The Cristina Heeren Foundation and Flamenco-world.com
sponsor two grants for the Sixth Intensive Summer Course
One thousand five hundred
candidates from all over the world showed up for the tryouts
Flamenco-world.com
The two grants that the Cristina Heeren
Foundation is offering for its Sixth Intensive Summer Course have now been awarded
to the English woman Margarita Padilla, and Diego Guerrero from Huelva. The beneficiaries
will enjoy respective courses of dance and guitar that the foundation is giving
in its Seville headquarters between July 1st and 26th, 2002, under the guidance
of a group of teachers made up of star dancers such as Milagros Menjíbar
and Israel Galván; and in the area of guitar-playing, Miguel Ángel
Cortés and José Luis Postigo. Nearly one thousand dancers, and about
five hundred guitarists showed up for the tryouts sponsored by Flamenco-world.com,
from places as far-flung as Estonia, Alaska, Lebanon, Guatemala and New Zealand.
Isabel Bayón teaches in Cristina Heeren Foundation
(Foto Daniel Muñoz)
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The Cristina Heeren Foundation is easing the
way for future professionals of flamenco. The flamenco center awarded the two
grants, for dance and guitar respectively, for its Sixth Intensive Summer Course,
to English dancer Margarita Padilla, and guitarist from Huelva, Diego Guerrero
Sánchez. Within this formative program, which is to take place between
the 1st and the 26th of July, 2002 at the foundation's Seville installations,
some twelve people will participate in each of the three established levels in
the specialties of flamenco singing and dance, and about seven in each of the
two levels for flamenco singing.
The grant, valued at 750 euros, will permit
the two selected students to take twenty hours of instruction weekly, under the
direction of a string of teachers made up of Miguel Ángel Cortés,
José Luis Postigo, Milagros Menjíbar, Eduardo Rebollar, Yolanda
Lorenzo, María José Menjíbar, Paco Taranto, Pepa Sánchez
and, almost certainly, Israel Galván in the advanced dance level. In addition
to the classes for each specialty there will also be general subjects such as
'Introduction to flamenco', 'Compás' and 'Spanish for foreigners'.
The foundation gives classes to about two-hundred
students each year, and has become a authentic breeding-ground for new flamenco
talent. This academy where Naranjito de Triana was teaching until the time of
his death, has yielded winners of the Concurso de Jóvenes [contest for
young artists] of Seville's Bienal de Flamenco, in whose third edition the winner
for Cádiz cante was Laura Vital, and in the Concurso de Cante de las Minas
de La Unión where Jerónimo Seguro was awarded the prize for best
young singer in 2001.
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