| What: Flamenco Íntimo – live flamenco dance and music Presented by: Tierra Flamenca Director: Ché Adams Featuring: Tierra Flamenca Dance Company and renowned flamenco guitarist Bienyameen Camroodien When: December 1-5, 2026 (Tuesday to Saturday) at 8.15pm, as well as matinee on the Saturday at 3pm Where: Baxter Studio, Cape Town Tickets: R180-R200 Bookings: Webtickets Direct booking link: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1600580767 |
Exciting news is that Flamenco Íntimo, “an intimate performance of live flamenco dance and music”, will be presented by Tierra Flamenca at the Baxter Theatre Studio from December 1-5, 2026. The director is Ché Adams and she muses that this is flamenco, stripped back to its essence. She says: “This powerful production celebrates the raw emotion, uncompromising rhythm and deep expression at the heart of authentic flamenco.”
The performers include some of South Africa’s leading flamenco artists, including renowned flamenco guitarist Bienyameen Camroodien. Adams explains about the show: “Flamenco Íntimo explores the depth and versatility of flamenco styles. With every step, note and breath shared up close, audiences are invited into a visceral experience where passion, vulnerability and artistry converge in their purest form.”
Ché 34, grew up in a dance infused home. Her mother, Carlyn Adams is a Spanish and Flamenco dancer. “My mom danced all her life – ballet and Spanish dance. She took a 20 year break to have kids and then we started flamenco together – me at age 10 – she was 40. She taught me flamenco for a while.”
With a diverse dance training in Classical Ballet, Classical Spanish, Regional and Flamenco Dance, Ché’s love of flamenco, led her to pursue her studies with dancers and teachers in Spain. Her professional company, Tierra Flamenca, was founded in 2015, when she was 23 years old. The aim of Tierra Flamenca is to “bring an authentic flamenco experience of live music and dance to South African audiences, where flamenco can be felt, experienced and explored in a South African context”.
The company’s core members include leading South Africa flamenco artists – renowned flamenco guitarist, Bienyameen Camroodien, singer Harriet Mitchell and flamenco dancers, Ché, Demi Johnson, Julia de Rosenwerth and Jessica Mayson. Its first three productions, FLAMENCO, TRES, and LUNARES, choreographed and directed by Ché, received rave reviews and were sold out.
In 2015, Tierra Flamenca was invited to perform in España 50, the 50th anniversary celebration of the Spanish Dance Society at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. The celebration featured South Africa’s top Spanish Dance companies and renowned Cordoba-born flamenco dancer, Angel Muñoz. In 2018, Ché produced and performed her full-length solo show, Querencia, as part of Curated Consciousness: I call you dance programme at Theatre Arts. This was the premiere of show which is about her journey through life, dance and motherhood.
Ché has choreographed productions and performed in collaboration with artists and companies, such as Taare’s Beats of Bollywood, Spier’s (Brett Bailey) Constellations; Woordfees’ Landscapes for Guitar, Pulso! (award-nominated), and Elogio de la Danza with acclaimed classical guitarist, Nina Fourie-Gouws. Recently, she co-founded The Cape Town Flamenco Collective and performed with South African-born flamenco dancer, Ramon Fernandez. She choreographed for and performed in Sobremesa, a tribute show for the late Sir Geoffrey Neiman at Artscape,
In addition to the professional company, Ché runs Tierra Flamenca Dance Studio in Cape Town which offers classes for all ages and levels. She has also taught at other studios and organisations in South Africa – including La Rosa, Dance For All’s Bridging Programme ans University of Cape Town Spanish Dance.
Her passion for music and dance and the relationship between the two led her to Cape Town based residency, MusicDance021. This residency focuses on interdisciplinary real-time performance composition between musicians and dancers. She has performed in several performances over the last few years, including Thresholds, alongside some of South Africa’s foremost performance artists. This residency has shaped her as a choreographer of live music and dance productions.
Now 34, with more than a decade on the boards, Ché has established herself as a flamenco dancer, choreographer and teacher. Deeply passionate about the healing and cathartic powers of movement and expression through dance and music, she believes that music and dance are intrinsically and instinctively linked and enjoys demonstrating this with her rhythmically intricate, dramatic yet authentically emotive choreography. She sees performance and teaching as a way to process feelings, experiences and trauma through non-verbal expression.
❇ Flamenco Íntimo, presented by Cape Town’s Tierra Flamenca will be on in the Baxter Studio, December 1-5, 2026. Sponsored feature. Images supplied.
