{"id":1052,"date":"2020-02-26T09:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2020-02-26T09:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:38:54","slug":"send-three-or-four-pence-were-going-to-a-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2020\/02\/26\/send-three-or-four-pence-were-going-to-a-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"SEND THREE OR FOUR PENCE, WE ARE GOING TO A DANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SEND\nREINFORCEMENTS, WE\u00b4RE GOING TO ADVANCE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the Insular Table of Culture<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Present at a recent meeting about publicity and arts communications here on Lanzarote was The Councillor of The Insular Table of Culture, Alberto Aguiar, and technical and political representatives of the municipalities of Har\u00eda, Tinajo, Arrecife, T\u00edas, Yaiza and San Bartolom\u00e9. all across the arts understand that details will be issued shortly announcing the launch of a circuit of visual arts exhibitions and another series of performances around the island by choirs and municipal bands of Lanzarote. The final calendar of dates and places will be agreed at specific technical tables to be held in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is already known that the proposed touring\nexhibitions of visual arts will include collections called Categoric Portrait\nand The Great History of Art on a first tour of municipal galleries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the new programming proposals for the coming\nmonths, the Bureau discussed the holding of training actions, such as\nconferences and workshops, to improve professionalization and cultural\nmanagement. These will cover recent changes in the administration of Music,\nTheatre and Dance 2020 and the identification of island circuits dependent under\nthe guidance of Government of The Canary Islands. The details of these changes\nwere specified at the meeting so that all Lanzarote municipalities are able to\nmeet the new criteria required on application for participation in such events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This could help ensure a more uniform standard of\npublicity and presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason we try to highlight in advance as much as\npossible of the arts and culture calendar is because even although the contents\nof the event might seem to be of only parochial interest to those born and bred\nhere on the island, the quality is often so high that would be appreciated by\nany audience, however cosmopolitan. We feel sure there are plenty of new\nEnglish-speaking residents like ourselves who would find much to enjoy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is, of course, the time of year for the carnival\nprocessions that seem to parade in each town of the island. We will be visiting\nArrecife to witness Monday\u00b4s procession on 24th<\/sup> February and will be\nback there later in the week for \u00b4gran quema de la sardinas del carnaval\n2020\u00b4!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\ntheatre that carries the name of El Salinero there will be a performance of the\nplay Siete Hombres Buenos on 28th<\/sup> February and admission is only ten\neuros. This play considers human characteristics and why some lead and others\nof us follow. Check out the theatre web site or follow Miguel\u00b4s what\u00b4s on link\non Lanzarote Information web site to see a wide range of exciting performances\nscheduled at this venue over the next three months or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few\ndays later, dramatic-arts workshops look at similar issues in Disobedient Art\n& Education at Cic El Almacen from 5th<\/sup> to 7th<\/sup> March.\nThis venue stages concerts and houses collections by explorative artists like\nsculptor Rigoberto Camacho who has an exhibition, Sincrentismo, there until 25th<\/sup>\nApril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maximum Ensemble<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

On March 7th<\/sup> your all across the arts team will be returning to Sal\u00f3n Indieras\u00a0Ayuntamiento de T\u00edas, to hear M\u00e1ximum Ensemble<\/a>, a quartet concert for 15 euros. This is actually the event that has produced this mild protest piece of writing ! The show was advertised on Lanzarote Information on-line but when we went to the venue, we were sent all round the town to other buildings but ended up back full circle at the venue. Nobody at the box office knew anything about a concert in that building that was, after all, only a week away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eventually Maigret Marguerita, our\nprivate detective, found some information on a web site we had never heard of\nand we thus leanred not only of this concert but of several more listed for\nlater in the year. My point is that nobody seems to know or at least certainly\nno English person seems to know, of this web site. !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rochdale Music Society
