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This afternoon, the program also includes lectures by experts José Manuel Gamboa and Juan Verdu.
The Union, Friday July 19, 2013. - The second day of the Fourth Congress Flemish Research University has set its eyes on Japan and the Netherlands, and the fans and the knowledge within these nations on the art of the jondo.
The first of the speakers, the Japanese Kioko Shikaze, stressed the flamenco tradition in the Japanese country since the year 1929 saw dancing to Argentina.
It was this Spanish dancer, who also leaned flamenco, which sowed the seeds of what has become a true passion for flamenco, and reached its peak in the early sixties, when intensified the interaction between artists from both countries.
Something similar happened to Kioko Shikaze, speaker of the conference "Flamenco and Japan", when he saw action for the first time to the company of Antonio Gades.
It was 1986, and decided to leave her job in the world of finance in the city of Osaka, to change his residence to Sevilla and become a Doctor of the University of Flamenco and magazine correspondent Paseo Flamenco.
This journalist is linked to the Festival del Cante de las Minas since 1990.
Kioko Shikaze wanted to move Congress students' cultural exchange between Japan and Spain, with artists return "and has shown through the work audiovisual artists develop their country," taking very their work seriously, reflecting that flamenco is universal and is practiced worldwide. "
Japan was the country that received the 2010 Award Sing Cathedral in its second edition, recognizing the more than three thousand schools where he teaches flamenco with more than 100,000 students.
Years before, in 2002, another Japanese, Yoko Komatsubara, flamenco dance exponent in the Japanese country, acted unionense Festival herald.
Japan is also one of the countries that will become permanent and stable home Festival del Cante de las Minas abroad, because from the Cante de las Minas Foundation are taking steps to get through Las Minas Flamenco Project Tour, which will take place in the coming years.
The morning of the second day of the Congress has completed the documentary "The singing good, it hurts," directed by Ernestina van de Noort and Martin Van Beenen, produced by the Flamenco Biennial NTR Netherlands and the television.
The documentary was filmed in 2010 and released in 2011 in the Netherlands, according to Van de Noort, "is to present flamenco in my country."
In the making of the film, he added, "we traveled to Jerez de la Frontera, where Moraíto Chico served as host, introducing us to his family and teaching his art roots in situ".
However, due to worsening health status and subsequent death of Moraíto, the film remained unfinished in his original approach, but the author acknowledges that "only changed the point of view, not its purpose," which was none other than promoting flamenco in the Netherlands and, "teach something as tight a priori", but "has become a connection with other initiatives that are taking place in my country and that complement the Bienal de Flamenco Countries which Ernestina Low-founder and director, who celebrating its fourth edition and distributed by four locations (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague). "
The afternoon program will be completed with the presentation of José Manuel Gamboa, leading figure of flamenco and flamingo stirrer, under "ontologically. History record Flemish anthologies", and by the flamenco and Suma Flamenca festival director, John Verdú, entitled "The Renaissance of flamenco in Madrid: 1980-2000 and on."
The program of events will close with the presentation of the album Saffron, guitarist and composer Antonio Muñoz Fernández (Bordon official guitarist Mining 1989 International Festival del Cante de las Minas) in the hall of the House of the pinion.
Moreover, the opening day of last Thursday's conference closed with a journalist, writer, and teacher Antonio Parra, on "Flamenco through the novel and travel chronicles: 1850-1930".
Antonio Parra made a tour of the novel and travel chronicles of the XIX and XX, collecting the most relevant pieces of literature, "one of the unavoidable sources for the history of flamenco".
As the same Parra, "in addition to the oral history of flamenco know through the press and foreign travelers coming to Spain in search of an authentic lifestyle and almost savage".
Although, with few exceptions, dyes containing derogatory or pejorative, showing a somewhat distorted reality.
As acknowledged by the speaker, "we know the history of flamenco through antiflamencos themselves."
Authors such as Salvador Rueda and, influenced by it, Ruben Dario, begin to denote the positive aspects of flamenco and prelude to s.
XX as a stage from which it begins to respected and dignified flamenco in literature.
However, thanks to these stories, more or less reliable, "flamenco lifestyle and obtained a wide circulation and opened the door for others to know many will enter."
After the conference, Antonio Parra, was a visit to La Union Mining Park with a flamenco recital Mining Lamp winner last year, Ricardo Fernandez del Moral, in Mina Group Vicenta, which, toured for our songs lifting the audience to its feet at the end of his performance.
Source: Festival del Cante de las Minas
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