Amalia Rodrigues, Portugal's late beloved queen of fado is celebrated in AMARAMALIA/ ABANDONO, performed with profound poignancy by this brilliant company of 16 dancers based in Lisbon which is making its American debut at The Joyce Theater in New York (October 2004). Celebrated artistic Director Vasco Wellenkamp has created a revelatory work that captures the dramatic force of fado with vitality and theatricality, fluidity and energy, and above all purity and miraculous beauty.

"There was another standing ovation for Vasco Wellenkamp's latest take on the fado at the Auditorio Fernando Lopes Graca, Portugal"
Dance Europe Magazine, October 2004

"The choreographer Vasco Wellenkamp has perfectly captured the untethered yearning of the fado, Portugal's national song,
and channeled it into the explosive vigor of the dancers, who roused the audience."
Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times, Oct. 14, 2004

TOURING DATES, NOVEMBER 2005

Walt Whitman Theater/Brooklyn College, Brooklyn/NY: November 11 at 8PM

Performing Arts Center/SUNY Purchase, Purchase/NY: November 12 at 8PM

The Zeiterion Theater, New Bedford/MA: November 13 at 7PM