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The dancer and choreographer Rafael Amargo transformed one of the most essential poems of Federico García Lorca into a work of dance. He created the choreography for one of the most innovative flamenco shows of nowadays. Its main characteristic is unquestionably the fusion of both music and dance, of pure flamenco with contemporary trends such as Jazz and Latin music. This hybrid character –fusion– went on to become a constant feature of subsequent flamenco shows. Amargo went even further when he gave his work an audiovisual montage created by the filmmaker Juan Esterlich to complement the dance performance.
The show won several prizes, including particularly the Max Prize for Scenic Arts for the best performance by Rafael Amargo.

Our school will offer the show “Poeta en Nueva York” during July and August as a part of the weekly schools cultural programme. Students have the unique opportunity to enjoy this Flamenco performance whose technical and artistic level is enormous at a perfect setting , the Generalife Gardens of the Alhambra.

It will be held from the 17th – 20th June 2015. The closing and awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 20th.

Projections and the closing and awards ceremony are performed in Alhambra Theatre. The workshops will be held at various film schools and cultural centres of Granada.

When a group of people joined four years ago to show their work, they never imagined today that they would start organizing the 2015 edition of the VI International Short Film Festival Opera Prima.

“Opera Prima en Corto" is a festival of short films from audiovisual and film schools, where a meeting of directors, jury members and teachers of schools is generated. Workshops and competitive activities are free. The prizes are always film training, resources and tools for the feelmakers. 

For more information check the Festival Website.

Every year, thousands of visitors come from all over Spain to experience this holiday. According to legend, an alabaster cross was erected in 1625 in the district of San Lazaro, and all of the locals celebrated its commemoration by singing and dancing around it.



The tradition continued in the most well-known districts of Granada, the Albaicin and Realejo; children began to build small altars with a cross and decorate them with pottery and copper objects.

Some of these traditions live on to this day. One of the traditions that still remains is the placing somewhere in the decorations of the Cross of an apple with a pair of scissors inserted into it; this is done so as to try to avoid any criticism that might be made of the decoration of the Cross.

On this feast day, it is common to find all over Granada crosses that are decorated with carnations. Neighbourhood associations, guilds, schools, even town halls create their own cross. The atmosphere is unmatched. The Granadines, adults and children alike, dressed in flamenco costumes, walk around the city visiting various crosses and, in this way, celebrate this important feast of Granada.

During the Festival we will be able to enjoy several of the great works of music history: all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas played by nine Spanish pianists; the depths and lyricism of the sonatas for violin and piano performed by the violinist Anna-Sophie Mutter; Mahler’s Symphony no. 1 conducted by Eliahu Inbal with the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE; Sibelius’ Symphony no. 2 with the Paris Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste; Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody at the hands of Joaquin Achúcarro, and Bruch’s violin concert performed by the French violinist Renaud Capuçon. And to cap the cycle of symphony concerts, the Paris Orchestra will play three beautiful pieces which symbolise the French 20th century repertoire conducted by Josep Pons.

Also featuring on the Festival’s programme is music from the Renaissance. There is baroque music, the classical guitar of the master Pepe Romero and the flamenco guitar played by Vicente Amigo and the young Juan Habichuela “Nieto”, the minimalist music of Wim Mertens and music sung in pursuit of a better world by Noa with the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada. The flamenco voice of Estrella Morente returns to the Palace of Charles V in all its profundity.

The International Festival of Music and Dance of Granada also has commissioned La Fura dels Baus to produce an up-to-date version of El Amor Brujo.

Music and verse appear in the hands of two outstanding actors: John Malkovich will premiere his theatrical version of Beethoven’s Egmont with the Orchester Wiener Akademie and, on the fifth anniversary of the birth Saint Teresa of Jesus, the Spanish actress Blanca Portillo will star in a poetry night in the Court of the Myrtles reciting poems by the saint to the accompaniment of music of the period.

But the Festival is not only music. It is dance too, and choreography. We will enjoy the great works of classical dance with the Vienna Opera Ballet. Liam Scarlett will present a new version of Carmen with a choreography danced by the Norwegian National Ballet. Víctor Ullate will bring us his “dance of life”, Samsara, looking eastwards, while Antonio Najarro and the Spanish National Ballet return to the Generalife Theatre with Spanish and flamenco dance.

We will also experience the avant-garde production by Sasha Waltz & Guests who has choreographed The German Requiem by Brahms, one of the most representative works in the history of European music. Performed by the Berlin Radio Choir, it offers a special vision of this work, known as the Human Requiem, in which the audience is immersed in and surrounded by the music of Brahms.

For further information visit: www.granadafestival.org or download the Programme as an PDF

PROGRAMME
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Wednesday, 11.03.2015
Teatro Isabel La Católica / 21.00 h
Coro de Las butacas vacías
Alycristango (tango-danza)
Proyecto Tamgú (sexteto, voz y pareja de baile)

Thursday, 12.03.2015
Teatro Isabel La Católica / 21.00 h
Francina Pedrini / Martín Beligni (tango-danza)
Eliana Viola / Ezequiel Torres (tango-danza)
Camila Moreno Ricca / David Magné (tango-danza)
Javier Díaz González / Guido Lago (guitarra/armónica)
Tabaré Leyton (voz/guitarra)

Friday, 13.03.2015
Teatro Isabel La Católica / 21.00 h
Fabian Carbone / Mirta Álvarez (bandoneón/guitarra)
Ballet MalaJunta (5 couples)
Patricia Barone y Javier González (voz/guitarra)

Saturday, 14.03.2015
Teatro Isabel La Católica / 21.00 h
Ecos de la 10ª Cumbre Mundial del Tango – Zárate 2015
Sandra Márquez (voz/guitarra/armónica)
Paola Jean Jean / Nicolás Cobos (tango-danza)
Carlos Habiague (voz/orquesta/tango-danza)

Sunday, 15.03.2015
Teatro Isabel La Católica / 20.00 h
Luis Filipelli (voz/guitarra)
Francina Pedrini / Martín Beligni (tango-danza)
Carlos Guevara / Debora Godoy (tango-danza)
Gabriela Rey (voz/piano)
Homenaje al Maestro José Colangelo: José Colangelo en concierto

It is located just 32 kilometres from Granada by road and with good communications. The ski season starts generally at the beginning of December and goes until May. The resort has about 2,500 hectares of skiable area and a capacity for almost 30,000 skiers per hour. It is the greatest skiable vertical drop in Spain. Sierra Nevada ski resort offers excellent conditions to enjoy the ski slopes with more sunny days than anywhere else in Europe.

The festival will begin on the 20th of November with the projection of the film ¡Qué par de locos!’ by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hard. From the 27 to 30 of November there will be several other shows in Teatro Isabel la Católica and in the Congress Palace. 

For further information visit: www.festivalhocuspocus.com

Venues where events take place include the King Carlos V Palace, the open-air theatre in the Generalife Gardens, in El Patio de los Arrayanes in the heart of the Alhambra and various other of Granada’s historic churches and buildings.

For further information regarding the programme visit th Festival website: www.eltango.com

The Federico García Lorca Flamenco cycle has been organized by the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the Alhambra since 2002. This year the Alhambra presents "Duende", a show with the dancers Fuensanta La Moneta, Manuel Liñán and many guest artists.

The show is a homage to the poet Federico García Lorca and to Manuel de Falla and Enrique Morente.

The show is inspired by the music of Manuel de Falla and Enrique Morente and is based on the values set down by Federico García Lorca in his famous lecture on the Cante Jondo.

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