Shows by Award winning Marina Tamayo Flamenco tailored for bespoke events.
An Australian Based Spanish Dance Artist Agency
Marina Tamayo celebrates an illustrious career of performance, teaching, producing and choreographing. Tamayos skills are embedded in a wealth of knowledge, international and national experience, strengthened with a professional 5 star reputation and an impressive long term A-list celebrity clientele database. Tamayo is the founder of Australia’s first premiere Spanish and Flamenco Dance Agency, Flamenco Australia (c. 1998) . It is dedicated to promoting and preserving her cultural storytelling.
Flamenco Australia works alongside Australian and international industry leaders in dance, film, television, video, theatre, fashion runway, promotional and marketing campaigns, award winning hospitality venues, and event planners.
Tamayo brings Flamenco and Spanish Dance Theatre excitement, to your event or project. The services include commercial, artistic explorative, contemporary and traditional formats.
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Marina Tamayo as invited guest by Rossy d Palma y Maria Pages for INTERNATIONAL DANCE DAY 2021 – DIA INTERNACIONAL DE LA DANZA 2021 by Maria Pages, Spain. El Centro Coreográfico María Pages de Fuenlabrada, por segundo año consecutivo ha creado un vídeo para conmemorar el Dia Internacional de la Danza.
Marina Tamayo
Director
Marina Tamayo Flamenco is a Sydney based artist. She is a standing committee advisory member on AUSDANCE NSW Board, a registered and accredited teacher with the New South Wales Education Department, a trained Project Manager, composer and qualified Production Engineer.
As a dance teacher, Marina Tamayo has a masters knowledge for Spanish cultural choreography and offers authenticity consultation services. In practise, she draws on various strategies of teaching including scaffolding and differentiation, for inclusive teaching. With her Bachelor of Education, she offers regular teaching services to performing arts schools, academic institutions and communities.
As a choreographer, Marina Tamayo is a Nationally recognised professional. She has dedicated over 38 years, producing dance works for Australian theatre, cabaret, fashion, TV, video and film. Since 1982, as a former ballet/Spanish dance student, Tamayo began developing works for Eisteddfods, regional ballet and ballroom centres, calisthenics schools, fitness centres and professional dance groups.
Her unique blend between Flamenco, ballet and Spanish dance has become signatory, resulting in building an impressive A list cliente database and expanded market for traditionally grounded contemporary Spanish shows and training. Tamayo has appeared as a performer and choreographer on Channel 10, 9, 7, ABC, Disney kids, SKY and SBS programs, as well as music videos, documentaries, short and international feature film.
“Tamayo’s solos are wild and expressive; soft arms are a foil for the complexity of her lower body” Lesley Graham, The Mercury, 2017.
As a performer, Tamayo is a solo artist for Spanish and Flamenco Dance. Tamayo has performed globally and featured in contemporary dance festivals, cultural events, fashion events, VIP Functions, marketing campaigns, commercial cabaret RSL shows , independent and commercial television, video pop, international and local film, celebrity and bespoke celebrity events.
Marina Tamayo works with Miguel Maestre , having performed regularly in his restaurants El Toro Loco, Apertif and Cafe Del Mar and featured in some of his early cook books. Miguel calls for corporate and festival style shows and Tamayo designs shows for his cooking and lifestyle events, Cake and Bake Festival Sydney 2018, 2019, 2022, Miguel Enterprises Hunter Valley Resort for Woolworths executive team week and appeared on his TV show, The Living Room Channel 10.
After two years of Covid, Tamayo returned to the artistic stage as a soloist. Since then, she has performed at the Adelaide International Film Festival for the Australian premiere of Carmen by Benjamin Millepead and Goalpost Pictures, invited to perform at Nathalie Portmans private birthday, and soloist at The National Gallery of Victoria, for the Centurian Picasso curators dinner, Winter series, July 2022.
History on Flamenco Australia
In 1998, Tamayo founded Flamenco Australia. The purpose was to create opportunities for both artists and audiences, making Spanish arts accessible and relevant, in the Australian community.
As a self funded venture, Tamayo took to rural and past the black stump locations, offering communities workshops, and shows. One may say the work was a pioneering venture for the Spanish Arts. The demand for her services grew exponentially, and over a period of fifteen years her work covered interstate, and internationally. Artists direct from Spain were sponsored to assist in delivering workshops and performances.
After twenty eight years in Sydney, Tamayo expanded audience engagement into international markets. This was achieved by bringing Spanish artists to perform, teach and collaborate. Tamayo focussed on creating new audiences, either as participants or observers through education, delivered in classes and performances.
In 2018, Tamayo was formally recognised by the Australian Dance Council for her contributions to the Australian Arts industry. She was nominated in the The Australian Dance Awards 2018, for her ‘Service to Dance’.
