Interested in booking one of our performing companies for an event? Or would you like to host
an event at our studios? GNO, Showers & BDay Parties with a belly dance lesson, maybe??? For more information, please
call 713-899-3771
Instructors Maria Del Espadin, Tempestad, Soraya are also available for workshops, seminars & lecture/demonstrations.
Need a Flamenco or Latin Guitarist for your next event? Call Guille - www.guillermoserpas.com
Saludos & Marhaba from Del Espadin Flamenco & Spanish Dance Academy & Soraya's School of Belly
Dance!
Please take your time reading through our newsletter highlighting some past events & what
we've got planned for the future. Feel free to contact us with any questions or requests for more info.
Special
thanks to all our students & their families, & to all the supporters of Del Espadin Flamenco & Soraya's School
of Belly Dance. Without you we would not have the opportunity to continue preserving Flamenco Puro & the art of
Belly Dance here in Houston.
Wishing everyone peace and happiness for the holidays! Muchisimas gracias
& Shokran!
Maria Del Espadin, Tempestad & Soraya Del Espadin Flamenco & Spanish Dance Academy Soraya's School of Belly Dance
Gift certificates available for flamenco or belly dance lessons AND for our dancewear boutique, La Zambra!
To purchase online, please click here. May also be purchased at La Zambra located inside the Del Espadin & Soraya studios (3939 Hillcroft, Suite 160,
Houston, Texas 77057).
CUADRO LA TEMPESTAD
AT CAFE BYBLOS DEC 16th & NEW YEAR'S EVE!
Come join in the holiday festivities at this beautiful restaurant! Cuadro La Tempestad will
be performing at Cafe Byblos Restaurant on Wednesday, December 16th. Show begins at 8:30pm.
Cafe Byblos Restaurant
6134 Richmond Avenue
Houston, Texas 77057
$6.00 Cover
Flamenco
night Special - $5.00 Margaritas
To make a reservation, please call (713) 899 3771.
Cuadro
La Tempestad will also be a part of Cafe Byblos' NEW YEAR'S EVE Celebration. They will perform at 9:30pm. Tickets
begin at $100 per person & include appetizer, entree, dessert, champagne toast & party favors.
Photo of Cuadro La Tempestad by Lionlight Images.
COMING JANUARY 2010
- MONTHLY SEVILLANA NIGHT! 1ST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH!
You asked for it! We listened! Beginning January 6th, 2010, the first Wednesday of every month will
be Sevillanas Night at Cafe Byblos.
Sevillana Night
Cafe Byblos Restaurant
6134
Richmond Ave.
Houston, Texas 77057
8-11pm; Sevillana lesson at 9pm
$3 Cover
Come dance Sevillanas all night long! Don't know how to dance Sevillana??? That's ok! Lesson at 9pm.
Large wooden dance floor...plenty of good food & wine! Come dressed in costume if you like! ALSO, short performance
by Solo Sevillanas!
First Wednesday of every month, beginning January 6, 2010!
Photos by Scott Corron
THANKS FOR COMING
OUT TO OUR GYPSY REVELS HOLIDAY PARTY!
On December 13, 2009, Del Espadin Flamenco & Soraya's School of Belly Dance hosted its annual holiday
party - the Gypsy Revels! Everyone came dressed in costume ready for singing, dancing, & eating great Mediterranean
food catered by Fadi's. Thanks so much for joining us for the hoilday festivities & we look forward to next year's
party!
Upcoming Performances
Del Espadin Flamenco & Soraya's Belly Dance is the home of four separate performing companies:
Cuadro La Tempestad (authentic gypsy-style Flamenco performing company) (Photo by Lionlight Images)
Solo Sevillanas
(Regional Spanish Dance performing company)
Del Espadin Baile Espanol (Classical Spanish Dance & Flamenco Estilizado
performing company)
The performing companies have many shows coming up in the next few months.
Here are some of the highlights (full performance calendar with show details can be found at www.flamencospirit.com & www.bellydanceintexas.com):
EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT - SORAYA & LA ZAMBRA AT CAFE BYBLOS!
Show begins at 9:30pm
Byblos
Belly Dance Night Special - $5 Margaritas
DECEMBER 16, 2009 - FLAMENCO AT CAFE BYBLOS CUADRO LA TEMPESTAD Cafe Byblos Restaurant 6134 Richmond Ave. Houston, Texas 77057 Cover $6.00 Cafe
Byblos FLAMENCO NIGHT SPECIAL - $5.00 Margaritas To make a reservation, please call 713 899 3771
DECEMBER
17, 2009 - SORAYA & LA ZAMBRA BELLY DANCE AT 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS PARTY Mercer Lounge 3302 Mercer 77027 $10 Admission 11pm For more information, please click here!
