Miguel Ángel Heredia

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HEREDIA 

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DATE & TIME

Thurs. June 25TH, 6:00pm

 

LOCATION

Rodey Theatre, UNM

About

HEREDIA

“I have spent my life dancing to the cante, performing before the world, but singing only in private. Singing alone, where no one could see me, where no one could hear me.”

-Miguel Ángel Heredia

Now, arriving at a place of maturity, Miguel Ángel Heredia sets fear aside and steps before the audience not only as a dancer, but as a singer, giving voice to a truth that has lived inside him since birth. HEREDIA is an act of revelation: an artist known for the power of his movement finally letting his voice be heard.

After a career spent dancing to cante on primary stages, Miguel Ángel Heredia brings the singing he kept for private rooms into public view. HEREDIA is structured as a recital that alternates cante delivered with the stillness of a seated singer and moments when the body takes over—standing, marking, and dancing the line he has just sung.

PHOTO : COURTESY THE ARTIST


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Lo que pretende hacer este artista con espectáculo es algo sorprendente, insólito e inédito. (What this artist sets out to do with this performance is something surprising, extraordinary, and unprecedented.)

Juan Vergillos

Diario de Sevilla

Cast & Credits

Miguel Ángel Heredia
Dance, Cante
Francisco Vinuesa
Guitar
Javier Teruel
Percussion
Salomé Ramírez
Coros & palmas
Anabel Rivera
coros & palmas
María Reyes
Coros & palmas
Antonio Valiente
Lights
Ángel Olalla
sound
 

Photo: Courtesy the artist

About

Miguel Ángel Heredia

Born in Jerez de la Frontera (1985), Miguel Ángel Heredia has built a career at the intersection of baile and cante, grounded in the Jerez school and shaped by study with maestros including Manuela Carpio, Chiqui de Jerez, and Adela Campallo. His professional beginnings were in the emblematic tablao El Lagá de Tío Parrilla under Juan Parrilla, with whom he made his first international tour (Italy, 1999). That same year he joined Manuel Morao and Gitanos de Jerez, before relocating to Seville in 2003 to work in leading tablaos, including Los Gallos and El Arenal.

Heredia’s trajectory includes festival appearances and touring across Europe and beyond; since 2008 he has returned regularly to Japan for teaching and performance engagements. In 2017 he received the Premio Joven of the Festival de Jerez, recognition that coincides with his emergence as a prominent contemporary performer. He is currently a member of Manuel Liñán’s company, appearing in the touring productions ¡Viva!  and  Muerta de amor . Alongside his company work, Heredia develops artist-led projects that foreground his dual practice—including his recital HEREDIA, where he brings the voice, he long reserved for private settings into the public sphere and places cante and baile in direct dialogue.

Adela Campallo

Photo: Courtesy the artist

Study with

Miguel Ángel Heredia

during festival flamenco 39