In the organizer's words:
An entertaining dance performance with castanets in 5 pictures with the flamenco dancer Tomás Zybura.
With his heart on his sleeve and his favorite instrument in his hands, the dancer and director of the flamenco school in Cologne "Contratiempo" leads with fiery passion through his new sonorous program about the magic of castanets.
Image 1: The scout / title 'Maria' / Tárrega Image 2: Once across the pond / title Guajira Image 3: The lust of the north / title 'Preludium VI en Re minor' or 'Badinerie' / Bach Image 4 / Something for the heart / title 'Goyescas' / Granados Image 5 / The lust of the south / title 'Sevillanas' To the artist:
Learned dances: flamenco, ballet, concert castanets, dance improvisation and dance composition In 1996 he founded the flamenco center Contratiempo together with the dancer Cristina Haas and has been running the studio ever since.
He has realized his dream of creating an institution in Cologne in which flamenco is practiced as an art form of music and dance and is constantly developing it further. Tomás is a qualified stage dancer, he studied dance at the 'Institutfür Bühnentanz', Musikhochschule Köln, where he was comprehensively trained in classical dance, modern dance, Spanish dance, dance composition, music and dance theory. Permanent engagements as a dancer have taken him to the 'Deutsche Oper am Rhein', Düsseldorf, the 'Ballet Teatro Español' and the 'Teatro de Danza Española', Madrid.
He has toured the USA, Germany, Spain, Italy and Poland. He has been working as a freelance flamenco dancer, choreographer and dance teacher since 1990 and has since performed in many flamenco formations, theater productions and TV formats.
In addition to his classes in Contratiempo, he gives workshops throughout Germany. Tomás is a dancer with heart and soul who never stops learning. He was able to realize his childhood dream of becoming a flamenco dancer and it fills him with great joy to pass on his knowledge and experience to others.
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