In 2019, Tamayo was nominated by the Australia Dance Council, for her choreographic Spanish contemporary work EMERALD. The nomination was for the category ‘Outstanding Achievement in Choreography’.
Recent contributions, 2021/2022:
Tamayo is passionate about creating holistic curriculum. Her teaching philosophy holds the firm belief that it is critical for contemporary Australian society to provide accessible and equitable opportunities to immerse, broaden and develop an appreciation of cultural dance, customs and practise.
In 2021, Tamayo worked with Classical Ballet 121, fulltime classical ballet academy, with Gilly Reevie. She was asked to write and prepare the exam curriculum for the Spanish and Flamenco dance studies in the Australian Teachers of Dancing full time Certificate 4 and Advanced Diploma in Elite Performance course, 2021.
Tamayo has designed and delivered school incursions for a period of 18 years. These incursions are aligned to cultural dance curriculum for K to HSC levels (NESA Syllabus). In addition, Tamayo has contributed to various academic PhD papers on Flamenco and duende. These contributions are formal research papers, sharing her knowledge and experience in Flamenco to the academia in Australia.
The recent research includes, The University of Sydney Ms Lillian Shaddick and Dr Amanda Card at Discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies; Bond University, Leisurely seeking duende; Making meaning through the embodied experience of flamenco dance; Grant Sean Hawkes, University of Sydney; Spanish : What is Flamenco?; ABC Radio Melbourne with Warwick Long, Flamenco and its Roots, ABC Hobart, Flamenco and Duende.
Projects 2021/2022
During COVID (2019 – 2021), Tamayo engaged in working with former Artistic Director of The American Ballet and current AD for Los Angeles Dance Project Benjamin Millepead. Benjamin Millepied is a choreographer, filmmaker, and former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet and former Artistic Director of Paris Ballet Opera.
Review 7/9/2022 Jazz Tangcay: for VARIETY U.S Edition
“Millepied’s movie, is a complete re-imagining, debuting Sept. 11 at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival released by Sony Pictures Classics, begins in Mexico with a jaw-dropping flamenco number that showcases Marina Tamayo as Carmen’s mother on the grounds of the family’s house. “
Link to aritcle: https://variety.com/2022/artisans/news/filmmaker-benjamin-millepied-composer-nicholas-britell-carmen-movie-2022-music-dance-1235363007/
Millepied casted Tamayo as the mother of Carmen. Her roles are Flamenco Dance choreographer and as a soloist performer as the mother of Carmen, Zilah on his latest project, first feature film ‘ Carmen’. It was released worldwide in 2022 by Sony Picture. Classics. IMdB profile Marina Tamayo (II)
” The scene opens with a jaw-dropping flamenco number that showcases Marina Tamayo ” Variety, Jazz Tangcay, 2022, Toronto International Film Festival.
Directed By: Benjamin Millepied Original Score By: Nicholas Britell Written by: Alexander Dinelaris and Loïc Barrère & Benjamin Millepied Starring: Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal, Rossy de Palma, THE DOC #Carmen #TeaserTrailer #SonyClassics #PaulMescal #MelissaBarrera
See Full trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGruL2Gj-mg
Las Peinetas and Marina Tamayo Photo by Sebastián Estrada, WoW Moments Production, 2022.
Las Peinetas Spanish Dance Theatre – Fusion of Flamenco and Ballet.
Tamayo’s passion continues to resobate through the community. Self funded she has formed the Flamenco Ballet performance group called ‘Las Peinetas’. The group is made up of recent fulltime ballet graduates who have studied at prestigious European Ballet schools, Sydney Dance Pre professional and with Tamayo, at their former ballet academies.
The best way to describe Las Peinetas, is they perform Flamenco Ballet. This is a true unique bend between both genres, and it is the first group of its kind in Australia. Currently, the group are booked weekly and perform at various bespoke locations across NSW. The focus of the group is, to present traditional works in a contemporary context whilst maintaining the authenticity of Andalusian folklore, storytelling.
Marina Tamayo’s Las Peinetas . Photo by Sebastian Estrada of Wow Moment Productions. 2022, at Alegrias Spanish Tapas every Friday.
Tamayo’s further education studies include Ballet in ADAP, RAD and Cecchetti methods, Bachelor of Education, Curtin University, Classical Pianoforte Music Composition and Theory at AMEB The Conservatorium of Music, Certificate in Business Analysis, Project Management, Diploma in Audio Engineering and has Postgraduate studies in Production Sound Engineering.
During the week, Marina Tamayo holds an NSW Primary school teaching position specializing in performing arts – NSW Dance Curriculum for stages K – 6, at an EAL/D school in Chatswood (Chatswood Public School).
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