DECEMBER 31, 2009 - CUADRO LA TEMPESTAD FLAMENCO & SORAYA CAFE BYBLOS RESTAURANT NEW
YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION Festivities begin at 9:30pm Flamenco performance by Cuadro La Tempestad Belly Dance
performance by Soraya Tickets begin at $100 per person & includes appetizer, entree, dessert, champagne toast, &
party favors
JANUARY 20, 2009 - FLAMENCO AT CAFE BYBLOS CUADRO LA TEMPESTAD Cafe Byblos
Restaurant 6134 Richmond Ave. Houston, Texas 77057 Cover $6.00 Cafe Byblos FLAMENCO NIGHT SPECIAL - $5.00
Margaritas To make a reservation, please call 713 899 3771
Photo & design of La Zambra Belly Dance by Bhavin & Lionlight Images
STUDY FLAMENCO PURO IN SPAIN!
Del
Espadin Flamenco is proud to announce its new Study Flamenco Puro in Spain program in collaboration with the artists of Arte
y Pureza of Sevilla, Spain.
In March of 2010, registered students of DEF&SDA will have the opportunity to travel
to Andalucia, Spain to study Flamenco with world-renowned artists of the authentic gypsy style of Flamenco.
Weekly sessions offered. Travel booking coordinated by DEF&SDA.
Carrying on a generations-old family tradition, Maria Del Espadín and her daughter, Tempestad, bring
decades of teaching & performing experience to their students.
Regardless of the constant commercialization
and modernization of Flamenco, Mama Flamenca and La Hija Flamenca (as affectionately called by their many students) strive
to preserve the authenticity of Flamenco and to present Flamenco to the public as the gypsies of Andalucia intended Flamenco
to be. To learn true Flamenco...not only as the music & dance that it is, but also as a way of life...this Flamenco
family invites you to come observe a class or try one out at no expense upon registering with the Academy. We invite you to
experience first-hand what it is that sets Del Espadín Flamenco & Spanish Dance Academy apart from all others!
All new registrants can try out their first Flamenco class for free. Please visit www.flamencohouston.com & print the coupon from the home page to present at time the class is taken. Coupon applies to only first Flamenco
or Belly Dance class. All other classes and/or workshops are excluded from this promotion.
Photo of Maria
Del Espadin & Tempestad by Bhavin.
Thank you for your time & support promoting education of Flamenco Puro & Belly Dance
in the Houston community!
Sincerely,
Del Espadin Flamenco & Spanish Dance
Academy, Inc. & Soraya's School of Belly Dance
FREE CLASS
All new registrants can try out their first Flamenco or Belly Dance class for free. Please
visit www.flamencohouston.com or www.bellydanceintexas.com & print the coupon from the home page to present at time the class is taken. Coupon applies to only first Flamenco or
Belly Dance class. All other classes and/or workshops are excluded from this promotion.
You asked for it! We listened! Beginning January 2010, the first Wednesday of every month will be Sevillana Night
at Cafe Byblos. Sevillanas all night...large dance floor...have dinner & wine if you like, but come ready to dance!
For details, please click here!
A short documentary on our school. Hope you like it!
Special thanks to all the students that made this film possible! & special thanks to Eya & Corrinne. Corrinne - you
are an amazing videographer! Thank you so much! Del Espadin Flamenco & Soraya's School of Belly Dance
Saludos
a Todos!
Message from Tempestad:
First & foremost, I would like to thank all who supported
me in my return to the tablao since my car wreck last December. It was wonderful to see so many familiar faces and to
welcome new ones to the Houston Flamenco family. I will forever be grateful to all those who stuck by me through this
very trying & difficult time in my life. Your support, loyalty & encouragement for me to get back on my feet
meant the world to me!
Special thanks to my family...most importantly, Mama Flamenca!, because without Mama
none of this would be possible for not only me, but for so many of us who adore flamenco!...to all of our AMAZING students...it
makes me so proud to see you LIVE flamenco...to Lucia & Val for being our special guests at such a significant event,
& to all our wonderful aficionados & friends!
NOW on to new things!!!
Cuadro La Tempestad will
be back at Cafe Byblos on Wednesday, July 29, 2009! We are very excited to be introducing two new flamenco artists to
Houston. Guillermo Serpas, guitarrista, will be joining the Cuadro, & Marisol Monasterio will be making her cante
debut!
Please join us at Cafe Byblos on July 29th to welcome Guillermo & Marisol to the tablao!
Muchisimas gracias y abrazos a todos! Tempestad www.flamencospirit.com www.flamencohouston.com
Del
Espadin Flamenco & Spanish Dance Academy, Inc. 3939 Hillcroft, Suite 160 Houston, Texas 77057 713 977 3900
Cuadro La Tempestad
Wednesday, July 29th, at Cafe Byblos Restaurant
Introducing
Guillermo Serpas, guitarrista, & Marisol Monasterio in her cante debut!
Cafe Byblos Restaurant
July 29, 2009 8pm 6134 Richmond Houston, Texas 77057 Cover $6.00 For reservations,
please call 832 251 0505 For more event info, please call 713 899 3771
