Antonio Najarro from Madrid won the contest which Ministry of Culture announced and will be the new director of the National Ballet of Spain (BNE).
The act of solidarity "Flamencos of Sevilla for Japan" was celebrated in Teatro Alameda in Seville last Wednesday, April the 30th. The theater was full. Young Japanese flamenco artists and important artists of the flamenco like Esperanza Fernández, Adela Campallo, Javier Barón, Pedro Sierra, Rafael Campallo or Pastora Galván collcted money for Japan where people suffered huge damages after the earthquake.
La Moneta, Belén Maya, Isabel Bayón, La Choni, and Manuel Liñán, among the other protagonists of the 13th summer flamenco festival of Granada.
A week after the 8.9 magnitude earthquake shook Japan and triggered a devastating tsunami in the north-east of Japan, some flamenco artists who were working there are coming back to Spain.
The well-known season of flamenco of Cajasol will open in style even though the event faces to the reduction of budjet this year - 100.000 euros opposite to 165.000 euros of 2010 - and the reduction of the program: in the first part of the season, Jueves primavera, they will program only seven performances; and from October to Decemberm they will carry out the second part of the program, Jueves de otoño, which has not been decided yet.
Antonio El Pipa, in the course of baile flamenco, and Arcángel, in the course of cante, join the learning program of the Festival of the Guitar in Córdoba. The registration for these courses will start on March the 21st.
The Insistuto Cervantes will step up the activities in all their centers to promote the flamenco, an art that was declared as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in October last year.
On Tuesday the 22nd, the director of Culture of the Autonomous Government of Andalucia, Paulino Plata, and the director of the Andalucian Agency of the Flamenco, Mª Ángeles Carrasco, presented the agreement with the Foundation Mario Maya for the degitalization fo the work of Mario Maya who have been one of the leading people of the flamenco dance of the history.
On Monday the 14th of February, they hold the presentation of the Prizes Andalucia of Culture at the Teatro Central in Sevilla.
The minister of Cultura of the Autonomous Government of Andalucia, Paulino Plata presented the program of "Flamenco Viene del Sur 2011" in Sevilla last Thursday. This season has already been consolidated in eight capitals of Andalucia. This year the season will start on the 18th of February in Sevilla and will end in Cádiz on the 2nd of June.
