The Fairgrounds will host the Festival of Choreographic Groupings this Sunday
The Carnival 2025 stage, located at the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Fairgrounds, will host tomorrow, Sunday 9, at 5:00 p.m., the Festival de Agrupaciones Coreográficas (Choreographic Group Festival). This year the event will feature the participation of the groups Compañía La Vica, Crew of Dreams, Wild Dance, Crazy Dancer, Ibaute, Club Deportivo Andreína Acosta, Odali, Onys Escuela de Baile, Star Dance, Moana, LS Tribu, V Dance, Loli Pérez, Nameless Project, Patronato Cultural Arona, Orbidal Mambo and Ballet Dance, which will take the stage in that order after the draw held last December.
More than 1,000 dancers will star in this contest, in which the members of the groups offer the public the choreographies they have prepared for the occasion during the last months and their outstanding costumes made for this carnival edition.
At the end of the festival will be known the winners of the second prize, third, second and first for best costume and best interpretation. The jury in presentation will be composed of María del Mar Martorell Mensugo, fashion stylist; Javier Aguilar Afonso, fashion designer of the firm Ananas Wear; and Cristo Rodríguez Torres, technician of clothing, fashion and leather.
The interpretation group will be composed of Leila Rodríguez Hernández, choreographer, dancer and gymnast, dance and rhythmic gymnastics teacher; Cristofer Fernández Arteaga, international dancer and choreographer, organizer of the Tenerife Latin Festival, dance teacher and Head of Studies at the MM Danza School; María Vianney Morales González, choreographer and modern dance teacher; María Odinokova, professional dancer of international classical ballet companies; and Daniel Jesús García Gómez, choreographer and dancer of urban dances and member of the Escena Ballroom de España.
The 4,238 tickets for the final of adult murgas offered for sale on the Internet are sold out.
The 4,238 tickets for the final of the adult murgas contest put on sale today by the Autonomous Organism of Festivities and Recreational Activities (OAFAR) of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife were sold out an hour and a half after activating this service, at 9:00 am, through the platform entradascarnavaltenerife.es. The purchase process was completed without incident.
Of the total number of tickets issued through the Internet, 3,038 are exclusively for the final of the contest, while the remaining 1,200 correspond to the vouchers for the three phases and the final of the contest, which were sold in their entirety an hour and a half after the beginning of their telematic distribution.
OAFAR will distribute the rest of the tickets among the murgas participating in the Carnival 2025 contest, while the seats that complete the capacity are distributed, upon payment of their amount, among the Carnival's sponsors and collaborators. All the tickets that make up the total capacity of the murgas final are therefore paid, without exception.
The final of this contest will take place on Friday, February 14, at 8:30 p.m., on the stage of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Fairgrounds and will feature the performances of the groups with the highest scores in the three previous phases.
The rest of the competitions that make up the program of Carnival 2025 have also had a good pace of sales on the first day, remembering that the galas of adult and child queens will go on sale from tomorrow Thursday, January 30, at 9:00 am online. Once again this year, tickets for the choreography contest have been sold out, as well as the third phase of the adult murgas contest.
On sale at the box office
The issuance of tickets at the ticket offices of the Fairgrounds will begin days before the contest of children's murgas, which will begin on February 7, from 10:00 to 13:00 hours and from 17:00 to 20:00 hours. On days when competitions and galas take place, the opening hours will be maintained until approximately the end of the event.
In the case of the Gala of the Elderly, access will be by invitation, given its free nature, which will be distributed on the date of celebration, Wednesday, February 19, in a space enabled and properly signposted outside the fairgrounds.
The 4,238 tickets for the final of adult murgas offered for sale on the Internet are sold out.
The 4,238 tickets for the final of the adult murgas contest put on sale today by the Autonomous Organism of Festivities and Recreational Activities (OAFAR) of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife were sold out an hour and a half after activating this service, at 9:00 am, through the platform entradascarnavaltenerife.es. The purchase process was completed without incident.
Of the total number of tickets issued through the Internet, 3,038 are exclusively for the final of the contest, while the remaining 1,200 correspond to the vouchers for the three phases and the final of the contest, which were sold in their entirety an hour and a half after the beginning of their telematic distribution.
OAFAR will distribute the rest of the tickets among the murgas participating in the Carnival 2025 contest, while the seats that complete the capacity are distributed, upon payment of their amount, among the Carnival's sponsors and collaborators. All the tickets that make up the total capacity of the murgas final are therefore paid, without exception.
The final of this contest will take place on Friday, February 14, at 8:30 p.m., on the stage of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Fairgrounds and will feature the performances of the groups with the highest scores in the three previous phases.
The rest of the competitions that make up the program of Carnival 2025 have also had a good pace of sales on the first day, remembering that the galas of adult and child queens will go on sale from tomorrow Thursday, January 30, at 9:00 am online. Once again this year, tickets for the choreography contest have been sold out, as well as the third phase of the adult murgas contest.
On sale at the box office
The issuance of tickets at the ticket offices of the Fairgrounds will begin days before the contest of children's murgas, which will begin on February 7, from 10:00 to 13:00 hours and from 17:00 to 20:00 hours. On days when competitions and galas take place, the opening hours will be maintained until approximately the end of the event.
