| I used to be flamenca but I got it out of my system, as far as performing goes. I started out as a dancer. The more I learned about this amazing art form, I began to love the singing most of all. I studied this obscure and complicated music on my own and with the help of some great musicians from throughout the USA and Spain. |
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My former life inFlamenco
Media and industry quotes "Amazing" - The Oregonian "Juliet Cardinal sings flamenco with a unique, razor's edge balance; clearly expressing the control born from years of formal voice training, but with an unpredictable magic springing from an intense natural passion" -Desert Spirit Films "Cardinal really provides a knockout with her proud, swirling dance numbers and her "cante hondo" or "deep-song" style of complex flamenco vocals" - The Oregonian "Juliet's impeccable sense of rhythm, broad range of vocal styles, and excellent teaching skills are only surpassed by the passion for her art" - -Laurena Marrone "Cardinal strips the vocal gears" -Willamette Weekly |
| Oregonian Review: Dance review Show of flamenco song, movement is a knockout Tuesday, November 22, 2005 HOLLY JOHNSON For anyone enamored of flamenco music in its purest form, Sowelu Theatre's exciting performance "An Evening of Flamenco and Ballads" is a must-see. For an hour, guitarist Stan Olmsted, actor/singer Joaquin Lopez and the amazing flamenco vocalist Juliet Cardinal take us in spirit to a Gypsy cafe in Seville, where all that's needed to create Iberian magic is a table, some candles, a couple of chairs, a bare floor, a guitarist and a singer or two. As part of Sowelu's mixed program of dance, music and theater, this intimate, highly concentrated evening of Spanish soul music, which also includes poetry by Pablo Neruda, features traditional sorrowful and passionate song styles such as the alborea and the solea, plus stunning selections by Federico Garcia Lorca. Olmsted is a distinguished guitarist who has studied with various flamenco masters in Granada, and trained formally at the Nerudy Music Academy in Prague. Lopez is a versatile actor, musician and dancer who with Olmsted founded the flamenco rumba group Jinete. But it's Cardinal who really provides a knockout with her proud, swirling dance numbers and her "cante hondo" or "deep-song" style of complex flamenco vocals, often performed improvisationally. Cardinal creates an ascending torrent of guttural, vibrating notes, for which she sits ramrod straight, legs slightly apart, hands on knees, pushing out the notes from deep in her solar plexus. Strong stuff. |
| Flamenco Performance Formal and informal performances all around Portland First Thursday flamenco shows at Club Noche An Evening of Flamenco and Ballads, Sowelu Theater, Nov-Dec 2005 and Nov-Dec of 2006 Regular singing and dancing soloist in the Solo Flamenco Dance Cuadro Soloist with The Lorca Project 2004-2005 Soloist in Flamenco Vivo, a showcase of west coast flamenco’s finest, at the Aladdin Theater, April 2004 Soloist for the Solo Flamenco Center for Flamenco Arts, Portland OR, in classes and for student recitals Soloist with Flamencello, 2003 |
| Professional Collaborations Laurena Marrone Stan Olmsted Mark Ferguson James Edwards Jaime del Rio Joaquin Lopez Gabe Leavitt Toshi Onizuka Danny Romero Mark Taylor Greg Wolfe |
Photography
Many of the
photographs on this
site are by Monique
Monet, a talented
dancer, filmmaker,
writer, painter and
photographer.
Thank you Monique!
Many of the
photographs on this
site are by Monique
Monet, a talented
dancer, filmmaker,
writer, painter and
photographer.
Thank you Monique!
