Born in Palma de Mallorca, he believes in dancing as his best way of expressing himself. Since he was a baby, his grandmother made him sleep singing him por soleá, so his love of flamenco was born from the cradle. At three years old he steps on his first stage.

In 1993, when he was only four years old, he began his training at the hands of

Amapola in Palma de Mallorca. In 1996, at age 7, she trained in classical ballet, Spanish dance and flamenco with professors José Luis Ponce y Concha del Mar, making her first appearances on stage with the show “Bodas de sangre”.

His teachers have been artists of the caliber of Antonio Canales, Farruquito, José Maya or Alfonso Losa. He also trained with dancers Pedro Córdoba, David Paniagua, Nino de los Reyes, Antonio Reyes, Kélian Jiménez, Manuela Carrasco, or with maestro Manolete.

From 2001 to 2008 he moved to Granada to broaden his career and made his debut as part of the flamenco group of the Cueva de Los Tarantos and toured other tablaos, clubs and theaters in the province. In the tablao La Reina Mora he will be the first dancer with one of his great masters: Luis de Luis.

2018: Danced in Fest Flamenco Bozar Brussels.

2018: Bailaor soloist on tour with Las Minas Puerto Flamenco, presenting “Errante” at CBA in Madrid and Puerto Adriano in his hometown.

2016/17/18: Participates as a protagonist in the Flamenco Festival Corral de la Morería.

2016: Solo artist at the El Pozo Flamenco Festival in Madrid.

2016: Festival Flamencos y Mestizos in Sala Berlanga in Madrid, sharing the stage with La Negra.

His restless personality leads him to have behind him the assembly of several own shows:

2019: His latest creation has been “Rapikeando” premiered at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

2016: “Errante“, represented in the Flamenco Festival of Torrelodones and Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid within the Las Minas Flamenco Tour Festival. He appears in that show as a new figure of flamenco, sponsored by Carmen Linares and Juan Valderrama Jr.

2012: “Con nuestro soniquete”, premiered in the Parque de Mar.

2011: “Libre”, represented in Granada, Almería and Casa Blanca (Morocco).

2011: “Sueño de un bailaor”, premiered at the Auditorium of Palma de Mallorca.

2017: Collaborates with the singer Israel Fernández in the Young Flamenco Festival of the Conde Duque of Madrid, sharing the stage with José del Tomate and Nazaret Reyes.

2017: He is invited by Josemi Carmona to participate in the flamenco nights of the Hotel Destino with Mónica Fernández in Ibiza.

2017: Invited to participate in Tribute to Camarón de la Isla in Madrid.

2017/2016: Collaborates as a guest artist of Belén López in the Corral de la Morería and Casa Patas (2015).

2017: Participate in the flashmob created by the Farruco brothers in Puerta del Sol in Madrid to promote “Tr3s Flamenco”.

2017: Collaborates with Pablo Rubén Maldonado in the show “Flamenco en el BackStage” with the singer Ismael de la Rosa, “Bolita”.

2016: He participates with his dance in the tour to present the album of guitarist Amós Lora in Conde Duque.

2015: In the Tablao Casa Patas he dances for the guitar master Tomatito.

2014: He is part of the company of Tito Losada and travels to Japan. He will visit 18 different cities as a solo artist.

2013: He visits the festival of Marseille (France) forming part of the cast of artists with Gabriel de la Tomasa, Nino de los Reyes, Olga Llorente, “El Trini¨, etc.

He shares stage in the city of Helsinki (Finland) with guitarist Antonio Rey.

Visits Hungary as part of Gerardo Núñez’s company, collaborating with artists such as Carmen Cortés and Kélian Jiménez.

2012: Travels Mexico and Germany with the Promesa Flamenca company, visiting the Teatro Degollado.

Visits the tablao Palacio del Flamenco in Barcelona and together with Karime Amaya is part of the group.

2009: Shares poster with Montse Cortés, José Maya, Pepe Luis Carmona, Pepe Habichuela.

Collaborates with Pitingo in the White Night in the city of Córdoba.

Throughout his professional career he has worked for the more important tablaos of Madrid, such as El Corral de la Morería, Villa Rosa, Cardamom, Casa Patas, Corral de la Pacheca, Los Porches and Candela, in which in 2013 they awarded him the prize to the best bailaor together with the dancer Paloma Fantova. And Tablao Las Carboneras.

In 2018 he danced in the tablaos El Cordobés and Los Tarantos de Barcelona.

Born in 1983, in Madrid, in a family of artists. She trained in classical ballet, Bolera school, Spanish and flamenco in the academy of her parents, Santiago de la Quintana and María José Benítez. She complements her training taking classes with teachers such as Isabel Santonja, Merche Esmeralda, “La Tati”, Ciro, Domingo Ortega, Carmela Greco, Beatriz Martín, etc.

In 2000 she began her professional life with the company of Las mil y una noches, dirigida por la familia Losada, with choreography by Antonio Canales and Rafael Estévez. With the show that gave the company its name, she works in renowned festivals and theaters around the world.

Later she moved to Seville to be part of the productions of the Andalusian Dance Center “El café de chinitas” and “El sombrero de tres picos”, directed by José Antonio and represented at important festivals.

Later she works in companies like Rafael Amargo con “Tiempo muerto”; in “Contrastes”, together with Juan Ogalla, Manoli Ríos or Pedro Córdoba; in theaters such as Cirque d’Hivern of Paris, together with Duquende and Chicuelo, and at the Festival of Argelès-sur-Mer with Vicente Amigo.