Pelleas Ensemble<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We do, already know, thanks to the diligence of our classical music correspondent in the UK; Graham Marshall,  that on that same day of 7th<\/sup> March there will be a performance by Pelleas Ensemle as part of the 40th<\/sup> birthday celebrations of Rochdale Music Society. This will take place at Heywood Civic Hall. Graham has reviewed previous concerts in this series, and his works on the Society\u00b4s web site are always worth a read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What makes the\nconvoluted trails taken by snail and electronic mail and the anti-social media,\nis that sometimes, as we\u00b4re struggling to locate a venue or information about\nan event here on Lanzarote we receive tons of information about events\nsomewhere else in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma Decent, for\ninstance, is not only a formidable poet in the UK but also a master exponent of\nthe art of communication. Wherever she gives readings or delivers workshops she\ncollects group contact details, so because I was on the Weaving Words mailing\nlist for that Rochdale group more than five years ago, I receive all Emma\u00b4s\npostings, such as her most recent communique about a writing day retreat she is\nrunning on 14th<\/sup> March at Todfellows Hall in Todmorden. So, here is\nhow proper communication might work. I urge you to check with Emma, via\nfacebook or on her web site, or through the venue, or even through weaving\nwords in Rochdale for details of the event. Then take yourself along there.\nEmma is always thought provoking and I have no doubt that you will not only\nswell the numbers at the event but will also produce some good and fulfilling\nwork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over here on\nthat day we  will be chasing more music,\nwhen on 14th<\/sup> March,  <\/sup>Orquesta\nBarroca de Tenerife perform at Teatro V\u00edctor Fern\u00e1ndez Gopar \u201cEl Salinero\u201d\n(subject to quarantine decisions that might have to be made.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will\nbe music of a very different kind on 19th\nMarch when Lemes and Infante play at Sala Bu\u00f1uel del CIC El Almac\u00e9n in the\nCiclo de Jazz short series of events.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The duo formed by Alexis Lemes\nand Javier Infante, is the result of the merger of two musicians who, starting\nfrom an island root, work in the constant search for their own language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attracted and influenced by the\nphilosophy of the prestigious ECM record label, the work of Infante and Lemes\npermanently oscillates between aural beauty, melodic counterpoint and exciting\nimprovisations. This music, in short, combines contemporary language with jazz\nand roots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this\noccasion, Lemes and Infante are accompanied by Javier Colina, one of the most\nrecognized bass players on the international scene, highlighting his work with\nTete Montoliu, Chucho Vald\u00e9s, (who also gives his own concert on March 20th<\/sup>\nat Teatro El Salinero in Arrecife), Jerry Gonz\u00e1lez, Tomatito, Pepe Habichuela,\nDiego El Cigala or Enrique Morente.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another good reason for attending any arts events you can is that so\noften the quality of the venue is as mind blowing as the art you will see and\nhear. That is certainly true when you attend a concert in Cueva de los Verdes.\nYou follow guides with torches along a fifty yard path cut into the cave floor,\nlit by colourful but subdued lighting to take comfortable seats around an\nexquisite stage. We will be doing that on March\n21st to hear a piano recital by Luis Fernando P\u00e9rez<\/a> for \u20ac22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the same evening there is a production of El Sueno De Cesar which we would\nalso love to see at Teatro Tias for only six euros. El Sue\u00f1o\nde C\u00e9sar is a children’s play in which the characters travel through the\nartistic universe of the great painter and sculptor C\u00e9sar Manrique. Despite the\nthreat of the diabolical titan Timanfaya to be erased from the map, Tamboril\nand Lenguado, two sketches of the imaginary of Lanzarote, persuade the artist\nC\u00e9sar Manrique to materialize pictorial works inspired by natural motifs of the\nisland. Timanfaya does not entrust nature to man, but Manrique fights for\ncommunion between the two.