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Las Minas Flamenco Tour already has secured his next destination in the world and it will not be other than Tokyo, capital of Japan, which will host the celebration for the first time outside the borders of Spain, contests dance, guitar and singing the Festival del Cante de las Minas de La Unión.
The event, to be held at Nakano Zero Hall Theater of the Japanese capital over the days of 22, 23 and 24 next August, carried out jointly by the Foundation Cante de las Minas, through his arm International, Las Minas Flamenco Tour, and the Nippon Association of Flamenco (ANIF), founded in 1990 and today consolidated as the main institution of the nation dedicated to the study, teaching and dissemination of flamenco.
The expectation that has raised the fair has meant that have already enrolled in the same over a hundred of Japanese artists.
The main attraction for the same lies, in addition to obtaining the corresponding trophies that the winners of the Japanese edition also achieve their automatic pass to the final series of the next edition of the Festival del Cante de las Minas in our country, to be held in August 2015 in the town of La Union Murcia.
A mixed jury of leading Japanese experts, provided by ANIF and important Spanish flamenco experts sent by the Foundation Cante de las Minas, will be responsible to ascertain who are the best in each category.
In addition, during the closing of the contest, there will be a dance exhibition by Lucía Álvarez "La Piñona" Desplante Trophy winner in the 2011 edition of the Festival del Cante de las Minas, who with her flamenco will offer a varied repertoire of the best Spanish flamenco dance.
This was announced this morning in Madrid, at the press conference held at the legendary tablao "Barnyard of the Moorish", home of the Festival of La Union in the capital of Spain, Ambassador of Japan in Spain, Satoru Satoh, Special Ambassador for the Year Dual Spain-Japan, Eduardo Aznar, Institutional Director General Mark Spain, Ignacio García-Valdecasas, and the Mayor of La Union and Executive Chairman of the Cante, Francisco Bernabé de las Minas Foundation.
The High Representative Mark Spain has highlighted the extraordinary character of flamenco as vehicle for the dissemination of Spanish culture throughout the world, recalling in this regard that the Festival of La Union is the only event of this music that has the status of being official image our country abroad.
Satoru Satoh, who has promised a return visit to La Union this summer to enjoy the festival, reminded the huge appeal of Flemish art for his countrymen, as evidenced by the fact that there are over three thousand schools dedicated to his teaching and that the same are studying more than one hundred thousand Japanese citizens.
In this regard, the ambassador also put forward that it is already finalizing the next edition of Las Minas Flamenco Tour in Japan, in this case the hand Maruwa Foundation, and focused exclusively on dance competitions.
The event took place on March 15, 2015 and will be under the coordination of the great teacher and choreographer Yoko Komatsubara, who was herald as the Festival de las Minas in 2002.
Finally, Francisco Bernabé, has stressed that with this initiative, one of the major goals of this project was born internationalization is true: take the mining competition to Japan's third largest economy in the world and undoubtedly the country where, after Spain, our music is more appreciated for excellence.
The chief executive of the Foundation Cante de las Minas also also wanted to thank explicitly the support of all the sponsors, both in Japan and in our nation, make it possible for this event to occur, especially emphasizing the role in this regard by Turespaña and Las Minas Flamenco Tour, real architects of this initiative.
Finally, the unionense mayor has emphasized the important tourist projection that will mean for your city, for the Region of Murcia Spain and to the development of this Festival, and which have already applied for accreditation the most important Japanese media truly concerned about the fact that the Festival del Cante de las Minas will select their most important values ​​flamingos next year to compete against the best in La Union.
Source: Agencias
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