This year, Prague and České Budějovice will celebrate International Flamenco Day with a flamenco-balkan night – Cysnews
Flamenco is seen as unique in the world, which is why UNESCO added it to the list of intangible cultural heritage. In its various forms, it is traditionally presented in our country by the Flamenco Day / Día del flamenco festival, which International Flamenco Day will this time celebrate a multi-genre flamenco-Balkan night on November 26, 2022 in Prague at the U Hasičů Theater and a day later on November 27, 2022 in the Small Hall of KD Metropol in České Budějovice. He will bring the new line-up of the renowned Slovak-Czech project Morenito de Triana Trio to one stage together with special guests, the first flamenco singer in Croatia, Nina Ćorić, and the internationally respected Slovenian dancer Mitja Obed. In addition, the program will be introduced in Prague by a flamenco fiesta, i.e. a traditional exhibition of dance academies from all over the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Flamenco festival
This year, the festival organizers dedicate their colleagues who, like many others, are defying a number of problems and issues of recent times:
“This year’s edition is dedicated to all the artists, organizers, promoters, technical experts who did not give up and did not give up in the past 2 years of the pandemic followed by the war in Ukraine. They tirelessly prepare new projects and never stop enriching the world with their art and creative energy,” says festival director Karol Martincová. The Flamenco Day festival must also take place in a more intimate form this year.
Advance ticket sales and detailed information about the festival are available at www.denflamenka.cz.
Flamenco
Flamenco is a very rich genre that was created by the fusion of Spanish folklore, Arabic, Jewish and Roman music. The concert will present all the essential styles for flamenco and connect them with a melodic jazz line. It will prove that the journey of flamenco never ends, it continues to evolve and merge.
Trio Morenito de Triana consists of over-genre pianist Václav Graif and flamenco guitarist Stanislav Kohutek, who achieved instrumental virtuosity in Seville, Spain, where he worked for part of his life. Experienced percussionist Mateo Garriga (Matěj Konečný) will set the trio’s rhythm. The musicians will be joined in Prague by pianist Václav Graif and in České Budějovice by Mateo Gallito (Matúš Kohútek). In the project, the musicians will confirm their rich experience and quality gained during cooperation with Spanish, Cuban and Latin American artists.
Mitya Lunch is a flamenco dancer from Slovenia who collaborates with many world artists. He starts his dance career in Madrid at the famous Amor de Dios Academy. He performs and teaches, for example, in Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Austria, Italy and Bosnia. His work is interdisciplinary, based on pure flamenco and further fusing with modern dance and contemporary art. Nina Ćorić is the first and so far the only recognized flamenco singer in Croatia. He has been active on the music scene since 2010, when in a very short time, thanks to the specific color of his voice and emotional performance, he achieved his first successes at concerts in the cult jazz club Boška Petrović.
Two years later, he founded the International Flamenco Festival in Zagreb and is still its director. For the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Zagreb, she works as a flamenco ambassador in Croatia.
International Flamenco Day
On November 16, 2010, UNESCO added flamenco to its list of intangible cultural heritage and the day was declared International Flamenco Day. The Czech Republic will join this holiday for the seventh time this year.
Saturday 26.11. 2022 U Hasičů Theater, Prague
18:00 Fiesta flamenca – exhibition of academies
20:00 Flamenco-Balkan night: Nina Ćorić & Mitja Obed & Morenito de Triana Trio
Sunday 27.11. 2022 KD Metropol Small Hall, České Budějovice
20:00 Flamenco-Balkan night: Nina Ćorić & Mitja Obed & Morenito de Triana Trio
Photo: Drago Videmšek and Samir Ceric Kovacevic
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