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be a\njazz concert at 1.00 pm on March 22nd<\/sup> when Tecenla play at the  El Grifo Bodego- It is always advisable to\ntry to visit the venue in the two or three weeks beforehand to secure tickets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, if you truly do seek magic in the arts,\nthen there is really no need to search beyond Teatro V\u00edctor Fern\u00e1ndez Gopar \u201cEl\nSalinero\u201d, where Jorge Blass will be performing a magic show later in the\nevening on 22nd<\/sup> March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blass, the most international\nSpanish illusionist, accepts the challenge of reinventing his magic and\npresents live revolutionary effects. This will be an innovative production that\nhas as a common thread the ability of the human being to invent extraordinary\nthings.  Invention has a creative staging\nin which Jorge will use elements of the 21st century; a 3D printer that clones people,\ndrones flying through the air, the formula of invisibility finally materialized\nand other technologies of the future that will serve Jorge to leave his audience\nspeechless.  His assistants on stage, a\nrobot and a drone, will generate laughter and wonder as the audience consider\nwhat \u00b4life\u00b4 would mean to a robot that is connected to the Internet and can\n“google” everything?  This show\nis for all audiences that reinvents the current magic with an interactive\nproposal with its viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We return to\nmusic on March 26TH<\/sup> to hear Lorca\u00b4s Spanish songs that so influenced\nLeonard Cohen. The concert entitled, Mariola Membrives takes place in Cic El\nAlmacen and tickets are only ten euroes each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorca, Spanish Songs, released by\nKaronte in March 2019 with the special collaboration of guitarist Marc Ribot,\nwas considered one of the albums of that year by critics and the specialized\npress. The repertoire for this live presentation is formed by the popular songs\nthat Lorca himself recorded on piano with the voice of Argentinita, turning\ninto authentic classics such as “Anda jaleo”, “La Tarara”,\n“Los cuatro muleros” and “Zorongo gitano” although, on this\noccasion, Mariola offers us a renewed reading of them. To do this Mariola\nMembrives has created a powerful live band with some of the best exponents of\nrock, jazz and national flamenco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Cic El Almac\u00e9n he will be\naccompanied by the electric guitar of Javier Pedreira (Luz Casal, Tomasito,\nQuique Gonz\u00e1lez…) and the trombone by Vicent P\u00e9rez (Perico Sambeat, Voro\nGarc\u00eda, David Pastor Chris Cheek…), to offer us one of the most exciting new\nlook at Lorca and his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following\nday we can enjoy a taste of a different kind of traditional Spanish music, also\nbeing contemporised, by The Flamenco Jazz All Stars on 27th\nMarch at 8.30 pm, in another concert under the \nCiclo de Jazz umbrella at Teatro V\u00edctor Fern\u00e1ndez Gopar \u201cEl Salinero\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vicent Bru<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Even from as far ahead as April, there are plenty of events beckoning us. Vicente Bru is a musician we have seen before as he and a female vocalist gave us \u00b4antique music\u00b4 some while ago in Yorkshire, and after the show Vicent gave his captivated audience a long and loving talk about the replicated ancient clavichord he had been playing. On April 4th<\/sup> Vicent Bru takes to Sal\u00f3n Indieras Ayuntamiento de T\u00edas, a harpsichord concert for 15 euros admission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later that month\non April 17th<\/sup> The Hayriders will be one of various \u00b4pop\u00b4groups\u00b4\nperforming free shows throughout the day as part of The Big Bopper Jamboree in\nPeurto Del Carmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact April is\nalready looking like a very busy month, with The Levitants performing at El\nGrifo Bodego on 19th<\/sup> April and with April 21st<\/sup> being a\ncelebration by the LBGT community proclaiming Yaiza Simply Love in performances\nthroughout the town throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. George\u00b4s Day\ndoes not go forgotten, either, as on April 25th<\/sup> there will be a full\nday of appropriate musical celebrations on Plaza Varedero in Puerta Del Carmen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller details\nof these day long activities can be found on Miguel\u00b4s what\u00b4s on columns here on\nLanzarote Information or on the Cabildo on line web site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That evening of\nApril 25th also brings us a concert at\nCueva de los Verdes. Nostalgia by Tr\u00edo\nRodin is  \u20ac22 for admission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tr\u00edo Rodin is\none of the most internationally renowned young chamber music bands. It started\nin 2011 in Utrecht, aiming to come up with a common project and three different\npersonalities. Acclaimed by critics for their expressive