(upbeat music) - Flamenco del Lago is a nonprofit organization that teaches and performs flamenco throughout Salt Lake City and Utah.

Artistic director instructor, Katie Sheen-Abbott is here with more information about an upcoming performance.

Hi, Katie, welcome.

- Thank you for having me.

- Oh, so flamenco encompasses a lot more traditions than most people realize.

- Right, right.

There's a neighborhood in Seville called Triana, where there was just a lot of cultural mixing happening for hundreds of years.

North Africans mixing with the Jewish community and mixing with the Christian community.

And out of that we get flamenco.

- And you're going to provide a fascinating concert coming up in the Regent Black Box Theater.

Can't get that word out.

Okay, so tell us about the concert.

- Yeah, we're gonna be performing traditional flamenco.

We called it Suben y Bajan, which means they go up and they go down, because we're exploring a range of styles and emotions.

So we go from very tragic and soulful flamenco to a lot more lively and happy flamenco.

So we explore that range.

- All right, and they're, what, eight different styles that you're going to be covering?

- Yes, eight different styles, yeah.

There are more like 30 total.

So there's many, but we're narrowing our show to eight.

- Down to eight, yeah.

And some of them I think are very interesting.

You've got some from the old Jewish quarter and some about minors and-- - [Katie] Yes, exactly.

- Yeah.

- There's a style called the peteneras that for a long time they believed was cursed, and that's from the Jewish quarter.

So a lot of people didn't dance it because they believed it was cursed.

But now we've sort of moved away from that and people have started dancing it again.

- All right, so we'll get to see it.

- Yeah, and you yourself studied in Seville.

- I did, I studied in Seville for a year.

Yeah, it was an amazing experience.

Very intense, learned a lot, but it was great.

- Yeah, well, I'm looking forward to this concert.

Really interesting.

Thank you so much for being here.

- Yeah, thanks for having me.

- And if you would like to know more about that upcoming concert, Flamenco del Lago, It is titled Flamenco de Verano: Suben y Bajan.

It's June 30th at 7:30 at the Regent Street Black Box.

Go to saltlakecountyarts.org/events.

That's saltlakecountyarts.org/events.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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