Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, ‘Searching For Goya’ (Long Beach & Malibu)

THURS, OCT 2, 2025 • 7:30-9:00 pm
Pepperdine University
Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts
24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90263

Malibu Info + TIX: https://arts.pepperdine.edu/events/2025-2026-season/noche-flamenca-25-26.htm

SAT, OCT 4, 2025 at 8-9:30pm
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
6200 E Atherton St., Long Beach, California 90815

Long Beach INFO + TICKETS!

“Internationally recognized as one of Spain’s most respected troupes, this is Flamenco in its pure essence.” —Boston Globe

The evening-length suite of 14 dances draws inspiration from the art and political vision of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. Noche Flamenca’s new work takes us on a journey through the Spanish artist’s graphic imagination and his response to the political turmoil and injustices of his time. Choreographed by Artistic Director Martín Santangelo and Bessie Award-winning Principal Dancer Soledad Barrio, Searching for Goya is flamenco at its most transformative. This masterful ensemble of dancers, singers, and musicians fuse theatricality with raw emotion, pushing flamenco’s boundaries in a performance as striking as Goya’s art.

Developed in part from scholarship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Searching for Goya uses flamenco, live music, vocals, lighting, and design to explore Goya’s depictions of humanity, privilege, and revolt. “Goya…became increasingly revolted by unearned privilege. Wanting freedom and rights for all, he began to use his art as an act of witnessing, as a lie in the service of truth,” Santangelo notes.

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