ExpoFlamenco
The largest flamenco platform in the world
ABOUT US
ABOUT US
We believe that the Flamenco has the power to promote the understanding, freedom and peace in the world. We provide a virtual space for all fans of the Flamenco and their communities around the world with the aim of sharing and promoting the Flamenco locally and globally.
Our mission
Our mission is to facilitate opportunities and cultural interaction between flamenco fans, professionals, students, companies and organizations with the aim of preserving the legacy and expanding the love of the art. flamenco.
And we continue to work to continue expanding.
A great human team
Our team, with an international profile and a deep passion for art, is dedicated to the global promotion of flamencoWe combine experience in cultural management and international marketing to bring the magic of flamenco to audiences around the world, highlighting its authenticity and cultural richness.
Jafelin Helten
Content Director & Founder
Mitch Helten
Business Director & Founder
Alberto Moya
Operations
Jose Maria Castano
Press and Events
Jose Manuel Gallego
Production
Fernando Hernandez
Production
Gonzalo perez
Graphic design
Nazanin Lajevardi
Customer service
Andreina Yuramis Mata
Administration
Borja Diez
Maintenance
Patricia Manes
Agenda & Advertising
Victor Moya
Web development
Partners
Our journalistic collaborators are experts in the world of flamenco, with a prominent presence in various provinces and countries. They provide us with valuable and up-to-date information, enriching our platform with their knowledge and experience. Below, we introduce some of our distinguished collaborators:
Faustino Nunez
Musicologist from Vigo (Galicia). Researcher and professor. Music lover. In love with flamenco. And passionate about La Viña in Cádiz.
Estela Zatania
Born in Jerez, she is a singer, guitarist, dancer and writer. She is a true flamenco fan. Her articles have been published in numerous specialist magazines and she is a bilingual lecturer in Europe, the United States and Canada.
Manuel Martin Martin
From Écija, Seville. Writer for whom the truth is corrupted by both lies and silence. Among others, first National Journalism Award for Flamenco Criticism, so I don't care if they lynch me if in exchange I guarantee my freedom.
Kiko Valle
Journalist by vocation of the jondo, inveterate aficionado, singer of writing. On a journey to the emotions of the ritual of the jondo, Kiko Valle -Utrera, 1979- requires the participation of words and images to draw the sway of a moan, the colors of a bulería or the scratch of pain. Critic of flamenco, presenter, speaker, photographer and videographer for more than two decades.
Quico Perez Window
Seville, 1969. Andalusian journalist with ethereal interests and perfect verses. Three decades of experience in music and cultural press. With and without support, for people of all kinds.
Jose Ash
Paradas (Seville), 1961. Graduate and PhD in Hispanic Philology. Fan thanks to seeing Miguel Vargas live when he was young. Author of several research books on flamenco and flamenco songs. Contributor to several magazines flamenco. Thank life for knowing, a little, and loving, a lot, the flamenco.
Anthony Count
Granada. Education inspector and doctor in flamenco. Researcher and writer. Author of several books on flamenco. Critic flamenco and I International Research Award of Flamenco.
Alejandro Luque
One foot in Cadiz and the other in Seville. A quarter of a century of cultural journalism, and counting. For the love of art, to the end of the world.
Juan Garrido
Jerez, 1991. Flamenco and communication 24 hours a day. Since 2012, in the written press, radio talk shows, TV shows, festival presentations, specialized magazines... In my family we all dance bulerías, although I am the only journalist.
Jesus Naranjo
Huelva, 1974. I was born in Flamenco at a table of cabales of the Peña Flamenca from Huelva. Since then, this art has been my oxygen. When I express myself, I do so from the heart and looking at the people, as if I were singing for Huelva.
Antonio Parra
Doctor of Philosophy, professor at the Faculty of Communication of the University of Murcia. Author of thirty books, including 'The Pope flamenco', 'The lame man from Malaga', 'Don Antonio Piñana, a flamenco will', 'Chano Lobato, the goblin, the grace and the gifts', 'Singing cafes' or 'The dance jondo, memory of human beauty'. He was director of the International Festival of Cante of the Mines of La Unión and currently heads the Flamenco Summit of Murcia. He is a columnist for the newspaper La Verdad and a critic of flamenco in the newspaper El País.
Carmen Arjona
Almargen, Málaga. She works in the Ministry of Culture and Historical Heritage. She has a degree in Journalism and a PhD in flamenco from the University of Seville. Passionate about art jondo since she was a child and a member of the Peña Cultural Flamenca Francisco Moreno Galván since 1998. She lives entangled in the networks of the jondo. Collaborator in print and digital media. Author of collective works by the Gallo de Vidrio Cultural Group "Azotea de la calle Redes" and in the Ámbitos para la Comunicación collection "La Comunicación Vigilante. El colectiva cultural Gallo de Vidrio (1972-2012)".
