Nati James

Paris/Seville

www.natijames.com FB/Tw/Ins: Nati James Influenced by the greatest international flamenco dancers such as Juana Amaya, Antonio Canales, Farruquito, Carmen Ledesma, La Faraona, La Moneta, El Oruco, Farruco, Adela Campallo, trained in “baile” flamenco during many years in Seville, and winner of the second price of « Bulerias Competition » in Nîmes (under the auspices of José Galvan), Nati James, “La Nati,” flamenco dancer, is also a leading jazz and improvisational vocalist, composer and arranger. She has evolved in the Parisian jazz milieu and having graduated from Bill Evans Piano Academy, as well as having completed her BA in Music, and Musical Degree in Jazz (DEM). She has performed in a variety of prestigious venues across Paris (Sunside/ Cirque Romanès/ La Cigale with “Urban Sax”/ Café Universel), and in a wide variety of festivals in France (Arte Flamenco Festival-Mont de Marsan/ Jazz Metis Festival-Montreuil), Spain (Seville/Ronda), NYC, Dubai, Ecuador, England (Mela Festival-Southampton), Holland Dance Festival (with the choreographer ”Shusaku”), Italy (Bolzano-Arte-Urban Sax), Morocco (Nomads Festival), Brasil (Semente-Rio/SP/Tablao Solea-BH), and Cyprus (Pafos Festival-Khoury Project). She danced in “La Voz del Sur”, Canal Sur TV Program in Spain (Seville), in the “Palacio Andaluz” and currently in the most famous tablao “Tablao Alvarez Quintero”. Sensitive and deeply expressive, “La Nati” delivers the energy and the emotion of flamenco through her force and the beauty of her dance. “Power, rage and beauty are expressed by Nati’s dance.” She has collaborated with artists of high calibre such as Jose Mendez, Pepe Fernandez, David Marin, José Antonio Acevedo, Pilar Carmona, El Tremendo, Manuel Vega, El Farina, Antonio Heredia, Antonio Amador, Carine Bonnefoy with the “New Large Ensemble,” Cristo Cortes, Jesus de la Manuela, Gaël Rakotondrabe, Alberto Garcia, Fyty Carrillo, Kisko de Alcalà, Nicolas Genest, Jean-Baptiste Marino, Juan Manuel Cortes, Ana Barba, and the Khoury Project ( who collaborated with Enrique and Estrella Morente). In 2016 Nati James released her first Jazz flamenco fusion Album and limited edition vinyl, ¡Asín Sí!, with the “Nati James Orchestra” (Urban Records), ondulating between jazz fusion and flamenco.