Courses, exhibits and new releases complete the bill of Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco 2006

Photographs by Carlos Saura and Gilles Larrain are to be on exhibit in September

Flamenco-world.com, June 2006

Program of related activities. Bienal de Sevilla 2006

With the lineup closed and the ‘+Jóvenes+Flamenco’ series already underway, Seville’s Bienal de Flamenco reveals the details of its program of related activities. The festival, which will be held from September 13th to October 15th, completes the extensive offer of live flamenco with a program of training and artistic activities. Standing out are courses organized with the three universities in Seville, exhibits by artists like Carlos Saura and Gilles Larrain, plus releases on CD and DVD of the work of several artists, among them, bailaora María Pagés and cantaores El Carbonerillo and Naranjito de Triana.

	Manuel Carrasco (From 'Flamenco' (BOOK) by Carlos Saura)

The three Sevillian universities, Universidad Hispalense, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (UNIA) and Universidad Pablo de Olavide, join forces to offer a calendar of flamenco courses valid in the calculation of students’ credit hours. The course ‘Yesterday and Today’s Flamenco’ will be held at the main campus of Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Carmona. Also scheduled is the course ‘Introduction to Flamenco Esthetics Through Toque’ at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville. Elsewhere, Universidad Hispalense will present ‘Baile: Knowledge and Enjoyment’, directed by José Luis Navarro, Cristina Cruces and Rafael Infante. And at UNIA, the course ‘Flamencos Talk about Themselves’ will be held, with five classes starring artists in the three flamenco categories: toque, cante and baile. Among them will be Manolo Sanlúcar, El Lebrijano, Diego Carrasco, Mario Maya, Matilde Coral and Chano Lobato.

María Pagés on DVD

Besides the training area, the Bienal highlights new releases. The release is scheduled of a tribute album to cantaor Naranjito de Triana, taking part on which are thirteen former pupils of the maestro at the Cristina Heeren Foundation. Also to come out is a complete release by Manuel Vega García ‘El Carbonerillo’, with his entire discography and a DVD. And moreover, honoring baile, the main motif of this edition, a DVD collection will begin with a first volume focusing on the shows by María Pagés premiered in previous editions.

Exhibits will also be present in the series of related activities in this fourteenth Bienal. Carlos Saura, author of this year’s poster, will present at the Real Alcázar from September to October an anthological exhibit of flamenco photographs, already compiled a few months ago in the book ‘Flamenco’. During the festival, at Pabellón Hassan II of Isla de la Cartuja, Fundación Tres Culturas will present the exhibit ‘Flamenco: Landscape of the Soul’, consisting of photos which Gilles Larrain took on his trip to Seville in 1983. Photographs will also be displayed of a journey along the history of the Mont de Marsan Flamenco Festival. ‘Flamenco Art: One Festival’s Passion’ is to be presented at Caja San Fernando’s Sala Imagen with a stage show including the work of diverse photographers, documentaries, paintings and posters. Also kicking off in September will be a traveling exhibit of the posters of Bienal de Sevilla’s fourteen editions, which will make stops at civic centers in several neighborhoods in Seville before moving on to Alosno (Huelva).

Mario Maya (Photo: Gilles Larrain)
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Completing the program of related activities is ‘Flamenco Contemporary Set’, the multidisciplinary project by the group Sesión 03.06, bringing together music, dance, photography, video and new technologies at Sala Endanza. In the corridors of Teatro Lope de Vega, tribute will be paid to Antonio Gades, with the installment of panels with information and photos about his life and work, carried out by the Antonio Gades Foundation. At the same time, at the Casino de la Exposición, the latest issue of the magazine Música Oral del Sur will be presented by the Andalusia Center of Musical Documentation under the title ‘Thinking Flamenco from Social Sciences’, which includes the results of cultural-scientific events held in New York and Granada.

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