Now here’s the way to experience flamenco: in an intimate setting, with a drink in your hand, and with heart and mind open to the passions ready to be unleashed within and without.

That’s the full-immersion, music and movement experience proposed by Zorongo Flamenco this weekend (Feb. 20-21) in the smallish Ritz Theater in northeast Minneapolis. Artistic director and dancer Susana di Palma, now in her 60s, is still the one to watch because of her ability to at once convey the contained boil and the volcanic eruption of emotion.

She’s joined by her ensemble dancers, as well as by an internationally renowned coterie of flamenco musicians, including singer Jesus Montoya and guitarist Pedro Cortés Jr.

For many years now di Palma has tinkered with inventive, interdisciplinary elasticity that embodies the dance form’s inherent contradictions. This concert returns di Palma and her company to flamenco’s earthy traditions: as a protest form created by Andalusian peasants in the caves of Spain. Ole.

Café Flamenco at the Ritz, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (Feb. 20-21), Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis ($25). 612-436-1129.