Every Fall and Spring semesters the Semester In Spain programs offers flamenco classes for the students. The classes are taught by Sylvia Santoro a professional dancer from Barcelona who now lives in Sevilla with her husband. Sylvia teaches the class a certain type of flamenco dance called sevillanas which just about anyone born in Sevilla grows up learning.
The classes take place on every Monday night in the library at the school and the semester of classes end with a Fiesta de Flamenco where the girls borrow flamenco dresses and the boys dress their best to put on a show for the rest of the school. This year the fiesta took place at La Caridad a convalescent home for elderly men.
Enjoy these videos of the two different groups of students!
Those who attend the Spring semester then get to then use their newly acquired skill to dance sevillanas with the locals at the annual Feria, a week long festival of eating, drinking, and dancing sevillanas.
