Educational stay in Flamenco Land

For the fifth consecutive year, we intend to organize an international workshop dedicated to the flamenco culture. It is designed for aficionados of all levels, from the very beginners to the most advanced students, as well as professional dancers, singers and musicians. It is open to all, regardless of their nationality.This project is considered as an extension of and a useful complement to Gabriel Da Rocha’s teaching within his school, and is organized by the Aficionados de la Nueva Academia del Flamenco association (ANAF) within the context of the educational events it offers.

It is not a theme trip, but an educational stay with cultural immersion aimed at arousing the curiosity of certain students, while improving others’ understanding and command of this complex and wonderful art.Whilst the teaching of Flamenco in France is not subject to any control, nor protected by any diploma, and regarding the endless number of existing offers, this workshop is designed to be a reference training.

Since most of the audience is not bilingual, it is also the opportunity to get started with or to improve one’s practice of spanish, the language of flamenco. This workshop is organized by the ANAF, an association under French Association Law 1901 registered on June 7^th 2006 at the Paris police headquarter. The ANAF is a non-profit association and was funded on May 19^th 2006 by the students of the Nueva Academia del Flamenco, to whom the teaching method created by Gabriel Da Rocha is of crucial importance. Equally important are its underlying principles: accurate transmission and respect for tradition, classes oriented to the progression and body development of every student, guitar accompaniment for all sessions, training aimed at acquiring a strong technique, as well as an acute sense of rhythm and music. The association operates on the basis of membership fees and thanks to the devotion of volunteers. With its legally-recognized articles of association, the experience of its art director, and the nature of its project, the association offers a safe context, and the best guaranty against the commercialism observed elsewhere.

         The purpose of this educational stay is for homogeneously-divided groups of students (beginners, intermediate, advanced) to achieve concrete goals in each discipline (technical bases, acquisition of the basics, command of the codes, learning a choreography).

            To this end, the idea is to ensure a first-quality training. In this respect, the excellence, aura and fame of the masters – who will specifically get together for the occasion in a prestigious institution – are notorious and undisputable.

         This approach is multidisciplinary (dance, music, singing) and offers a comprehensive program: various disciplines, theoretical approach, films, conferences, and practice. Also optionally available are various workshops: singing, rhythm and palmas, guitar, cajón, castanets, bata de cola (dress with long trail), fin de fiesta por tangos and por bulería, and sevillanas. Each group of dancers should be accompanied by musicians – guitarist and singer – the sine qua none condition for understanding and practicing flamenco dance. This art organizes itself in sequences corresponding to steps of a both plastic and musical dialogue. The idea is for students to discover flamenco through an artistic, as well as a human experience, where listening, exchanging, control, intensity, and improvisation have their place.

Organization

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      1.  Place of workshop :

The famous AMOR DE DIOS academy in Madrid.
Calle Santa Isabél N°5, 1^st floor, 28012 Madrid
Tel: +34 91 360 04 34
Website: www.amordedios.com

2.   Accommodation :

In order to obtain the best conditions for reasonable prices, we contacted and reached an agreement with the following Youth Hostel:
Albergue Mejía Lequerica
Calle de la Mejía Lequerica N°21, 28004 Madrid
Tel : +34 91 593 96 88
Fax : +34 91 593 96 84
email : info@ajmadrid.es
Website: www.ajmadrid.es

For reservations, trainees can contact this hostel directly on our behalf, individually or collectively, or ask us for help for the non-spanish speakers.

 Arrival of the students on July 31^st 2010, in the evening at the latest!

Other accommodation offers and other information are disclosed in the Student Guidebook, available online and printable from the Nueva Academia del Flamenco website.

      3.  Trip :

Since the preferred date and hour of arrival and departure are different for all the students and their accompanying persons, we cannot negotiate group prices with airlines or railway companies, and you are invited to organize your trip by your own means.

4.   Workshop structure and schedule :

Ø Three levels of dance for the main disciplines: beginners 2, intermediate, advanced; technique and choreography. One hour and a half per level over 7 days.

·    Beginners 2 : Adrián GALIA, Tarantos.

·    Intermediate : Manuel LIÑÁN, Soleá por Bulerías.

·    Advanced : La CHINA, Alegrías de Cádiz.

Ø Bata de cola : Pepa MOLINA
 This workshop is dedicated to the specific techniques for bata de cola (dress with long  trail). One hour a day over 7 days.

Ø   Fin de Fiesta : La TATI
Two levels of fin de fiesta por Tangos(beginners / intermediate) and por Bulerias (intermediate / advanced), the objective being not to learn a choreography, but to acquire the basics to be independent in a fiesta while respecting the song and the rhythm. One hour a day over 7 days.

Ø   Sevillanas : Loli SABARIEGO
One hour a day over 7 days.

Ø Initiation to castanets : Loli SABARIEGO.
 Workshop aiming at discovering and initiating oneself to practicing  castanets. One hour a day over 7 days.

Ø  Cante and Flamencology : El FALO
In this workshop, a time will be dedicated to the practice of singing, as an initiation to make the importance of cante in flamenco dance more obvious to everyone. Another time will be performed as a lecture-debate on flamencology, for each student to increase their knowledge of the palo studied in their level. One hour a day over 7 days.

Ø   Ritmo y Palmas (hand clapping) : Adrian GALIA
Technique created by Adrian GALIA, all palos will be studied. One hour a day over 7 days.

Ø   Guitar workshop : El ENTRI and Jean-Baptiste MARINO.
These classes will provide technique studying aiming at accompanying the singer and dancer. Three hours a day over 7 days including two hours of class with El ENTRI and one hour of rehearsal directed by Jean-Baptiste MARINO.

Ø   Cajón : Enrique TERRON
This new workshop offers the opportunity to initiate the trainees, musicians and dancers, to this percussion instrument of Peruvian origin that belongs to the Flamenco modes of expression for over twenty years. One hour a day over 7 days.

Workshop Planning

Prices

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