 |
Love
causes pain
and
tells
fairytales
(Sappho of Lesbos) |
|
|
|
|
Infatuation, desire, self-denial, obsession… all of which is pure chemistry and genetically determined. Is there such a thing called love or are we all the slave of our instincts?
The question about the essence of love is ancient and lies at the origin of the world’s most delightful pieces of art.
In Doce tiempos de amor, the artiste make a number of these art pieces come to life through their dance and music. Texts become songs, images tell tales.
Flamenco does feel the need to portray. It unveils the inner world.
Is there a better form of art than flamenco to charm love, to sing its praise or to curse it?
Doce tiempos de amor – twelve piercing moments ful of passion and tenderness, as dark as jaleousy and as sensual as a kiss in springtime. |
|
Dance: La Greca
Vocals: Ana Gómez
Violin : Ingeborg Cneut
Guitar: Alexander Gavilán
|
| "La Greca", dance |
 |
Katerina Giannakopulou “La Greca” is of Greek origin, but was born in 1982 in Esslingen (Germany). From the age of 5, she took up ballet and folk dancing classes, later followed by jazz dance. In 1999, she started her training at the Contratiempo flamenco school with Tomás Zybura and Cristina Haas in Cologne. As to further develop her extraordinary talent, she also went to Granada, Jerez and Sevilla, where she among others took classes with Ana Kali, Javier Barón, Merche Esmeralda, Matilde Coral, Mercedez Ruiz and Manuel Reyes.
In 2005, the young dancer graduated at the Schule für Bühnentanz & Tanzpädagogik Leverkusen with Karina Maczkowiak. As a member of the Hasseler Showtanzgruppe, she toured in Turkey, Mexico, Greece and Egypt and she danced with the VIDAS group in Toronto, Canada with Esmeralda Enrique. La Greca collaborated with several flamenco ensembles, such as Compania Tomás Zybura and the LOBO Dance Theater (e.g. Flamencofestival Düsseldorf 2003 in Tanzhaus NRW).
Ever since September 2005, she is staying in Sevilla and taking classes with Manuel Betanzo, Adela Campallo and Juan de los Reyes. |
| Ana Gómez, vocals |
 |
Female singer Ana Gómez stems from Arcos de la Frontera, a flamenco centre in the province of Cadiz.
She took up a love for flamenco from early childhood. At the age of only 14 she started to perform in public: at first in her home town, but soon all over Andalucía.
At the Fundación Cristina Heeren de Arte Flamenco in Sevilla, Ana enriched her knowledge of the flamenco repertoire under the guidance of such masters as José de la Tomasa, Paco Taranto and Esperanza Fernandez.
Ana performed in numerous well-known Peñas, as there are: peña Camaron de la Isla (San Fernando), peña de la buleria, peña Antonio Chacon (Jerez), peña Enrique el Mellizo (Cádiz), peña flamenca de Ubrique,
peña flamenca la feminina (Huelva) etc.
She has collaborated with cantaor Nano de Jerez and shared the stage with artists such as Tomasa la Macanita.
Ana Gomez is furthermore an often-invited Saetera (singer during Silent Week). She participated at the semana santa in Sevilla and Arcos de la Frontera and she had her part in recording the CD Saetas y Saeteros. Her powerful and unique voice can also be heard on the CD of Esperanza Fernandez.
In 2003, she won the first prize in the discipline “Alegrias y Cantiñas “at the renowned Cadiz flamenco competition. |
| Alexander Gavilán, guitar |
 |
Flamenco guitar player Alexander Gavilán (°1969) started with his guitar training at the age of 11 with Thomas Seda in Cologne. From 1990 until 1998, he accompanied the dancing classes at the Cologne flamenco school Contratiempo (accompaniment of among others Andrian Galía, Fernando Galán). Furthermore, he perfomed nationally and internationally with several flamenco ensembles (e.g. in Filharmonie Krakow, Die Kuppel in Basel, Pole Pole Festival in Ghent, Tränenpalast Berlin) and he composed music for flamenco shows of the group Amanecer. Alexander made the theatre shows Salome – Theater und Flamenco (’95) and Unter freien Himmeln (’97) and he collaborated in
CD recordings for: Levendas (’99) of the fusion group A Touch of Flamenco and Amanecer Life im Senftöpfchen (2002). In 1998, he moved to Ghent and since then, he has regularly been cooperating with artists from the Belgian flamenco scene. Alexander studied flamenco guitar at the Rotterdam Conservatory with Paco Peña, Ricardo Mendeville and Hans Van Gogh and he obtained his Bachelor in Music in 2004. With a scholarship from the Fund for Stage Arts, he commenced his second-fase-training with a six-month stay in Sevilla. There he studied at the Fundación Cristina Heeren de Arte Flamenco, taking classes with among others Niño de Pura, Miguel Angel Cortés and J.L. Postigo. Since September 2005, Alexander is a teacher in flamenco guitar at the Rotterdam Conservatory. |
| Ingeborg Cneut, violin |
 |
Ingeborg Cneut studied violin / classical music in the class of Pol Malfait and Corrado Bolsi at the Ghent conservatory and in the class of Maarten Veeze at the Maastricht conservatory. In 2003, she additionally obtained a diploma of the course “Argentine Tango” at the conservatory of Rotterdam and she participated in the concert series Maria de Buenos Aires under the direction of Pablo Ziegler (Astor Piazolla Quintet).
She received a scholarship from the Stage Arts Fund and was admitted at the Orquesta Escuela de Tango for a two-year training in tango orchestral arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During her stay in Argentina she made it to second violin of the sexteto Vale Tango under direction of Andres Linetzky, a highly renowned young tango composer and producer from Buenos Aires.
Nowadays, Ingeborg is a violin player in the Veritango orchestra of Alfredo Marcucci, an Argentine bandeonist and producer. She also plays with Zapatango, directed by Carlos Diaz, an Argentine Tango composer, and she regularly performs with Tango-02 and Quinteto Astor as a replacing artist. She formed an own Quinteto de Tango “Rosinante Dancin” and is now a fixed musician in the Zeeland band “Het Bedrijf-vh”, a Dutch musical theatre group. |
|
|
|
