Anda Flamenco Company and School 2023/2024
A nonprofit fundraiser supporting
Springboard for the ArtsPlease help us raise 7500 K for our 2024 goal!
31 donors
raised $4,280
7,500 donor goal
Thanks to all our donors over the years!
Anda Flamenco’s mission is to expand the community's passion for, appreciation and understanding of, and participation in the art of flamenco dance, music and song. Our goal is to maintain the richness and integrity of traditional flamenco as it continues to evolve and change with the demands and realities of the 21st century.
Committed to sharing the exuberance of flamenco with diverse Minnesota audiences, Artistic Director Kristina de Sacramento, members of Anda Flamenco Company and their sister company, Las Zapatistas, perform and teach regularly in restaurants and cabarets, on street corners, and in hospital rooms and senior residences, as well as in formal theatrical settings.
Community Outreach - Kristina de Sacramento is seriously committed to community outreach. Assisted by students and company members, post-covid Kristina has begun working again with Breanna’s Gift, a non-profit which brings arts experiences to the kids hospitalized at the Minneapolis Children’s Hospital and Gillette Hospital. Kristina also worked for six years at Capistrant, the Parkinson’s arm of Bethesda, teaching the Mark Morris program, "Dance for PD." She received a scholarship from Artsage for a year-long study of how to further develop her teaching skills to incorporate a wider range of aging communities, and she has put this knowledge to use in many senior residences throughout the metro area.
Educational Outreach - "Poquito y Bueno," Kristina’s half-hour bi-monthly worldwide flamenco webcast, premiered in April 2009 on KFAI, Fresh Air Radio. When KFAI began web-only programming, they chose Poquito y Bueno as one of the first two webcasts to pioneer this new programming decision. Soon to be in her 15th year of production, Kristina still creates, hosts, and engineers the only English-language, educational flamenco music show on the internet.
Traditional Flamenco Training - Anda Flamenco School offers training in traditional, authentic flamenco to students ranging in age from pre-school through late adulthood.
We at Anda Flamenco thank you sincerely for your continued support of our company and school and our mission to continue to share the beauty and passion of flamenco with the people of Minnesota.
November 16th will be here soon, and that means that once again, it’s time for Minnesota’s annual Give to the Max day, hooray! Please visit our page https://www.givemn.org/story/Anda and donate what you can to help Anda Flamenco Company and School continue creating and producing work that enriches our company, our students, and the Minnesota community at large!
We must first acknowledge and sincerely thank you for your generous support of Anda on the 2022 Give to the Max day! Your contributions made it possible for us to maneuver through yet one more challenging post-pandemic year and still be able to maintain our amazing studio space - an asset to our greater dance community! And though we’re doing much better than last year, we’re sorry to say that we haven’t met last year’s goal, which was to be solvent by November 2023. But we are doing better than last year, and that’s an accomplishment to be proud of!
We’ve had a very busy and exciting year of performances! “Performances” had become a thing of the post-pandemic past for so many dancers until this year! This summer alone we presented 8 performances - almost as many as in 2020 - 2022 combined. We were asked to stage an afternoon of flamenco at the Lake Harriet Bandshell, invited to join Dances at the Lake for our ninth year and Greenway Glow for our eight year, and we orchestrated a fundraiser at the Phoenix Theater for Bitty Kitty Brigade, a neonatal kitten rescue ( https://bittykittybrigade.org/ ), along with numerous, more intimate performances ranging in locales from Hopkins to Marine on St. Croix.
But performances don’t pay our bills. (They barely pay the performers for their time onstage, not to mention the hours of rehearsal.) Their purpose is to bring the company together as a family, and to do what we’ve been training years to do - to magically transport our diverse audiences to through time and space to experience a different culture and a different way of life. We are so fortunate to have been able to do that once again this year!
As for as paying the rent - though our classes have not increased in size, we’ve been very lucky to find some wonderful dancers who’ve become permanent renters. They’ve really made a noticeable difference in the amount of our monthly shortfall! Now that we need less funds to cover each month’s rent, we’d like raise additional funds this year to increase the pay of our seriously underpaid and dedicated class guitarist, and to finally pay a small stipend to our artistic director/choreographer/teacher who hasn’t been paid in four years. These two have continued to support us during these last years when we’ve not been able to support them. So now we’d like to raise funds for them too, as well as for our rent this year.
We’re very hopeful that we can find new and creative ways to bolster the income of Anda Flamenco Company and School in 2024. But we know that we can’t make it without some help from you, our flamenco community. So we are humbly asking you to please make another donation to Anda Flamenco this year - no matter how small you think it may be! All of your contributions will go toward our ability to stay in our studio, to pay our staff, to augment our roster of classes and our number of students, and to provide new and exciting opportunities for Anda Flamenco to share the joy and vibrancy of flamenco with our friends, our families, and our community!
We all thank you so much for your for all your help! Kristina de Sacramento, Michael Ziegahn, Anda Flamenco Company, and the students of Anda Flamenco School