FLAMENCO

 

   

    As it is nowadays, flamenco has started its life around the end of 1700 and has then been carried on through a complex consolidating process with numberless influences.  The Analusians have been its meeting point.  Hindus and Greek psalms cross together with Gregorian Persian melodies, funerial Jewish music, African sounds, Castillan romances.

    As it concerns the origin of its name, two theories stand:  one says that many Spanish Jews who had emigrated to Flanders were able to freely express their songs, then called “flamencos”, Flemish.  The second theory stands in favour of the Arabic word felas (fuggitive) and mengu (farmer).

    Dance coordinators:  Raquel Cabrera Palos.  She studied Spanish classical dance in Mexico and flamenco at the  Sevilla school directed by Enrique el Cojo.  Cabrera Palos has subsequently taught at the Sevilla school.  She’s been living in Rome for many years now, teaching among others, at the “Arte Danza” private school as well as at the FAO Staff Coop at FAO of the U.N.  Raquel Cabrera Palos holds many ad hoc seminars.  She started dancing in Sevilla at the Tablao Sevillano group “las rajas” and held flamenco performances in Japan with Yoko Kotzubara.  Yet to be mentioned, her flamenco performances in Rome, i.e. at el Txoko, this being among the first flamenco shows in Rome.

    Eduardo Rocha, national of Nicaragua, has studied in that country before coming to Rome where he work at I.A.L.S. institution. He up-dates his repertory attending workshops in Sevilla.

    Music Coordinator: Maître Sandro Peres.  Maître Peres studied classical guitar at the Andrès Segovia school having Claudio de Angelis as a teacher, and studied flamenco guitar in Andalusia, learning from the best available teachers.  Once arrived in Italy, he has performed the flamenco Soul, its culture and its aesthetics, not merely its folklore, through concerts and shows, poetry and guitar exhibitions.  Maître Peres has played with the best music orchestras, both national and international, in theatres, in television shows and radio broadcasted.  He gives the rhythm to the dancers and he transmits his knowledge acquired with the best Spanish artists.