The Minister of Culture and Sports of the Andalusian Government, Patricia of the Well, the rector of the Pablo de Olavide University, Francisco Oliva Blazquez, and the dancer Eva Yerbabuena They presented on Monday, April 7, the Chair of Flamenco from Pablo de Olavide University at an event held at the headquarters of the Andalusian Institute of FlamencoThe presentation of this new initiative has included the performance of Child of Gines, accompanied on guitar by Jose Luis Medina.
Del Pozo has highlighted that "the launch of this chair represents a further step in the implementation of the Andalusian Law of Flamenco”. “A legal framework,” commented the Minister of Culture, “that includes the obligation to promote knowledge of this form of Andalusian expression in schools, as well as to promote the creation of chairs of this kind in collaboration with universities. flamenco to promote, and above all, encourage research into this art.”
The councilor has announced that Granada-born flamenco dancer Eva Yerbabuena will assume the artistic direction of this initiative. “Eva Yerbabuena is one of the most prominent creators on the flamenco scene.” flamenco, as evidenced by the recent awarding of the UK Olivier Dance Award to the artist, undoubtedly one of the most important recognitions in the performing arts, which places her as a key figure in the international projection of art jondo. A projection that he has always known how to combine with his informative side.”
Likewise, Del Pozo has highlighted that this joint chair of the University and the regional administration presents "as a novelty" the adhesion to it of nine municipalities in the province of Seville –Utrera, Lebrija, Mairena del Alcor, La Puebla de Cazalla, Tomares, Carmona, Los Palacios y Villafranca, Alcalá de Guadaíra and Las Cabezas de San Juan–, whose mayors and councilors wanted to support this proposal by attending the presentation event.
«Directed at an academic level by Fernando Ruiz Morales, professor of Social Anthropology, the chair was created with the objective of promoting the implementation of an annual program of activities on the flamenco in the areas of training, research, dissemination, knowledge transfer, and cultural and artistic creation"
"Our aim is that the municipalities included in this extension of the chair become temporary headquarters of this chair, while promoting the initiatives of flamenco of each locality,” Del Pozo indicated.
University institutional chairs are "a great tool for making stable collaboration between the university and institutional worlds a reality. They aim to forge strategic relationships through which both parties benefit from the results of research, training, and knowledge transfer," Del Pozo noted.
For his part, the rector of Pablo de Olavide has pointed out that "today we complete an excellent initiative, after a lot of work, nothing less than bringing the flamenco to the University, the great cultural heritage of our land. With training, research and dissemination, from the Pablo de Olavide University we will show university youth the vitality of the Flamenco".
Directed at an academic level by Fernando Ruiz Morales, professor of Social Anthropology, the chair was created with the aim of promoting the implementation of an annual program of activities on the flamenco in the areas of training, research, dissemination, knowledge transfer, and cultural and artistic creation.
This chair is not the first collaboration between the Ministry of Culture and Sport and the Pablo de Olavide University in promoting flamenco. In fact, since 2023 both institutions have been jointly organizing the Specialist Course in Cultural Management Flamenco at the headquarters of the Andalusian Institute of FlamencoA course that has already attracted a total of fifty students, the maximum allowed, in the two editions held so far.
