​Currently on a lighting visit to the UK, Madrid-based dancer Natalia García-Huidobro makes her debut at The Flamenco Mix, along with her special guest, Xxxxxxxx, also from Madrid. 

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Natalia's show, De los peines (From the combs), pays homage to women in flamenco, taking inspiration from dancers such as Lola Flores, Dolores Vargas ('La Terremoto'), and Pastora Pavón ('La Niña de los Peines').

 

You will be taken on a journey to the world of cabarets, café cantantes and a whole era of exhibitionism, observing it from a contemporary aspect.

 

Born in 1975 in Santiago, Chile, to a family with a strong theatrical tradition, Natalia first danced professionally in Mexico between 1992 and 1997, where she joined the contemporary dance company En Cruz. In 1998 she moved to Spain to study flamenco; during this period she danced in Miguel Canias’ flamenco company in El Quejio del Silencio.​

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Returning to Chile in 2000, Natalia founded and directed the flamenco company Palo Santo, with whom she created two shows of enormous cultural importance for the Chilean music and dance scene. Natalia performed her first show, A Ras de Tierra (At ground level), in theatres and dance festivals across her home country before embarking on a tour of Mexico.

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The success of this work led Palo Santo to win an important award from the Chilean government’s Foundation for the Development of Arts and Culture. With this funding, Natalia and Palo created a new piece: Memorias del Viento (Memories

of the Wind) — a show that toured Chile for an entire year with enormous success.

 

​In 2003, a new period in Natalia's career began. The Chilean government awarded her a scholarship to study at the flamenco dance academy Amor de Dios in Spain. Since then, she has been based in Madrid, where she has developed her professional dancing and teaching career. She performs regularly in tablaos in Madrid. 

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Natalia's performing-teaching career has expanded throughout Europe: working as an artistic director and choreographer for the experimental dance center LE SUK in Taranto, Italy; teaching in dance schools in London, Japan, and the Czech Republic; and touring Greece with Juan Antonio de los Reyes's dance company.

 

​​Among her most recent projects, Natalia has been a leading dancer in the Danish group Arte Flamenco and has collaborated as a dancer and co-director with Manolo Punto in Paris for the critically acclaimed work Bailando sobre la lluvia (Dancing in the rain)

 

Natalia's activities in England include frequent collaborations with the baroque-fusion music group Eclipse and the creation of the show Desde el Silencio (From the Silence) with the dance company La Tipica, for whom she is the choreographer and artistic director.

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Natalia García-Huidobro (Dance) Xxxxxx (Xxxxx) Adrian Sola (Guitar) Monica García (Voice)​