Palladium Project

SPAIN MEETS LATIN AMERICA

The Palladium Project shares a life and love of music and cultural blending through the integration of Latin American music and dance into the Gypsy, Judaic, and Moorish-Spanish art form of flamenco. The Palladium is a musical academy/concert hall/movie theatre/nightclub built in New York City in 1927, which subsequently became a highly prestigious and desirable performance venue primarily because of the amazing sound developed by Richard Long.

The strong reference to the Palladium in Jesús Muñoz Flamenco’s current work exists because it was places like this that fostered creation and re-invention through the people who studied and performed in them. The Palladium Project is precisely this: co-composers, symphonic conductor, and flamenco artists, from Spain, France, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and the U.S., meeting to create a fully integrated flamenco performance focusing on ida y vuelta forms and returning to Flamenco, Flamenco.

Innovation originates with a profound understanding of, and enduring respect for, tradition. This is the first responsibility of cultural artists, and the vision that has inspired the creation of the Palladium Project.