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Massive turnout in the second round of Cante de las Minas in Japan (23/08/2014)

Nakano Zero Hall Theater of the Japanese capital has also hosted the Official Presentation of the International Festival del Cante de las Minas, a ceremony with the participation of the Spanish guitarist Cañizares.

The Cante de las Minas again demonstrates its convening as the pageant world's leading flamenco.

Theatre facilities Nakano Zero Hall in Tokyo have been small to host the second phase of the contest of song, dance and guitar, valid to qualify directly for the 55th Festival unionense.

Nothing more and nothing less than 33 artists have competed today in an intense day full of emotions.

The mixed jury of the Spanish delegation and experts provided by the Nippon Association of Flamenco (ANIF) has had an afternoon of hard work analyzing the performances of each of the applicants.

Been 10 guitarists and 23 dancers and Japanese dancers who have gone on stage before large crowds that filled the large auditorium, with capacity for over 1,500 people.

But, in addition to a test, today has also taken place the official presentation of the Festival del Cante de las Minas in Japan, an event in which participated the Foundation Coordinator Cante de las Minas, Manuel José Navarro Jimenez, who It has highlighted the great work being done to promote ANIF flamenco in Japan.

Navarro noted the pleasant surprise of all the Spanish delegation for the high quality of the artists and the great respect he shows the public towards this art, and recalled that the prize will be the winners will be passed directly to the semifinals of unionense Festival , 2015.

For his part, President of ANIF, Jiro Hamada, has returned to thank the Union for attending this event in Tokyo, and has ensured that the visit of the most important flamenco festival in the world has triggered the interest of Japanese lovers Flamingo.

Artistic Presentation Official note of this has put the Spanish guitarist Cañizares, who has delighted the Japanese public with a large sample of flamenco guitar, accompanied by two local artists singing acted winner in 1997 contest that calls ANIF , Taka Ishizuka, and dancing, the winner of the same contest in 2001, Shiro Ijuin.

Cañizares has praised the initiative of the International Festival del Cante de las Minas to be present in Japan, the second country after Spain in terms of followers of flamenco.

The guitarist, who has spent 20 years visiting China, stressed that the alliance between ANIF and Cante de las Minas is very important because it will help to disseminate the flamenco and Spanish culture beyond our borders.

The guitarist also thanked the Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Unión tribute this year has yielded to Paco de Lucia, with whom he shared the stage for 10 years.

Sunday morning will be the third and final day of the contest del Cante de las Minas in Japan.

Again it will be an intense afternoon as participate in testing 32 other applicants, with the news that the 24 dancers and eight singers dancers, specialty hitherto had no representative be added at this time.

Source: Agencias

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