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In the first phase of the competitions they have participated 15 dancers and dancers, who have joined 8 groups of dancing Japanese schools do not participate in the selection for the unionense Festival and Ken Nagata, winner of the contest that awards annual ANIF .
Success in Japan convening of the selection tests for the International Festival del Cante de las Minas 2015 Of the more than 100 registered artists today have acted 28, although only 15 dancers and dancers aspire to have a place next August La Union.
In addition, the public has crowded facilities Nakano Zero Hall Theatre Tokyo, hours before opening.
Japanese participants were from different parts of the country, and have made his art above the tables in the Joint Theater jury of the delegation of the Foundation Cante de las Minas and experts chosen by the Nippon Association of Flamenco, ANIF.
The Spanish representatives are the Coordinator of the Foundation Cante de las Minas, Manuel José Navarro Jiménez, and coach Juan Carlos Albaladejo Montoro and writer and journalist, National Prize of Flamenco and regular contributor to the Festival, Juan Vergillos.
They have highlighted the quality of Japanese artists who have presented, and their great desire to get a place for competitions 55 Festival del Cante de las Minas.
For his part, President of ANIF, Jiro Hamada, expressed his "deep appreciation of Heart" Foundation to Cante de las Minas to bring your event to Japan, and added that "this collaboration is very important because it represents a new door-cultural collaboration between the two countries, thanks to flamenco ".
Hamada also explained that so far, which has more popularity in Japan is flamenco dancing, but with the visit of Cante de las Minas can grow the interest of artists and fans by singing and guitar.
At 15 official contestants were joined today 8 groups of Japanese dance academies, such as "Cheers Studio," "Candela Studio", "School Hiromi Fatamura" or the "Company Yoko Kaji".
Not surprisingly, the enormous appeal of Flemish art in China makes more than three thousand academies devoted to his teaching, and that the same are studying more than one hundred thousand Japanese citizens.
Along with dance groups also acted Ken Nagata, winner of the annual contest organized by ANIF flamenco in Japan.
Saturday morning will be the second semifinal, in which they act, nothing more and nothing less than 33 artists, guitarists and dancers, as well as 2 other previous winners of the contest ANIF in Japan.
In addition, around 20:30 pm (local time in Tokyo), will take place on official presentation of the Festival del Cante de las Minas in Japan, which will intervene Foundation Coordinator Cante de las Minas, José Manuel Navarro Jiménez.
As a guest artist will perform on guitar, musician, and composer Spanish Cañizares winning prestigious awards in our country, as "National Guitar Award 1982" and "Music Award 2008".
Cañizares was the first and only flamenco guitarist invited by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
In its European Concert, Cañizares played "Concierto de Aranjuez" with this Orchestra, conducted by Sir.
Simon Rattle at the Royal Theatre.
He also collaborated with Paco de Lucia for 10 years, and has also shared stages and recordings with great atristas as Enrique Morente, Camarón de la Isla, Serrat, Alejandro Sanz, Mauricio Sotelo, Leo Brower, John Paul Jones, Peter Gabriel, Michael Brecker , Mike Stern, Al Di Meola, Peter Erskine and The Chieftains, among many others.
Alongside Cañizares also perform at the gala official presentation two of the previous winners of the contest organized ANIF in Japan every year: the singing act 1997 winner, Taka Ishizuka, and dancing, the winner in 2001, Shiro Ijuin.
Source: Agencias
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