About Flamenco Biënnale Nederland
The Flamenco Biënnale Nederland is an international performing arts festival built around one of Europe’s oldest art forms, flamenco. Since 2006, it has been showcasing the latest developments in the genre and offering a wide range of its modern expressions, with concerts and performances in which tradition enters into exciting alliances and cross-pollinations with contemporary dance and music, jazz, classical, baroque and oriental music.
The festival presents flamenco – in particular through its own creations and (co-)productions – as a wonderful hybrid, a modern melting pot, the way it once started, as an art form with its feet firmly in the present time. With plenty of pleasure and ambition, FBN’s artists step across and beyond the boundaries of the genre. It brings cutting-edge flamenco, rhythms that move, stir and unsettle, by innovative, visionary makers, major stars and young, up-and-coming talents. This has made FBN ‘a flamenco playground which is unique in the world, a place where the art is examined, stretched and turned inside out’ (Volkskrant).
