La Chair of FlamencoAndalusian Folklore and Studies of Jerez, in collaboration with the Jerez City Council, has presented the cycle Nights of San Juan 2025, the second edition of this initiative which aims to pay tribute to one of the founders of the entity, the late John of the Silver.
The program has been presented in the Hotel Casa Palacio Maria Luisa, which will host two of the planned conferences, and has included the participation of the municipal delegate for Culture, Francisco zurita, and the members of the Chair Angelita Gómez, Juan Zarzuela, Manuel Naranjo and its president Fran Pereira.
Francisco Zurita congratulated the Chair "for this wonderful initiative" and praised "its work to continue working for the flamenco, because we are talking about an institution that has been key in the defense of art since 1958 jondo".
He also emphasized that this cycle "relies on public-private collaboration, which is fundamental to any government action that allows us to achieve major goals, such as, I hope, becoming the Capital of Culture in 2031."
The cycle, whose poster has been designed by Fdez Estudio, will consist of four activities that will take place every Thursday in June. The first two will be held at the Hotel Casa Palacio María Luisa, which will host the conference on June 5th, starting at 20:XNUMX p.m. and with free admission. Making the Americas: Andalusian dance companies and flamencoin the 1940s-1960s, led by the doctor in flamenco Carmen Penelope PulpónAnd on June 12, also at the same time, the presentation Curro Terremoto, the beginning of a saga, which will be in charge of Fernando Ruiz Morales y Fernando Fernández Escudero.
El June 19 at 20:XNUMX p.m., the cycle will be moved to the new La Gotera de la Azotea Theater, located on Molino de Viento Street, where the illustrated conference will take place Stamping, in which the dancer and choreographer Rafael This time and journalist Fran Pereira will delve into the figure of this Jerez-born artist. The event will also feature a stage section where, led by the flamenco dancer Yoel Vargas and the guitarist Claudia Villanueva, will recover some of Estampío's own choreographies.
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The Nights of San Juan will end on Thursday, June 26 with the premiere in Jerez of the documentary Antonio Mairena, the root of cante, presented at the last Seville Biennial and directed by Paco Millan and a Más TV Online production. Its screening, which will take place in the Sala Compañía starting at 19.30:XNUMX p.m., will delve deeper into the Mairena-born singer through the eyes of a series of scholars and artists.
Fran Pereira, president of the Chair, thanked the “Hotel Casa María Luisa, the Teatro La Gotera de la Azotea and the Jerez City Council for their willingness to launch this cycle”, in addition to thanking sponsors such as Williams & Humbert y Beiman Clinics.
Regarding the cycle, he highlighted "the fact of recovering two important figures of the flamenco from Jerez, figures unknown to many people such as Curro Earthquake, brother of Fernando and the first of the saga, and Juan Sánchez Valencia 'The Stamp', a dancer with enormous personality who was one of the great names of Jerez dance along with Juana La Macarrona.”
National Awards 2025
During the press conference, Francisco Zurita and Fran Pereira announced the date of the National Awards gala. Flamenco, organized by the Chair of Flamencology since 1964 and this year, after its recovery in 2023, it will be held again in Jerez.
Thus, the event will take place next November 8th across Atalaya Museums with the presence of the recognized artists. This is the 27th edition of these awards, which have been received over several decades by many of the greatest artists. flamencos of history.
The City Council has shown its commitment to the implementation of this initiative "which enhances the flamenco from Jerez and which continues to enjoy enormous prestige within this art,” concluded Francisco Zurita.