Alvaro de la Fuente Mirror
Puente Genil, Córdoba, 1975. Teacher of Musical Education and passionate about art flamenco. Author of the book 'Flamencum Revolutum', which includes a rigorous study of the Drone of Puente Genil. Columnist, lecturer and disseminator of the flamenco from his musical perspective.
Guillermo Castro
(Madrid, 1973) Doctor in Art History and a graduate in the specialty of classical guitar, he has been interested in Spanish music of the XNUMXth century, contemporary music and especially in the Flamenco. His specialized publications are numerous, with works that address a historical-musical study of art flamenco from a modern and updated approach. He is currently Professor of Flamencoology at the Higher Conservatory of Music of Córdoba and Guest Professor of the "Master in Flamenco ESMUC.
Ramon Soler
Ramón Soler Díaz (Málaga, 1966) is a professor of Mathematics and researcher of FlamencoWith this criminal record, he can either go off on a tangent or go off on a tangent, which is why he has published several books on flamenco and traditional lyrics.
Antonio Ortega
Antonio Ortega is a writer and journalist. He has worked in radio, television and print media. In the literary field, he is the author of eleven books covering different genres. He has directed and presented television programmes such as Com.flamenco, Biennial X Medium and Flamencoand Cronopios.
Alejandra Pachon
Dancer from Madrid. Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Rey Juan Carlos University. In Amor de Dios, Casa Patas and Cristina Heeren she developed her love for dance and flamenco"We are not athletes. We are beginning to make the sad mistake of offering the public a linked confection of complex footwork at a breakneck speed without the modulation proper to the music that we are embellishing and that embellishes us."
Lourdes Galvez del Postigo
Malaga native with strong family ties to the Flamenco and the Verdiales Festival. A graduate in Art History, she has combined her academic training with her flamenco vocation, highlighting her commitment as a critic and disseminator, whether through conferences, articles, exhibitions or her radio sections on SER and Canal Sur, where she tries to bring the Flamenco without giving up rigor.
Fran Reina
Caves of San Marcos (Malaga), 1974. Journalist specialized in flamenco. Director of the Magazine Pellizco Flamenco. Manages a weekly section on flamenco on Fuengirola TV and collaborates on the program Universo Flamenco from Canal Málaga Radio. Presents festivals flamencos.
Irra Torres
Huelva, 1977. Teacher and passionate guitarist of flamenco. Researcher and promoter of our culture. The path of the compass leads him to be a teacher with duende.
Angels Castellanos
Sevillana around the world. Flamenco dancer and all-round journalist. Curious by trade, always in search of emotion. In culture and art since much earlier than I would like to admit, pursuing a long-distance career full of secondary roads.
Eduardo Pastor
Eduardo J. Pastor (Paradas, Seville, 1978) is a lawyer and writer. His passion is the world flamenco and literature. The result of this are the works 'From the front and from the profile. Portraits of flamencos' (Ayto. De Paradas, 2018), 'Fernando Villalón. Centaur of Pena' (Almuzara, 2019), 'Behind closed doors' (Libros Indie, 2021), 'That was not in my book of the history of flamenco' (Almuzara, 2022) and 'What does anyone know. Sentimental autobiography of Juan Moneo The Cake' (LaBaja Andalucía, 2024).
Suzanne Zellinger
Cultural journalist with residences in Jerez and Vienna. He publishes the yearbook of Spanish culture and the flamenco 'Flamenco Divine'. He writes about topics flamencos for various dance magazines and websites. He gives lectures on flamenco contemporary film at universities and festivals in Europe. He directed the prestigious German magazine 'Anda'. In 2022 he directed and produced the documentary 'Paraíso de Cristal'.
Joaquin Zapata
La Unión, 1993. Practicing lawyer in Cartagena. Councillor in the City Council of La Unión. He writes periodically in some digital media of flamenco. He is passionate about the cultural legacy of his land, to which he is inextricably linked through flamencoThe mines of the heart, nobody knows where they are.
Manuel Bohorquez
Arahal, Seville, 1958. Critic of flamenco, journalist and writer. 40 years of flamenco research. Author of biographies of the Niña de los Peines, Carbonerillo, Manuel Escacena, Tomás Pavón, Fernando el de Triana, Manuel Gerena, Canario de Álora...
Diego Mendez
Jerez, 2002. Graduated in Administration, flamenco blood runs through my veins, from a soleá to some bulerías by my aunt Paquera.
Why ExpoFlamenco is different
Since 2015 ExpoFlamenco has been relentlessly pursuing the passion of Flamenco. From our humble beginnings, ExpoFlamenco has become a collective of passionate fans of flamenco with the common mission of empowering those who love and live art flamenco.
