrigues with music by Wim Mertens and seeks, in the words of the choreographer, «to use the disquiet and melancholy of the fado to choreograph a love that is constant, violent, and almost tribal».

Perpetuum, on the other hand, is one of Ohad Naharin’s most surprising, variegated and popular choreographies. This veritable classic of contemporary dance, performed to waltz rhythms by Johann Strauss II, parodies drama, opera and dance itself in a whirlwind of humour, irony and colour.

The programme also features a new work by Cayetano Soto, a choreographer born in Sabadell who is a member of IT Dansa and the Ballett Theater München. Soto’s new ballet will be included in the repertory of the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo in its forthcoming international tours. (Taken from www.liceubarcelona.com)