Best Free Flamenco Venues In Dallas Near Me

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The mission of The Flame Foundation is to educate and promote knowledge, skill, and appreciation of the performing and visual arts to children and adults in Dallas TX. Our primary focus is in Flamenco dance, music, and its history.



"Flame brings the art of the ages to the families of today"


In 2009, The Flame Foundation was founded by flamenco dancer and theater actress Delilah Buitrón and culinary chef/musician Troy Gardner. Inspired by a vision to bring flamenco to a wider audience, The Dallas Flamenco Festival was launched in 2009. The festival featured high quality flamenco performances and workshops lead by professional visiting guest artists. Since 2009, The Dallas Flamenco Festival has received international acclaim with interest from many professional flamencos from Spain and around the world, providing performance and training opportunities for flamenco oficionados in Dallas.


With the support of Ochre House Theater, the Office of Cultural Affairs, and our generous patrons, The Dallas Flamenco Festival has grown exponentially. In addition to the flamenco workshops and classes, the festival now features children and adult student performances lead by professional flamencos, and a theatrical flamenco collaboration with Ochre House Theater.


Since Flame's inception of its major and longest running project, The Dallas Flamenco Festival, five very successful dance-theater collaborations have been produced with Ochre House Theater, beginning in 2012. In 2014, one of their collaborations, PERRO Y SANGRE, went on tour to New York City and performed at LATEA Theater.


The Flame Foundation reached a dream community educational goal by launching two free after school FLAMENKITOS programs at Sanger Elementary (DISD) and a FLAMENKITOS program at the Estudio Flamenco Conservatory of Dallas. Recently, more of Flame's Flamenkitos programs have been included as part of the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs artistic programming for 2017-2020 season.

4worldlovers: As we’re all excruciatingly aware, these are wacko times. The new play by Kevin Grammer inhabits our modern milieu like an ostrich swimming in cabbage. It floats on the Ochre season’s theme of empowering women.

As we begin, our heroine does something many would consider courageous and, naturally, now fears for her life.


Fortunately (for the audience), she is surrounded by an eccentric collection of family, friends, and strangers who in turn know exactly what this broken woman should do to restore her peace.


“Playwright Kevin Grammer’s Darken, Less a Light On at Ochre House Theater has a foot in two worlds—the Absurd and the All Too Possible.”


“…the music is great, the acting lively, and the play’s focus on freedoms gives us plenty to ponder on the way home.”


Set in a nearby dystopian future, Darken, Less a Light On is essentially a treatise on fear. Of demons internal and external. Of the boogeymen we all must face or flee. Complete with music and melodrama. Will our protagonist break the feminine mystique or suffer the feminine mistake?

Don’t wait for Godot. Get your tickets now for this absurdist romp.

4worldlovers: Cafe Madrid offers patrons a cozy, intimate dining setting reminiscent of the little cafes found on the streets of Madrid. Family owned and operated and honored as one of D magazine’s “Best,” Cafe Madrid features such Spanish classics as paella, fried calamare, shrimp in garlic, and grilled quail. Wine Spectator Magazine honored Cafe Madrid for their unique wine list, which includes 85 varieties of Spanish wines and sherries. A private dining room is available for parties, meetings and special events.

“Cafe Madrid is still the best and everyone knows it,” says D magazine.

Stop by after work and join us for Happy Hour, Monday through Friday, from 5:00-6:00 pm.

On the first Friday of every month from 8:00-10:00 pm, come enjoy our “First Friday Flamenco” with tapas, wine, sangria and flamenco dancing… Olé! Call for reservations: 214-528-1731.

We are a casual restaurant, but you can be as dressy as you care to be.

Yes, we are happy to take any reservation! However, please be advised, for a large group of 15 or more, we do require a pre-set menu. Please ask to speak with our manager to arrange this ahead of time.

We do cater events around the metroplex. Please ask to speak to our catering manager, and we would be happy to design a menu for you.

Three tapas are a great way to get your evening started. If you’re still hungry, just order more.

