Jerez Flamenco Festival to include 36 Flamenco dancing courses in February and March 2007
The Jerez Flamenco Festival has already scheduled 36 Flamenco dancing courses during next year's festival to be held between February 24th and March 10th 2007. The courses will cover a wide variety of styles and levels and feature some of Flamenco’s greatest masters, many of whom still regularly perform.
Over 800 students from 33 countries took part in these Flamenco dancing courses and workshops last year. The courses are given in Spanish and include attending performances at the Villamarta Theatre.
The courses last for a week and are run in the morning, early afternoon and in the evening. They are structured to cover four levels of ability: initiation, basic, intermediate and advanced. The two first levels cost €280 and the advanced courses €315.
The courses, with a maximum of 25 students per class, range from an introduction to the Alegrias to the techniques and style of the bulerias, the choreography of the polo and the caña, or the techniques and style of the seguiriya using the traditional long “bata de cola” dress.
In total, there will be up to 36 different courses covering alegrías, bulería, farruca, garrotín, guajira, martinete, polo, caña, seguiriya, soleá, tango or the tarantos.
The Festival can provide information about the range of accommodation available in Jerez and the Centro Andaluz de Flamenco (Andaluisan Flamenco Centre), one of the festival backers, will make its installations and resources available: over 75,000 video and book collections, together with sound recordings.
The courses are run at the same time as the Jerez Flamenco Festival, which celebrated its tenth anniversary last year with 27,000 spectators and 130 shows and activities with dance as the underlying theme. It has become a unique benchmark in the world of disseminating Flamenco and aims to help create, train and meeting with other arts.
The Festival is based around the Villamarta Theatre, but its performances are also scattered throughout Jerez, as the activities turn public spaces and the city's outstanding buildings into stages, with an official programme and a season of Flamenco guitar, dancing and singing.
The festival brings together and blends the various styles, while supporting the creative activity of the artists who strive to find new expressive and aesthetic paths for flamenco in the 21st century.
For further information and to sign up for the courses, please contact:
Festival de Jerez / Área Formativa
Fundación Teatro Villamarta
Plaza Romero Martínez, s/n 11402 Jerez (España)
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The Jerez Flamenco Festival has already scheduled 36 Flamenco dancing courses during next year's festival to be held between February 24th and March 10th 2007. The courses will cover a wide variety of styles and levels and feature some of Flamenco’s greatest masters, many of whom still regularly perform. 
In total, there will be up to 36 different courses covering alegrías, bulería, farruca, garrotín, guajira, martinete, polo, caña, seguiriya, soleá, tango or the tarantos. 
The Festival is based around the Villamarta Theatre, but its performances are also scattered throughout Jerez, as the activities turn public spaces and the city's outstanding buildings into stages, with an official programme and a season of Flamenco guitar, dancing and singing.