11/03/2011 Festival de Jerez Jerez Festivals

The New Spanish Ballet is exploring the magic of the flamenco universe in "Cambio de tercio": XV. Festival of Jerez

El Nuevo Ballet Español explora en la magia del universo flamenco en 'Cambio de tercio'. XV Festival de Jerez

Rojas y Rodriguez

Rojas and Rodriguez are presenting a world of choreography "cañí" where ten artist are also playing an important role. Angel Rojas and Carlos Rodriguez, the faces and the founders of the New Spanish Ballet, are putting aside, for the moment, the Spanish dance and are now developing a new stage of choreography marked by the magic of the flamenco universe. That's why their new show is called "Cambio de tercio" (Change of rhythm). With more than fifteen years of artisitcal experience and more than 300 performances of their last show "Sangre", the new work of the company will be on stage on Friday, March 11. in the Theater Villamarta, during the last day but one of the XV. edition of the Jerez event. Ultra High Flamenco will complete the musical experience, presenting for the first time his new disc "Bipolar" at 7 pm in the Paul Room; and the dance of José Maya, presenting "Maya" at midnight in the Compañía Room and during the cycle "Solos en Compañía". "Cambio de Tercio" is the new show created by choreographers and dancers Rojas and Rodriguez, the show is full of energy and offers three different parts with the flamenco magic.

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11/03/2011 Festival de Jerez Jerez Bailaores Festivals Shows News

"When I was..." the new work of Eva Yerbabuena that closes the contest dedicated to the Flamenco and Spanish dance. XV Jerez Festival

Eva Yerbabuena

Until where can we imagine something we didn't lived". This is the deep thought that inagurates the new job of the granadine dancer Eva Yerbabuena, who comes back with her company after performing two years ago at the Villamarta theater her previous work, "Lluvia". In this occasion, the artist born in Frankfurt will be in charge to close the XV Jerez festival with "When I was...", a show that would be possible to see tomorrow ,saturday the 12th of March in the "Coliseo Jerezano".

In this show, the memories, real and fictitious ones, are again the "leit motiv"of a play
in which the symbolisim of a potter's wheel focus a scene, where Yerbabuena shows up ready to mold those sleepy conciences starting from her reputation of"melancolic woman".
The last day of the "muestra jerezana"of flamenco and spanish dance is completed with the session , from noon, of the workshop, "Understand the flamenco".Learn to distinguish the "palos", taught by Faustino Núñez in the Andaluz Center of Flamenco (CAF); and with a new exhibition from 7pm in the Sala Paúl, of the workshop of choreography of the valencian "maestro"Javier Latorre. In "When I was...", Eva Yerbabuena gets back that melancolic and nostalgic air that characterizes her, under the influence of the victims's relatives loss, in the Spanish Civil War, to think again about the absences, the movement and the search.
"I am a person always searching through movement, I can talk more with movement than with words. "What happened?, why this happened?, What would have happened if everthing would have been different?", thinks Yerbabuena in the short sypnosis of a play that locks up, as in other creations, more questions than answers.

For this work, the Granadine dancer and choreographer has come back with her habitual team, with the guitarist Paco Jarana. From his notes start the score of the show, with the scenic management of Juan Ruesga.
In "the Alfarero worshop", one of the most important scenes of this production, and with the mud as guide of the plot, that' s where the director admits that Eva "spreads all her mystery", in a conceived play,he explains, "like a circle structure, where the dancer and the lump of mud spinning form an important visual parallelism".

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10/02/2011 Moda Flamenca Jerez News

Pasarela Flamenca Jerez 2011. Del 17 al 20 de Febrero. Museos de la Atalaya.

Pasarela Flamenca Jerez 2011

The ingenuity, the strenght and the creativity of designers of the south of Jerez are back this February. Once again (this is the fourth edition) the ingenuity, the creativity and the strenght of the fashion designers from Andalusia will show their work on the Flamenco Catwalks between February 17. and 21. at the Museum of La Atalaya. The different fashion shows will offer the most innovative trends around the flamenco costumes, de gipsy costumes, and the ones with flounces. These formations will be showed all along the ferias celebrated in Andalusia, and also during the Rocio pilgrimage: the most beautiful and original windows that you can imagine. The professionals of the sector and the lovers of the flamenco fashion will meet in La Atalaya. Then it will the time for mantones and shoes, for necklaces and earrings, fabrics, flowers and a long list of accesories forming the thread of the designer. After the success reached during the last edition, with more than 15'000 visitors, the well done job of the Division of the Models and Hostesses of the Galvez Group that allowed to consolidate a cultural event with an incredible impact on the craft industry and, of course on the Jerez brand.The Flamenco Catwalk of Jerez is back to be admired in La Atalaya, perfect and privileged, allowing to discover a lots of details.

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28/04/2010 Classes Formación Jerez News

Understanding Flamenco: Summer Course in Jerez

After last year's fruitful experience, the radio program Los Caminos del Cante (Onda Jerez Radio-EMA Satelite), in colaboration with the Jerez City Hall (through the Education and Youth Delegations) convenes its second stage 'Conocer el Flamenco' (Getting to know flamenco).

This course is directed to anyone interested in participating, and it's objective is to explain the key factors of this art, so that students can distinguish between the different styles of flamenco using such elements as rhythm, literary structure and musical scales...

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27/04/2010 Jerez Seville Ferias

2010 Andalusian Feria Dates

Each year, the arrival of the Feria de Abril in Seville marks the beginning of the Andalusian feria season (Spring and Summer). Last Sunday, the Feria de Abril closed with a spectacular fireworks show, but there are still a lot of ferias to enjoy in 2010...

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