In the case of the Gala of the Elderly, access will be by invitation, given its free nature, which will be distributed on the date of celebration, Wednesday, February 19, in a space enabled and properly signposted outside the fairgrounds.
The 4,238 tickets for the final of adult murgas offered for sale on the Internet are sold out.
The 4,238 tickets for the final of the adult murgas contest put on sale today by the Autonomous Organism of Festivities and Recreational Activities (OAFAR) of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife were sold out an hour and a half after activating this service, at 9:00 am, through the platform entradascarnavaltenerife.es. The purchase process was completed without incident.
Of the total number of tickets issued through the Internet, 3,038 are exclusively for the final of the contest, while the remaining 1,200 correspond to the vouchers for the three phases and the final of the contest, which were sold in their entirety an hour and a half after the beginning of their telematic distribution.
OAFAR will distribute the rest of the tickets among the murgas participating in the Carnival 2025 contest, while the seats that complete the capacity are distributed, upon payment of their amount, among the Carnival's sponsors and collaborators. All the tickets that make up the total capacity of the murgas final are therefore paid, without exception.
The final of this contest will take place on Friday, February 14, at 8:30 p.m., on the stage of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Fairgrounds and will feature the performances of the groups with the highest scores in the three previous phases.
The rest of the competitions that make up the program of Carnival 2025 have also had a good pace of sales on the first day, remembering that the galas of adult and child queens will go on sale from tomorrow Thursday, January 30, at 9:00 am online. Once again this year, tickets for the choreography contest have been sold out, as well as the third phase of the adult murgas contest.
On sale at the box office
The issuance of tickets at the ticket offices of the Fairgrounds will begin days before the contest of children's murgas, which will begin on February 7, from 10:00 to 13:00 hours and from 17:00 to 20:00 hours. On days when competitions and galas take place, the opening hours will be maintained until approximately the end of the event.
In the case of the Gala of the Elderly, access will be by invitation, given its free nature, which will be distributed on the date of celebration, Wednesday, February 19, in a space enabled and properly signposted outside the fairgrounds.
A grand opening gala will welcome the Carnival of Santa Cruz 2025 this Friday.
The City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, through the Autonomous Organism of Festivities and Recreational Activities (OAFAR), will celebrate this Friday, January 31, in the Paseo Teniente Francisco Grandi Giraud -in front of Plaza España-, the opening ceremony of Carnival 2025. There will be 1,063 seats for the public, who will have access to the seats by invitation, which can be collected on a first-come, first-served basis at the same access door on the day of the event, until full capacity is reached. Access will be open from 8:30 p.m. onwards.
The mayor of the city, José Manuel Bermúdez, stressed the importance of an event "that in recent years has had a huge reception by the carnival and carnival and where we will meet all the candidates for queens, in an edition that is generating a lot of expectation.
For his part, the councilman of Fiestas, Javier Caraballero, wanted to thank "the involvement of candidates, designers, sponsors and families throughout these months and I am convinced that they will put the level of this year very high".
Wendy Fuentes, once again this year, will be in charge of conducting this first date of the Carnival of the Secrets of Africa, which will begin at 9:30 pm and will last just over an hour. This will be the starting signal of the edition, through which will pass the 34 aspiring Carnival Queen in its three modalities, to know, in that act, the order in which they will participate in their contests.
To enliven this gala will be the participation of the queens of Carnival 2024, Afro-Canarian artists and the comparsas of the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In addition, at this event, the presenters of the various acts of the edition will be unveiled, which will be part of a show that will start with the presence of the queens of 2024 and with an overture that will immerse the audience, from the first minute, in the Secrets of Africa, with performances as significant as that of Marieme Abdoulaye.
Under the direction of Jep Meléndez, the event will be broadcast live on Radio Televisión Canaria for the entire archipelago.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife promotes the World's Best Carnival at FITUR 2025
The City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, through the Autonomous Organization of Festivities and Recreational Activities (OAFAR), has taken the Carnival of Santa Cruz to Madrid, starring in the opening and closing of one of the most international events in the country: Wanderlust. The councilman of Festivities, Javier Caraballero, accompanied the queen of Carnival 2024, Corina Mrazek, her court of honor, the Bahitiare Bahia comparsa and the Maquinaria Band, to this internationally renowned promotional show.
Wanderlust is a meeting between professionals from the world of tourism in the center of Madrid that features music, entertainment and gastronomy, and has been held every year since 2017 coinciding with FITUR. This promotional event has chosen the Carnival of Santa Cruz as the undisputed protagonist of the night, giving this Festival of International Tourist Interest the value it has.
For Caraballero, being present at this event means "taking another step forward in the internationalization and promotion of our festival, making known its charms and the traditions that make us unique by the hand of the protagonists of the Carnival", to which he added that he was pleasantly surprised by "the great admiration that there is beyond our borders about our carnival and the great expectation that it generates".
This morning, the Queen of Carnival 2024, as well as the ladies of honor, accompanied the councilman of Festivities to the stand of the Canary Islands, where they will be present throughout the day to publicize the Carnival and distributing promotional flyers with the programming of this new edition 2025, which starts on January 31 with the opening gala.