The California Academy of Tauromaquia in Alpine, California (www.bullfightschool.com), offers weekend workshops for US$400, with live-animal training in Mexico, but not lodging. Training sessions, with lodging, in central Mexico cost US$1,400 for four days; in Spain, it's US$2,200 for five days; prices do not include air fare.
The Santa Maria Bullfighting School (www.fredrenk.com) on a bull ranch in Santa Elena, Texas, offers five-day sessions year- round for US$1,150. Lodging, included in the price, is in bunk-houses used by matadors who perform for paying customers in nonlethal "bloodless" bullfights in the ranch's bullring during the months of January, February and March and on some holidays.
The Dennis Borba School of Bullfighting (www.dennisborba.com) offers weekend classes March 31 through October on a bull ranch in Escalon, California, for US$300, not including lodging.
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