FESTIVAL DE JEREZ 2010. PRESENTATION OF THE BILL IN MADRID
“Festival de Jerez 2010
is the fruit of flamencos’ natural intelligence”
S.C. Madrid, January 22nd, 2010
In times of crisis, as the Cubans
say, you have to make things up. And flamencos are wise
at that. According to the director of Festival de Jerez
2010, Isamay Benavente, the feature of the bill to emphasize
is “the natural intelligence of flamencos to set up
synthetic shows by associating with one another”.
And standing out among the shows in keeping with this line
is that of Joaquín
Grilo with Dorantes as guest artist, that of Belén
Maya side by side with Olga Pericet and that of Antonio
Canales dancing to the piano of Mie Matsumura.
Carmelilla Montoya, Lola Greco
and Amador Rojas in 'Fedra' |
But like the thirteen previous editions
of Festival de Jerez, foremost is “a great variety
of proposals, combining very sober shows by soloists with
great choreographic shows”. That is how Benavente
explained it in the program’s presentation at the
headquarters of the Ministry of Culture in Madrid, one of
the administrations backing the project.
Moreover, the director insisted that the
bill “tries to please all tastes”. Hence a new
venue even premieres this year, the Sala Paúl, to
make room for “a more roguish type of flamenco”.
That’s where performances are scheduled by groups
leaning towards rock such as Tomasito with Los Delinqüentes,
Diego
Carrasco and Chicana Gypsy Project.
Regarding the course program which will
be held at the same time as the shows, the director informed
that out of nearly a thousand places, there are only twenty
free ones left. She pointed out that it’s been the
year registration has filled up the fastest and recalled
that in just one week, seventy percent of the places available
were taken.
Flamenco Year 2013
The mayor of Jerez, Pilar Sánchez,
who presided over the act together with the director of
INAEM and the Junta de Andalucía’s councilwoman
of Culture, besides commenting on the offer of this edition
of the festival, disclosed details about the two big projects
revolving around flamenco which the city is working on.
One of them is the Year of Flamenco 2013. And the other,
the City of Flamenco, whose contract is being awarded and
will begin construction within a few months, with the aim
of being inaugurated in 2013 itself. The project, which
has been at a standstill for several years, involves the
construction of a cultural complex for the promotion and
coverage of flamenco art, located in an emblematic building
designed by the architects Herzog & De Meuron.
Joaquín Grilo, 'Leyenda
personal'
(Photo Miguel Ángel González)
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