October 6 - 17: Fiesta, Spanish Festival for Culture & the Arts

Fiesta, Spanish Festival for Culture & the Arts

¡Fiesta! Spanish Festival for Culture and the Arts, is celebrating its
6th year of passionately bringing Spanish culture closer to Manila .
Organized by the Instituto Cervantes, the Spanish Cultural Center in
Manila , the month-long festivities are meant to highlight the
commemoration of Spain 's National Day on October 12. This year's
¡Fiesta! features a new array of dance and music as presented by
leading international artists.

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Modern Dance: Olelés
ÖLELÉS
By Jordi Cortés & Damián Muñoz

ÖLELÉS is a contemporary dance show performed and directed by Jordi
Cortés and Damián Muñoz, two of the current leading Spanish
choreographers.

Date: October 7, 2006
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Romulo Aud., RCBC Plaza
Price: Free entrance

Jordi Cortés, trained at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, has
become one of the most prestigious and innovative dancers on the
Spanish scene, having also developed a successful international
career. In 1998 he formed the artistic group Alta Realitat. Ölelés is
the first artistic collaboration of Jordi Cortés with Damián Muñoz,
another legend of contemporary Spanish dance.
Ölelés, a ballet adaptation of the homonymous novel by Sandor Marai,
has received the Ciudad de Barcelona Award in 2004 for best dance
performance and the Premio de la Feria Internacional de Huesca in 2005
for the best dance proposal.

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Love, Death & Mompou
Amor, muerte y Mompou
By Benildanze

Date: October 6, 2006
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza
Price: Free entrance

Life in Manila is interpreted in this fascinating dance theatre
presentation by Benildanze. Set to the music of the great Catalan
composer Mompou, the show explores the way we live, love and manage to
exist in this great metropolis.

Interpretación de la vida en Manila en este espectáculo de baile a
cargo de Benildanze. Con la música del gran compositor catalán Mompou,
la representación escénica explora la manera en la que vivimos, amamos
y logramos sobrevivir en esta gran metrópoli.

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Ignasi Terraza Trio: Mediterranean Jazz
Mediterranean Jazz
By Ignasi Terraza Trio

Date: October 13, 2006
Time: 7:30 PM
Venue: Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza
Price: Free entrance

Accompanied by Jean P. Derouard in drums and by Pierre Boussaquet in
bass, Spanish pianist Ignasi Terraza reinterprets, in jazz,
compositions from his childhood: traditional Catalonian songs and some
of Mompou's pieces, among others. Mediterranean culture comes to life
through the keys of one of the leading jazz pianists in Spain.

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Aída Gómez: Carmen
Carmen
By Compañía de Aída Gómez

Date: October 17, 2006
Time: 8 PM
Venue: CCP Main Theater

Tickets for Carmen are available at selected National Bookstore
branches, Greenbelt 1 Ticket booth Cinema Lobby, etc.
Call 891-9999 for inquires and reservations.
Special discounts for enrolled students of Instituto Cervantes. Call
526-1482 to 85 for further information

As the main attraction of the 2006 ¡Fiesta! Spanish Festival for
Culture and the Arts, Instituto Cervantes, proudly showcases the Aída
Gómez Flamenco Company's explosive interpretation of the classic opera
Carmen. Catch this one-night only performance at 8:00 pm on October
17, 2006 at the Main Theatre of the Cultural Center of the Philippines
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More than a showcase of Flamenco, the show is a performance of Spanish
Dance. The music is based on the opera Carmen and in the orchestral
suites of Carmen by Georges Bizet, with original music by José Antonio
Rodríguez. As in the case of adaptations for dance based on this
opera, the plot is basically that of the libretto of Bizet's opera:
Carmen, a beautiful gypsy girl who works in a cigar factory seduces
Don José, Sergeant of Dragones. Although at first she flirts with
Escamillo, the popular bullfighter, she falls in love with him in the
end. Out of jealousy, Don José slays Carmen in the bullring while
Escamillo triumphs.

Aída Gómez received the prestigious Premio Nacional de Danza (National
Prize for Dance) in 2004.

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Instituto Cervantes
855 T.M. Kalaw St.
1000 Ermita (To see map click here)
Tel. 63 2 526 12 82 to 85
Fax 63 2 526 14 49
Web site: http://manila.cervantes.es
Email: cenmni@cervantes.es