Baltasar singing bulerías.NIUS
As they handed by way of Jerez, the Three Wise Men didn’t come to offer out sweets, they got here to offer all the things. For this motive, when the Colegio San Juan de Dios requested for a go to for its college students, Baltasar considered asking for assist. And that’s how Juan El Macano, brother of Tomasa La Macanita, turned a trainer of the magician king, educating him to sing and dance for the event.
“I’ve a nephew and a niece at that college, so after they requested me for assist I went with out considering,” says Juan El Macano, “all for the kids.” All for the eighty youngsters who loved a present supply that became fairly a present. Between letter and letter, East and West shook palms por bulerías and even probably the most infamous Christmas carols requested for clapping on an improvised stage.
“I wished a magician king who would give a paw,” says Cristina Ordóñez, head of research and music trainer on the heart, however this Baltasar introduced far more within the bag and even she ended up dancing on stage. Also the scholars of the college, who additionally sang their very own Christmas carols whereas the kings clapped the compass.
A faculty with quite a lot of artwork
Located within the San Juan de Dios neighborhood, the college’s neighbors are artists of the stature of Tomasa La Macanita, José de los Camarones or Jesule de la Tomasa. Flamenco right here is greater than a topic, “it is our roots”, says Cristina Ordóñez. In reality, final 12 months the San Juan de Dios college received the Flamenco award within the Hall of the Junta de Andalucía.
The most flamenco supply of letters on the planet can be onerous to overlook on the San Juan de Dios college. And all due to the lessons that El Macano gave Baltasar… who now sings, dances and offers items. You cannot ask for extra from a magician king.