The festival is completed with the performance of great tasters and flamenco singers, an appointment that will be presented by the flamencologist Juan Ortega Chacón.

The festival will begin at 22.30, at the Agustín Rodríguez School.

Channel Andalucia Flamenco to spread this art worldwide

It has presented the channel Andalucia Flamenco, a multimedia platform RTVA 24 hours a day flamenco. The presentation of this new thematic channel maximum accessibility has been carried out in Andujar (Jaen), where the Andalusian Radio Television tonight will receive the award Rafael Romero ‘El Gallina’.

This new channel can be viewed online on its official website:
www.canalandaluciaflamenco.tv

It also has numerous radio and audiovisual content to be accessed easily. News of flamenco and treasured Flemish RTVA material has accumulated over 27 years of experience.

Amor de Dios, the flamenco center in Madrid where Ms. Barrio, 50, and her husband, Martín Santangelo, 51, met and trained, was below ground. She relished its smell: humid.

“Going down the stairs, you felt part of a secret,” she said. You were “isolated from the rest of the city.”

The idea was to inspire, and to take flamenco back to its roots, said Mr. Santangelo, the founder and artistic director of Noche Flamenca. “In Granada, people danced flamenco in caves.”

In Madrid, Ms. Barrio added, the rich “have a private party, after the big party,” where flamenco dancers perform in wine cellars.

The West Park Presbyterian Church, a Romanesque Revival building on West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, where Ms. Barrio now teaches flamenco, has a similar feel. It has been covered with scaffolding for years. It has a side door that is hard to find, and a cavernous sanctuary

More info: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/nyregion/a-renowned-dance-couple-keeps-flamencos-flame-burning-in-new-york.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0