strength and their\ncommunicative performances with the audiences, Tr\u00edo Rodin has been unanimously awarded at several national and\ninternational competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nCueva de los Verdes Auditorium concert will be a metaphorical journey around\ncountries such as Spain (eastern cultures and the gypsy influence of\nthe \u201cFive Gypsy Dances\u201d by Turina, and the romanticism of the \u201cBarcarola\u201d by Teobaldo Power), Lithuania (with the\npiece \u201cSong and\nDance\u201d by Senderovas, with different\ncontrasts and moods), Argentina (with Piazzolla\u2019s New Tango part of \u201cOblivion\u201d and \u201cDeath of an Angel\u201d), and the US\n(an exciting visit to Broadway with \u201cCaf\u00e9 Music\u201d by Schoenfield, and the highly\nrenowned \u201cWest Side Story\u201d by Bernstein). This will be unique non stop dancing experience, an\noriginal and unbeatable programme, delivered as Part of the Festival de M\u00fasica\nCueva de los Verdes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That all leads us to go\ngathering buds in May, and rich pickings they will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 2nd<\/sup> May\nCristina Santonica will be giving a concert of arias and songs at Indieras Hall\nin Tias in a promotion by the Nino Diaz Foundation. Tickets for this are only\n15 euros. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone  00 34 928 524 260<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 9th May we can hear Voz en Contra for only  \u20ac22 in Cueva de los Verdes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The third edition of the Cueva de los Verdes Music Festival comes to an end with Voz en Contra, with Reinier Elizarde \u201cEl Negr\u00f3n\u201d, a renowned current jazz double bass player, and Marina Lled\u00f3, a Hispano-Brazilian singer, musician and composer. They combine forces on an interesting and exotic musical journey between Brazil, Cuba and their inner worlds through their own compositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voz\nen Contra invites us on a\njourney through latin jazz, world music and a combination of styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ndouble bass, together with the versatility of both artists on stage, as well as\nhow they take over the space with such two different instruments, leaves audiences in awe, taking them to a\nwhole new level of musical reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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venue for Rochdale Light Orchestra<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Almost before we know where we are we have followed Sidetracks and Detours to where June is bustin\u00b4out all over with a plethora of concerts. As a fine example of how to get news out early around the world we offer you Graham Marshall, our occasional correspondent on classical music from the UK. Graham is tireless in spreading the word about the classical music he loves, posting on the Rochdale Music Society, promoting their concerts through our all across the arts office in the UK and even inviting us to adapt his reviews for our purposes here on this blog. Graham has already told his social media followers that on June 3rd at St. Michael\u00b4s Church in Bamford in Rochdale at 8.00 pm there will be a concert by The Rochdale light orchestra, playing music by Eric Coates, Frederick Curzon, Beethoven, Graham Marshall and others. Admission is free but there will be a retiring collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are\nthen back to the Indieras Hall in Tias for a concert by musician\nRadavan Caballin on 13th<\/sup> June at 8.30 pm. This is another promotion\nby Nino Diaz Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazingly, we then step into the\nsecond half of 2020 with a concert at The Arts Centre Lanzarote, a venue that\nwe have never previously visited. On 4th<\/sup> July, The Absit Duo, an act\nwe have never previously seen will be entertaining us, in yet another\nproduction by Nino Diaz Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So,\nwhilst we offer our grateful thanks to all those who supply us with news of\nthese events, we also urge anyone reading these pages to let us know of news,\ninterviews, previews or reviews of happenings in their own arts organisations\nfrom all across the arts.. Simply drop us an e mail with your news from\nanywhere in the world to normanwarwick22@yahoo.com<\/a> and we will try\nto spread the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Web sites, e-mails, social media, tv and radio are wonderful but there is nothing like telling a mate for spreading the word. It has to a bit clearer, though, than the \u00a8Chinese Whispers\u00b4 conveyed in our headings for this piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pass It On.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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