4worldlovers: The universe in Chris George’s The Occultation (Surveyor Books, 2021) is dark and nihilistic but also filled with morbid humor, and even redemption. A missing disabled mother leads her caretaker daughter on a barefoot late-night odyssey in “The Suicide,” an alcoholic finds solace and comfort in an abandoned flying-saucer house on a stormy night in “A Small Good Place;” these stories wind their way through human suffering and frailty.

Review for Oak Cliff-Hangers: Stories in a Snow Globe by Sherrie Zantea

Sherrie Zantea, known by her stage name, Candy, is a luminary in the Dallas poetry community. She is the brilliant leader behind the Dallas Poetry Slam organization and has been making literary history for more than 20 years. Her chapbook, Oak Cliff-Hangers: Stories in a Snow Globe (Deep Vellum Publishing, 2021) reflects on growing up in Oak Cliff with heartbreaking candor and soaring hope.

Alex Temblador’s latest novel, Half Outlaw (Blackstone Publishing, 2022), is a hell of a ride. The story follows Raqi (pronounced “Rocky”), a successful LA attorney in her 30s, as she grapples with grief, trauma, relationships, and her profoundly complicated family, who are members of the Lawless, a drug-running, gun-dealing motorcycle club. As your friendly neighborhood poet, I’ll be honest: I don’t read many novels, but this book’s heartrending characters, cross-country trek, and magical realism had me hooked.

Liberation of Dissonance (Schaffner Press, 2022) strikes a balance between forte and piano, legato and staccato – the Italian markers dictating musical dynamics.

This October, The Wild Detectives present a frightfully good campaign with a mission to help young readers avoid library and school bans on books.

The World’s biggest soccer tournament is gone and fans are experiencing withdrawal now that there’s not four games a day. Which is why we decided to surprise them with our very own tournament, with a very unique touch.

Banvertising – A campaign that takes real, negative quotes from the people who are trying to disqualify books and uses their hateful words to promote those same books they’re trying to ban. In a few words: we will turn these books’ worst critics into their best reviews.

Ayesha Asad’s Waveborne (Bottlecap Press, 2022) carries on its crest a blend of cultural identity, resettling, growth, striving. The poems present few breaks; they just keep moving, like determined waves destined for shore, full of radiance.

Matthew W. Baker’s debut chapbook Undoing the Hide’s Taut Musculature (Finishing Line Press, 2019) is a visceral and incisive exploration of what it means to have a body. Baker’s poems delve into mortality, illness, surgical interventions both elective and necessary, and radical changes both voluntary and beyond the speaker’s control. The speaker in these poems grapples with isolation and relationships, offering an unflinching portrayal of the mother/son dynamic.

In Better Ways to See, Alan Gann offers us a fresh pair of eyes to catch the details we are likely to miss in the natural world. Every poem seems to ask, “why not sing or bloom or fly?” (“spiral orb”). Part I of this collection, “Wanderings with birds,” literally gave me the sensation of having wings, of believing “We each sing our morning notes/ to remind the world/ I’m still here and no matter/ what happens before night descends/ all contribute/ to the golden-holy-resplendent song divergent” (“Chorus”)

An exploration of Iceland’s most idiosyncratic museums and collections, The Museum of Whales You Will Never See takes readers across a country shaped by geological forces as powerful as the stories told and collected there. The following is a conversation between author Kendra Greene and WD contributor Katy Dycus.

Loretta Diane Walker is treasure in the Texas poetry community. She is the author of many books, including a full-length collection, Day Begins When Darkness Is in Full Bloom (Blue Light Press, 2021) and the topic of this review, her most recent chapbook, From the Cow’s Eye & Other Poems, which won the 2021 William D. Barney Memorial Chapbook Prize from The Fort Worth Poetry Society. The poems in the collection show off Walker’s poetic range; the speaker weaves stunning Texas landscapes and offers deft observations about love, grief, music, dreams, superheroes, and much more.