On November 16, the Day of Flamenco in Andalusia, which commemorates the fourteenth anniversary of the declaration of flamenco as Intangible Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO. To commemorate this anniversary, and with the aim of bringing art closer jondo to the citizens, the Ministry of Culture and Sport, through the Andalusian Institute of Flamenco, has designed a programme of its own activities and in collaboration with other entities that will dominate the Andalusian cultural agenda in the coming weeks in historic artistic spaces and with educational centres as protagonists.
One of the main actions to commemorate the anniversary is the Call to Flamenco, an action that combines culture and heritage and that will take place on the afternoon of November 15 in eight heritage sites in the eight Andalusian provinces, coinciding with the exact time of sunset. The Call to the Flamenco will invite dancers from all provinces to perform a dance in each of the spaces coinciding with the sunset. Thus, in the province of Almería, the Castillo de Guardias Viejas in El Ejido will begin this action with the dancer Maite Beltran, who will perform a dance of tarantos. The dancer Pilar Ogalla and the students of their training center will dance alegrías at the Santa Catalina Castle in Cádiz, while in Medina Azahara (Córdoba), the students of the Dance Academy of Stephanie Cuevas they will make a mountain woman.
The students of the dance school of Lucia Guarnido in the Plaza de las Pasiegas in Granada, while in the Paseo de Arriba in Alosno (Huelva), the Cascabeleros de Alosno Dance and Dance They will offer some stopped fandangos. In the Plaza de la Iglesia del Salvador in Úbeda (Jaén) the dancer will meet Dalia Sanchez Vilches, the singer Armando Mateo Fernandez and the guitarist Jose Romero Santiago to dance tarantas. In Malaga the Call to the Flamenco It will be done from Pier One, where dance students will meet flamenco of the Angel Pericet Conservatory of Dance to dance for abandolaos, while in Seville the Castle of Utrera will be the stage where Sofia Suarez y Utrera's Water They will perform bulerías. These actions follow the setting of the sun, so they will take place almost simultaneously, starting at 18:00 p.m. in Almería and ending at 18:20 p.m. in Huelva.
On November 15th the reading of the Manifesto of the Day of Flamenco, which on this occasion will be performed by the musician David Peña Dorants and will be disseminated through social networks and the media. This action seeks to spread the word about the event within and outside Andalusia.
A day earlier, on November 14, at the Gran Teatro de Huelva, the III Gala of the Day of the Flamenco, with a recital by the singers Jeromo Segura y Jesus Corbacho, both winners of the Minera Lamp Festival Cante from the Mines of the Union, the dance of Maria Canea and the guitar of Alvaro Mora and collaboration with the cante de Sandra Carrasco.
«On November 15th the reading of the Manifesto of the Day of the Flamenco, which will be performed by the musician David Peña Dorantes and will be disseminated through social networks and the media. This action seeks to spread the event inside and outside Andalusia.
A choreography of the Ballet Flamenco Andalusia
To continue generating new audiences for art jondo, again this year the school community has been invited to participate in the Day of Flamenco in Andalusia. To this end, in addition to the various workshops that have been scheduled in all the provinces, Andalusian schools have been asked to have their students learn and dance a choreography created for this occasion by the director of the Ballet Flamenco from Andalusia, Patricia guerreroThrough a recording that will be distributed among schools, Andalusian schoolchildren will be invited to rehearse and dance the choreography in the coming weeks.
In addition, the Ballet Flamenco from Andalusia will participate on the 14th, in Granada, in the Gala for the presentation of the awards of the biennial of Flamenco from ONCE, an organization that this year will recognize the public company for its 30th anniversary. They will also perform at the Gala Forum Flamenco organized South Canal.
Also, to celebrate the Day of Flamenco In Andalusia, the Apolo Theatre in Almería will host the awards gala on November 18 Flamenco in the classroom, an activity that is held every year to recognize and promote knowledge and inclusion of Flamenco in the Andalusian education system. This gala is organised by the Ministries of Culture and Sport and Educational Development and Vocational Training.
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The community's dance and music conservatories have joined in the commemoration with some specific activities. Like the Rafael Orozco Conservatory of Music in Cordoba, which will offer workshops to primary and secondary school students and will offer two recitals. The Ángel Pericet Conservatory of Dance has designed activities that include workshops, masterclasses, a gala and a flash mob. And the Antonio Ruiz Soler Conservatory of Dance has created, together with La Fundición, a Meeting of Flamenco Plot this month of November.
As a novelty, this year two activities have been scheduled to inaugurate the program Flamenco in Unique SpacesSpecifically, two performances will be held in format site specific, one of them at the Andalusian Centre for Contemporary Art in Seville, by the choreographer and dancer david coria and a second, in collaboration with the University of Granada, in the Palacio de la Madraza, with Christina Hall y Sara Holgado. Along these lines, although outside the program, there will also be flamenco at the Faculty of Labor Sciences of the University of Córdoba, which hosts the II Gala of the Provincial Federation of Peñas of Córdoba; in public libraries, such as the one in Granada, which offers a storyteller flamenco aimed at audiences aged 3 to 8; or the one in Malaga, with the bibliographic exhibition Flamenco: the Malagueña, which includes posters, monographs and audiovisual material.
El cante jondo will reach the provincial museums, such as the Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of Granada, which has scheduled a recital of cante in charge of Ivan Centenillo and two workshops, one on cantes granadinos and others about the emotions of the flamenco. At the Jaén Museum, on the 16th there will be two sessions of a poetic walk in which the audience will tour the different rooms accompanied by a narrator, a dancer and a guitarist. flamenco.
«Festivals and events are held in different provinces these weeks flamencos that are also part of the anniversary. This is the case of Al Compás de Camas, whose first edition will take place next week; the International Festival of Flamenco City of Jaén, the VII Council Flamenco from Archidona or November Flamenco from Mairena del Alcor»
Festivals and events
Festivals and events are celebrated in different provinces during these weeks. flamencos that are also part of the anniversary. This is the case of To the rhythm of beds, whose first edition will take place next week; International Festival of Flamenco City of Jaen, VII Town Hall Flamenco from Archidona or November Flamenco from Mairena del Alcor.
In the same way, peñaFlamenco shows, meeting places between fans and artists, will offer an extensive programme in the coming weeks with 75 performances by cante, dance and touch within the Andalusian Circuit of Peñas Flamencas organized by the Andalusian Institute of Flamenco and the Andalusian Confederation of Peñas.
The relationship of flamenco With other arts, it is also present in the celebration of November 16 in exhibitions such as The magic of dance, Javier Caró, which will host the headquarters of the Andalusian Institute of Flamenco. A conference dedicated to remembering the figure of the writer will also be held these days. Fernando Quiñones, in Cadiz and Chiclana.
