The fifth edition of Young Flamenco Suma, celebrated in Teatros del Canal, the festival program Flamenco Suma 2025 is anticipated this week in the Athenaeum of Madrid with a series of previous sessions of presentations and music, and an exhibition that addresses the eternal debate between Tradition and Avant-garde.
La Anselma exhibition hall The Ateneo de Madrid hosts a collection of some of the photographer's work from Wednesday, October 1st to the 29th. Claudia Ruiz Caro has been carried out in the last five years of flamenco (2015-2025) on stage and behind it, seeking naturalness and the aesthetic dignity of the genre.
With the main focus on portraits and the beauty of the staging, the amalgamation of artists that make up the exhibition Tradition & Avant-garde They are a faithful reflection of the flamenco tradition and in turn of the creative explosion that has occurred in recent years, from the present to the precursors of the avant-garde movements that today explore the flamenco as a starting point. The exhibition can be visited free of charge.
«The exhibition Tradition & Vanguard, by Claudia Ruiz Caro, is a faithful reflection of the flamenco tradition and at the same time of the creative explosion that has occurred in recent years, from the present to the precursors of the avant-garde movements that today explore the flamenco as a starting point»
Presentations and music
On the same day of its inauguration, the days dedicated to tradition and avant-garde in the Ateneo de Madrid will begin in the Cátedra Mayor of the Madrid flamenco, which will run for four days, until Saturday, October 4, with the participation of specialists and guitarists, singers, and dancers. Admission is also free until capacity is reached.
The journalist and writer Bald Peter will moderate the opening round table Tradition and Avant-garde, which will feature as members José Luis Ortiz Nuevo, Ángeles Toledano, Agapito Pageo y Angels Castellano. Next, he will act Salvador Gutierrez, with a guitar recital, accompanied by the percussionist Daniel Suarez.
The artist, researcher and editor Peter G. Romero will give the first of the three presentations of these sessions on October 2, El flamenco, before and after flamencoFor this scholar and promoter of avant-garde flamenco projects, the dialectic between tradition and avant-garde "is just one of the founding episodes of the genre, one of those that most strongly contributed to its current configuration." Following his presentation, the Huelva-born singer will perform. Sebastian Cruz, Raul Cantizano (flamenco guitar, electric guitar and hurdy-gurdy) and Marco Serrato (double bass).
The writer, journalist and producer Jose Manuel Gamboa maintains that the flamenco Today's pure music is the result of the decanting of its long history of impurities, avant-garde movements, fashions, and other environmental musical circumstances. He will discuss this in his presentation on October 3rd. What's new, old man? Everything's been invented., at the end of which the duo formed by the young and talented will perform Al-White, singer from Malaga, and The Movie, Ali's guitaristcante.
The closing of the conference will be on Saturday, October 4th by José Luis Ortiz Nuevo, writer and creator of the Biennial of Flamenco from Seville, with Tradition & Avant-garde. The End of the World, where he will argue that "every tradition worth its salt comes directly from the furnace of an avant-garde that ignites it." The session will conclude with the Alicante guitarist Alejandro Hurtado, Miner's Bordón Award in La Unión in 2017.
