Sara
Baras opens the flamenco festival in the Spanish Pavilion
at the 2005 EXPO Aichi with overwhelming success. Sara
Baras received two ovations from Japanese audiences with her
show ‘Sueños’: at the Aichi Expo Dome on
Saturday 7th May (where, as an exceptional measure, the doors
had to be opened due to huge attendance) and at the Tokyo International
Forum on Tuesday 10th May. After the Cadiz-born bailaora's hugely
successful performance, she moves aside for Eva Yerbabuena,
Diego Cigala alongside Chucho Valdés, Mayte Martín
and Belén Maya, Ojos de Brujo, the Nuevo Ballet Español
and a Flamenco Gala with Merche Esmeralda, El Güito, Carmen
Cortés and Gerardo Núñez. These are just
some of the shows that the Spanish Pavilion at EXPO Aichi 2005,
run by the SEEI, will take to Japan. The resulting Flamenco
Festival runs from 7th to 31st May, and will feature more than
twenty shows.
