From 6 to September 30, 2018.

La Bienal is the great international event of the world of flamenco. Every two years, Seville becomes the great showcase where amateurs and professionals of the sector from all over the world look. The main stage spaces of the city are consecrated to the festival to offer for several weeks the most anticipated premieres, the art of the main figures and the proposals of the young values. Since its birth in 1980, La Bienal has celebrated 18 editions for more than three decades. In this time, the show has programmed all kinds of proposals and trends, giving its place to all the aesthetics, colors and perspectives that inhabit flamenco art. A great cultural container where the most traditional and root flamenco coexists harmoniously with the most experimental, risky and avant-garde flamenco.

Know your complete program in the following link: http://www.labienal.com/programa/

El Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía llevo su espectáculo ‘Imágenes’ al antiguo teatro romano del yacimiento arqueológico de Itálica en Santiponce (Sevilla), actuando por primera vez en ese escenario con motivo de su 20 aniversario.

‘Imágenes’ consiguió el premio ‘Giraldillo’ al Mejor Espectáculo en la última edición de la Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla. Asimismo, Rafaela Carrasco fue alumna, repetidora, solista y, desde 2013, directora artística y coreógrafa del Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, experiencias que le aportan una profunda huella creativa.

Carrasco preparó en 2013 para el ballet el espectáculo ‘En la Memoria del Cante: Granada 1922’, con la que obtuvo la dirección de la compañía; posteriormente, y con motivo del 20 aniversario, realizó estas ‘Imágenes’ basadas en los momentos “rutilantes” de varias de las coreografías de etapas anteriores.

El Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía ha tenido al frente de la dirección artística a bailarines o coreógrafos de primera línea, como Mario Maya, María Pagés, José Antonio, Javier Barón, Eva Yerbabuena, Antonio Gades, Isabel Bayón o Cristina Hoyos; varias de estas direcciones merecieron premios nacionales de distintas especialidades escénicas.

En este sentido, las coreografías han estado inspiradas en temas o personajes como la ‘Suite Iberia’ de Albéniz; ‘La Vida Breve’ de Falla; ‘Escenas taurinas’ de Picasso, y una amplia producción de obras de Federico García Lorca.

En el elenco del espectáculo, la propia Rafaela Carrasco y Ana Morales fueron solistas femeninas, mientras que David Coria -también repetidor- y Hugo López fueron los solistas masculinos; el resto del cuerpo de baile lo formaron Alejandra Gudí, Florencia O’Ryan Zúñiga, Laura Santamaría, Eduardo Leal, Antonio López y Alberto Sellés, Paula Comitre y Carmen Yanes. La parte musical contó con los cantaores Miguel Ortega y Antonio Campos y las guitarras de Juan Antonio Suárez ‘Cano’ y Jesús Torres.

Channel Andalucia Flamenco to spread this art worldwide

It has presented the channel Andalucia Flamenco, a multimedia platform RTVA 24 hours a day flamenco. The presentation of this new thematic channel maximum accessibility has been carried out in Andujar (Jaen), where the Andalusian Radio Television tonight will receive the award Rafael Romero ‘El Gallina’.

This new channel can be viewed online on its official website:
www.canalandaluciaflamenco.tv

It also has numerous radio and audiovisual content to be accessed easily. News of flamenco and treasured Flemish RTVA material has accumulated over 27 years of experience.

Amor de Dios, the flamenco center in Madrid where Ms. Barrio, 50, and her husband, Martín Santangelo, 51, met and trained, was below ground. She relished its smell: humid.

“Going down the stairs, you felt part of a secret,” she said. You were “isolated from the rest of the city.”

The idea was to inspire, and to take flamenco back to its roots, said Mr. Santangelo, the founder and artistic director of Noche Flamenca. “In Granada, people danced flamenco in caves.”

In Madrid, Ms. Barrio added, the rich “have a private party, after the big party,” where flamenco dancers perform in wine cellars.

The West Park Presbyterian Church, a Romanesque Revival building on West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, where Ms. Barrio now teaches flamenco, has a similar feel. It has been covered with scaffolding for years. It has a side door that is hard to find, and a cavernous sanctuary

More info: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/nyregion/a-renowned-dance-couple-keeps-flamencos-flame-burning-in-new-york.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0