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Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco 2010 weighs up its results
The festival’s figures go down compared
to 2008, following the budget cut
S.C./Flamenco-world.com, October 20th, 2010
| Bienal
de Flamenco de Sevilla 2012 will be held from
September 7th to October 6th with the slogan
‘De cuerpo y alma’ (‘With
Body and Soul’) |
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The budget cut has made itself felt at Bienal
de Flamenco de Sevilla 2010. The 18% decrease in the cost
of the Sevillian festival, down to 2,351,818 euros, has
brought about a slight descent in the figures of the official
results. The occupation index dropped 5% from the 2008
edition, down to 90%, with a total of 46,379 tickets sold.
The number of shows which sold out also decreased slightly,
from 39 in the previous festival to 36 in the one this
year. Paco
de Lucía, Estrella Morente, Andrés
Marín, Rubén Olmo, Farruquito, Yerbabuena
and Isabel Bayón were some of the artists who managed
to hang up the “sold out” signs at their performances.
Seville Mayor Alfredo Sanchez,
with the Delegate of Culture, Maribel Montaño,
and the director of the Bienal, Domingo González
(Photo Bienal 2010 Charo Corrales) |
In total, Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco 2010 scheduled
56 shows, seen in 66 performances over a period of twenty-five
days. 57,501 tickets came out on sale, with a total of
899,129 euros managing to be collected at the box office.
In the previous edition, 53,458 tickets came out and 46,379
were sold in total, with box office receipts of 925,000
euros. There were 32 days of activity then, with 55 shows
scheduled and 70 performances on the bill.
Regarding the program, the official results highlight
the success of the children’s series at the Teatro
Alameda. Between schoolchildren and the general public,
over two thousand people attended the flamenco shows for
children ‘Flamenco School Musical’ and ‘Flamenco
Kids’. They also stress the increase in related
activities, with 150 in total, especially in training
and disclosure; and the Off-Bienal which complemented
the offer of shows and activities at different private
venues in the city such as the Sala Joaquín Turina,
the Sala El Cachorro and the Teatro Quintero.
According to the surveys carried out right outside of
theaters, the average of audiences’ degree of satisfaction
with the shows is 8.94 on a scale of 1 to 10. Said polls
also point out that the number of visitors from outside
of Seville increased ten percent, with 35% coming from
countries outside of Spain. A total of 11,300 people from
40 different countries traveled to the city of Seville
on the occasion of the Bienal, according to the official
data. The top ten include several European countries,
the United States, Japan and Australia.
Towards Bienal 2012
The Giraldillo Awards of Bienal 2010 have yet to be given
out. It will be on Friday, October 22nd when the jury,
consisting of members of the festival’s advisory
council, sits down to deliberate. The awarding of the
statuettes will take place on February 22nd, 2011 at the
Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville. From that moment forward,
the countdown will begin to the festival’s seventeenth
edition. The dates have already been decided; it will
be from September 7th to October 6th, 2012. The slogan:
‘De cuerpo y alma’ (‘With Body and Soul’).
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