Speaker Alice Blumenfeld

2008 Presidential Scholar in the Arts|

Fulbright Scholar to Spain 2012

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Alice Blumenfeld's powerful performance onstage, and her scholarly work offstage, make her a preeminent force in the American flamenco dance scene. According to Thinking Dance: "[Blumenfeld has] a fierce presence (her movements seem to arise from several feet beneath the ground) ..."

Based in New York City, Alice Blumenfeld's powerful performances onstage, and her scholarly work offstage, make her a preeminent force in the American flamenco dance scene. Soon to hold an MFA in dance from Hollins University's low residency program (will graduate in 2017), she continues to push her artistic development forward. 

 

Blumenfeld currently tours with Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, along with creating her own work, featured most recently at The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts’ Millennium Stage (June 2014)

She has performed: Nélida Tirado's fiercely feminine Tomaaa!, Rosario Toledo's avant garde Cómplices, Manuela Ríos' traditional Andalusian choreographies, and with Antonio Granjero's crisp & clean company EntreFlamenco, dancing at venues ranging from tablaos in Spain to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and Baryshnikov Performing Arts Center in New York, and at festivals such as Festival Flamenco Internacional in Albuquerque, NM and the Philadelphia Flamenco Festival.

In 2012, she received a Fulbright Scholarship, studying under the tutelage of Andrés Marín, Manuela Ríos, Rosario Toledo, Adela Campallo, Antonio Canales, Farruquito, Yolanda Heredia, Belen Maya, and others in Sevilla, Spain. To read about her experiences with the Fulbright, you can read her blog, Alice's Adventures in Spain.  

              

Upon returning to the U.S in 2013, Blumenfeld gave the Selma Jeanne Cohen endowed dance lecture, “Beyond Stereotypes: Unraveling Flamenco Dance from Its Historical and Cultural Threads.” She has received several grants for her research in flamenco, including NYU’s undergraduate Comparative Thesis Award for “‘Paseo por el amor y la muerte’: Fernando Romero’s search for purity in flamenco by journeying through Dante’s Inferno.” She earned her BA in comparative literature at NYU, graduating summa cum laude. 

 

 

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