First published on 18 September 2026, this account describes the work in progress and intentions for BG Método and AL ANDALUS 2.0 at that time.

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So that flamenco can endure

After many years of teaching flamenco in Japan, a question began to haunt me: the class ends, but must everything important that came into being during it disappear too?

How we use the body. How we listen. Compás. Structure. That part of flamenco that cannot be reduced to learning a choreography. For years, I have been searching for ways to convey all of this clearly to Japanese students, without diminishing the depth of what I received from Andalusia.

That is why, at BG Flamenco Academy, I am building something that goes beyond teaching classes. I am organizing the knowledge accumulated through classes, videos, students’ questions, preparations for performances, events, and all these years of experience, so that it can endure and continue to grow.

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From an academy to a system of knowledge

BG Método is my attempt to put into words things I spent a long time conveying through intuition: the body, music, structure, the stage, and autonomy. At the same time, I am creating an archive where classes and videos can become knowledge that people can consult, like a living encyclopedia of BG Flamenco’s teaching work.

I do not want to rationalize flamenco to the point of stripping away its mystery. I want to explain clearly what can be explained, so that I can reach further into precisely what words cannot contain.

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AL ANDALUS 2.0

Behind all of this, AL ANDALUS 2.0 is also taking shape: a system that brings together teaching, method, events, archives, the blog, YouTube, communication, and management. Not as isolated departments, but as parts of a single cultural undertaking.

Artificial intelligence and digital tools are part of that work, but they are not the protagonists. People remain at its heart: what a teacher passes on, what a student discovers, what happens on a stage, and how flamenco can put down roots thousands of kilometers from Andalusia.

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From now on, this book will be written here

In this blog, I do not want to show only finished results. I also want to leave a record of the process: when a new way of teaching emerges, when something said in class opens up a larger idea, what we discover when revisiting old images, how a performance is built, and also when something does not work and needs to be corrected.

Each post will be a chapter in a book that is still being written.

It will be my personal archive, the archive of BG Flamenco Academy, and, at the same time, the story of a life devoted to building a flamenco bridge between Andalusia and Japan.

It is not finished yet. That is precisely why I want to begin telling its story now.

— Benito García

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