The Independent
Karina Carmen Velasco will be performing at the Canyon Community Center located at 126 Lion Boulevard in Springdale on Friday, Jan. 30, 2015.
Karina Carmen Velasco was born in Madrid, Spain of both Spanish and Cuban heritage and she was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She considers herself a performance artist and a story teller utilizing her physical body. Since age 4, her primary mediums of expression were evident in four paths, which is why her award winning company is called Cuatro Caminos or Four Paths; these include dance, music, written word and acting.
In the Art of Flamenco she found not only a performance art form that resonated intuitively and instinctively from within her, culturally, but an art form that includes all four paths of expression. With performances at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico, The Kodak Theater, Hollywood, at The Los Angeles Theater Center, in the nationally acclaimed From The Horses’ Mouth in both traditional and contemporary Flamenco, Opera and Classical Theater. She has been commissioned by the Mayor of Los Angeles, the Historic Society of Chula Vista, CA, the U.S. Government, the Consul General of Spain, to name a few.
Collaborating with artists from around the World, she has worked in all mediums from stage, to film as well as artist performance pieces. Awarded in 2008 with the Durfee Foundation for the Arts Outstanding Artist Award Los Angeles in Dance, she is a grant recipient for the continued development of the arts. She has dedicated her work and company to one of her most driving passions the desire to contribute through love and art to the continued growth of multicultural understanding and gender equality. She is a deeply devoted Mother and advocate for human rights and children around the World.
