Portal de Cartagena
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Cartagena has from this Thursday, November 2 until May 31, 2018 a training project dedicated to Flamenco.
This is an initiative for the 2017/2018 academic year that arises from the collaboration agreement reached between the Flamenco Chair Association and the City Council, through the Department of Archaeological Heritage, and whose classes will be taught in the classrooms of the Integrated Training Center Professional Hespérides.
The councilor of the area, Ricardo Segado, has presented together with the president of the promoter entity, Juan Ruipérez, and the director of the CIFP Hespérides, Antonio Arroyo, this program that will teach lessons in flamenco singing, dancing and guitar whose notions will run by Salvador Salas (cante), Cynthia Cano and Mamen Baños (baile) and Manuel León (guitar) and the deadline to register will remain open until March 15, 2018.
Interested persons can formalize their registration in person at the Hespérides center (former Institute of FP Bastarreche, located on Doña Constanza Street, 2, Santa Lucía), also online by sending an email to catedraflamenco@gmail.com and through telephones 615 52 41 14 (Cátedra de Flamenco) and 698 32 00 35 and 968 52 09 35 (CIFP Hespérides).
The cost of the course is 40 euros per month per person, although the idea of ​​the organizers is to reach in the future a single fee, corresponding to tuition, when grants are obtained to cover the expenses of the same and do more affordable to the public.
At the moment there are already 27 enrolled students of a maximum of 45, which are divided into three groups of 15, one for each discipline.
CHATS AND A FINAL GALA
Apart from the teaching of the three fundamental flamenco styles - singing, dancing and guitar - a series of talks will be scheduled between January and April 2018 with demonstrations at the municipal institutes that so request.
There will also be a Final Course gala in which a reminder will be held of the I National Contest of Cante by Cartageneras that was held in 1964, where the students themselves will perform and in which a 'Flamenco Encounter' will also take place.
All the events of the program will be dedicated to Carmen Conde on the occasion of the 110th anniversary of her birth.
Ricardo Segado wanted to "highlight" during his speech "the quality of teaching" of this course and has underlined the roots of this type of singing in the port city.
The chairman of the Flamenco Chair, for his part, has expressed his wish that in the future the singing contest will be reactivated, since throughout the Region of Murcia there are more than ten contests of this type while Cartagena, "which is a pioneer", does not have it.
The director of the CIFP Hespérides has said that from the center he manages they feel "very proud" that the classes are taught there.
All of them have invited those people who want to participate to join the course.
CHAIR OF FLAMENCO
The Cátedra de Flamenco de Cartagena is an association that has a long history, since it was founded in 1981 thanks to the impulse of Carmen Conde -the first female academic of the language-, Antonio Piñana -aloror and National Flamenco Prize- and her current president, Juan Ruipérez.
The entity was born with the aim of developing and promoting activities related to flamenco culture and art and is constituted as an entity of a pedagogical nature that promotes all the arts related to flamenco in general and especially to the cantes of Cartagena.
Its main activity from the beginning was focused on teaching so that the typical cantes of this land, which are deeply rooted in Cartagena, La Unión and throughout the Region of Murcia, would not be lost.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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