Flamenco Festival London continues this week with an incredible selection of flamenco’s finest contemporary artists. The young, barrier-breaking flamenco dancer, Rocío Molina presents her gravity defying Caida del Cielo – Fallen from Heaven, where she uses her  boundless technical facility and deep expressivity to explore the outer world and inner world and make sense of it.

 Rocío Molina presents Fallen from Heaven on Tuesday 9 July 2019, 7.30pm. Tickets

Rocío Molina gave the UK première of Caída del Cielo (Fallen from Heaven) at the Barbican, London in October 2017 as part of the Dance Umbrella Festival – the annual London International Dance Festival. Review

Flamenco Festival London 2019 presents:

Flamenco meets Jazz: Jesús Carmona (guest flamenco dancer) with Tim Ries (saxophone), Adam Ben Ezra (double bass), David Peña Dorantes (flamenco piano) and Javi Ruibal (percussion) on Wednesday 10 July 2019, 7.30pm tickets

The flamenco dancer and choreography Olga Pericet, who was awarded the Spanish National Dance Prize in 2018, in the Interpretation category for “her ability to bring together the different disciplines of Spanish dance, updating them in an interpretive language with her own stamp”, presents her: The Thorn That Wanted to be a Flower, or The Flower That Dreamed of Being a Dancer with music by Antonia Jiménez and Pino Losada on Thursday 11 July 2019 at 7.30pm Tickets

The flamenco guitarist David Carmona presents Un sueño de locura  from his first solo album of the same name Sueño de Locura (2017), which features Estrella Morente and Tino di Geraldo. He worked on this recording for years with his mentor, the legendary flamenco guitarist Manolo Sanlúcar, who says: “He is my adopted son, my only heir, the only reference for the future of the guitar.” David Carmona: Un sueño de locura on Friday 12 July 2019 at 6pm. Tickets

The young flamenco singer and guitarist Kiki Morente – the son of legendary singer Enrique Morente and dancer Aurora Carbonell and brother of the singers Estrella Morente and Soleá Morente – presents Albayzín on Friday 12 July 2019 at 8.30pm. Tickets

Gala Flamenca features the flamenco dancers Mercedes Ruiz, Eduardo Guerrero and María Moreno with guest singer María Terremoto  Friday 12 July and Saturday 13 July 2019 at 7.30pm. Tickets

Flamenco Festival London 2019 finishes on a high point with the choreographer, director and multi-award winning dancer Patricia Guerrero’s  Catedral on Sunday 14 July 2019 at 7.30pm. Tickets

Flamenco Festival London 2019 with Director Miguel Marín, is at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Rosebery Ave, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 4TN. Tel. 020 7863 8000, sadlerswells.com

© Thérèse Wassily Saba 2019