"Nights of duende and moon" is the title of an animated feature film that combines cinema, music, illustration and animation to tell an episode of great significance in the culture of our country and which, in 2022, will be 100 years old: the First Cante Jondo Contest. This event took place in the Plaza de los Aljibes, in the Alhambra in Granada, in 1922. This animation is also based on a cartoon that Antonio López Sancho made of the artists and the public gathered in the Contest.
The presentation takes place within the framework of the 71st edition of the Granada International Music and Dance Festival and has the support of Acción Cultural Española.
The Contest, promoted and organized by Manuel de Falla -whose death is 75 years old in 2021-, by Federico García Lorca and by Miguel Cerón, was an initiative that started from the former's deep concern for the disappearance of old flamenco or cante Andalusian primitive, and was proposed as a rescue plan to which, despite the obstacles of certain sectors of society, numerous supporters from Spanish and international artists were added who did not hesitate to get actively involved, such as Zuloaga decorating the stage or the painter Manuel Ángel Ortiz with the design of the poster.
The success of the Contest was such that flamenco came to be considered an indisputable cultural heritage and, even today, it is considered the key event for Andalusian primitive cante to cease to be considered a very minor and marginal art.
The presentation takes place within the framework of the 71st edition of the Granada International Music and Dance Festival and has the support of Acción Cultural Española.
The Contest, promoted and organized by Manuel de Falla -whose death is 75 years old in 2021-, by Federico García Lorca and by Miguel Cerón, was an initiative that started from the former's deep concern for the disappearance of old flamenco or cante Andalusian primitive, and was proposed as a rescue plan to which, despite the obstacles of certain sectors of society, numerous supporters from Spanish and international artists were added who did not hesitate to get actively involved, such as Zuloaga decorating the stage or the painter Manuel Ángel Ortiz with the design of the poster.
The success of the Contest was such that flamenco came to be considered an indisputable cultural heritage and, even today, it is considered the key event for Andalusian primitive cante to cease to be considered a very minor and marginal art.