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History

History


The School of Arts (Ing. Ricardo Urquijo Beltrán) opened its doors on November 6, 1989, as a response of the municipal government to the need to address the artistic formation of the children and young people of Mazatlán.

It is located between Constitución and Carnaval streets in the Historic Center of Mazatlan.

In its facilities near the Angela Peralta Theater, Bachelor’s degrees in Contemporary Dance, Music and Singing are taught and classical ballet, folk dance, film appreciation, plastic arts and theater classes are offered.

They are artistic companies of the School of Arts: the Ballet Classical Company, the Sinaloan Folkloric Ballet, the Camerata Mazatlán, the Angela Peralta Choir, the Guillermo Sarabia Choir, Delfos Danza Contemporánea, the resident company of the Ángela Peralta Theater; the theater group Iguana Roja, the String Orchestra, the Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Sinfoneta Mazatlán.

 

HISTORY

In its beginnings, the School of Arts taught classes in two buildings of the historic center leased for that purpose. It was conformed by workshops of classical ballet, painting, sculpture and the School of Music “Enrique Patrón de Rueda”.

In the old German haberdashery (in the streets Belisario Domínguez and Mariano Escobedo), the lessons of painting and sculpture were developed, and in Sixto Osuna street No. 13, music and classical ballet classes were given.

In 1990 the singing discipline was integrated and the formation of the Angela Peralta Choir and the Youth Symphony Orchestra began; tasks that crystallized two years later.

In 1993, the schools of artistic activities, dependent on the other Department of Cultural Diffusion, were concentrated next to the Angela Peralta Theater.

There was born the School of Arts that opened the workshops of folkloric ballet, plastic arts, theater, cinema and literature.

The children’s choirs and the “Ángela Peralta”, the Regional Band and the Youth Symphony Orchestra emerged.

The institutional consolidation led to the professionalization of the School of Music and the creation of the Professional School of Contemporary Dance. Subsequently, the professional level was formalized in the Singing School.

Currently three degrees are taught at the School of Arts of Mazatlan: Bachelor of Singing, Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Contemporary Dance.

The permanent participation of the School of Arts in cultural and social events, the high professional level of the teaching staff that teaches in the bachelor degrees, and its excellent academic level, place it among the best institutions of artistic education in the region.