She participates as a soloist with Daniel Navarro in the opera of “Los Machado” in the Gran de Teatro de Córdoba and in the production of “El mundo por la ventana” by the dance-theater company Bailarinas por los tejados.

From 2004 to the present she combines her performances in companies with her daily work in the best and most important tablaos such as Casa Patas, Las Carboneras, Villa Rosa, Corral de la Morería and Café de Chinitas, in Madrid; El Carmen, Los Tarantos and Cordobés, in Barcelona; and El Flamenco, in Tokyo.

In 2007, she received the prize for the best choreography, along with Guadalupe Torres, for “A miedos, colores” in the choreography contest for Spanish Dance and Flamenco in Madrid.

Later she is part of the company of Pedro Córdoba in the show “Del 2000 y pico” premiered at the Pequeño Gran Vía in Madrid as part of the Original Festival program in 2013.

Antonio Sánchez was born in Madrid in 1984. From his career it can be noted that he started in the world of guitar at an early age with his uncles Paco de Lucía and Ramón de Algeciras, and his cousin Jose María Bandera. From there, he continued studying with Juan Manuel Cañizares.

He began to work in Madrid in some of the most important tablaos as well as in the ballet of Antonio Márquez. He also worked at the tablao in Tokyo (Japan) with Domingo Ortega for six months.

Later, he spent eight months at the Tablao Cordobés, in Barcelona, ​​where he was able to meet and work with some of the best first-rate flamenco artists in dance, singing or guitar.

As a guitarist he has performed in many shows and was the second guitar of the septeto de Paco de Lucía, with whom he toured the world on tour for four years until the death of the maestro in february 2014.

Interview

“The first part of my life with the guitar has been at the flamenco school Amor de Dios in Madrid, which was where I started playing, basically. To play and feel myself guitarist.

»The second part was the step that Paco de Lucía gave me and took place when I went to work with him.

»And in the tablao I feel like at home. Because there’s a lot of love on stage, there’s a lot of quality and it’s like being at home. You feel very grateful and very accomplished».

She began classical dance studies at the age of four in a school in her hometown, El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz). Later on she joined the professional dance conservatory of Cádiz where she completed her intermediate studies in classical and contemporary dance. When she was 17, she began to study flamenco with Natalia Acosta. Soon she was trained with fundamental teachers in her career such as La Lupi and Mercedes Ruiz. At the same time she finishes her higher studies of flamenco dance at the Superior Dance Conservatory of Málaga in the specialty of choreography. She expands her training with teachers such as Yolanda Heredia, Alfonso Losa, Belén López and David Paniagua, among others.

She has been part of companies such as Mercedes Ruiz in the shows “Juncá” and “Tauromagia”; in Juan de Juan’s with “Los sones negros”; the company of Carlos Saura, with “Flamenco hoy”, or that of Rafael Amargo, with “Dionisio. La vid… y mil noches.” She also acts with her family in the show “Casa Ruibal”.

She currently works in different tablaos in Madrid, including Las Carboneras. In 2016 she won the first prize of the IV Villarosa tablao competition.

Interview with Lucía Ruibal.

“For me, the tablao is the daily reward”

“Without a doubt, the most remarkable things in my training have been my two fundamental teachers, who have been Mercedes Ruiz and La Lupi and who I always remember when I get on stage because I learned a lot from both. Those were precious times for me when I discovered a lot of sensations. Mercedes Ruiz and La Lupi, without a doubt.

»I have many anecdotes and most of them are fatal, but perhaps one of the ones that I remember the most was one of the first times I was going to dance. I was going with Mercedes, who had just started studying with her and told me to enter a contest to have the opportunity to dance. I remember that we went to a contest in a town in the Sierra de Granada, which was in a place that took us the same life to arrive and was one of the first times where I danced in public. I remember when I was going to dance, in the first letter of the seguiriya I was going to do, I suddenly started to feel like the floor was falling. With the nerves I had, I did not understand very well what was happening. I kept looking down because I felt the planks were falling. I was losing my balance and then I realized that I had fallen, one of my heels had broken and I was at the other end of the stage. The first, on the forehead, as soon as you start dancing. I had to deal with it and I don’t remember very well how I solved it, but I know that in the end I finished the dance. And I grabbed my heel, dying with shame, and greeted the audience with the heel in my hand. And again back to El Puerto de Santa María. That is an anecdote, among many others, but I am ashamed to share them.

»The tablao for me is the day to day, the daily effort and, above all, also the daily reward. I think it’s a bit like learning that you start from scratch every day. It reminds me a bit of getting up in the morning, there is the bailaor meeting daily. And knowing the others. I think those tablao moments have a lot of authenticity because that is when one really is improvising and is not under the guidelines of something staged, in a show with a choreography in which we are focused on telling something. But in the tablao we are simply transmitting what the guitarist or singer is making us feel, as well as our own colleagues. For me that is the tablao.

»And a before and after in my career was coming to Madrid. Because I think if I hadn’t come to Madrid I wouldn’t have ultimately become a dancer. It was at the moment that I put myself to the test and had to discover what it was really like to be a dancer, to be in the profession with a lot of colleagues. Anyway, I certainly think that was it ».

Born in Sevilla in 1994, she began her dance studies at the age of three and at the age of 8 she entered the Antonio Ruiz Soler professional dance conservatory in Seville. In 2012 she obtained the title in the specialty of Flamenco Dance. In that same year she joined the Andalusian Dance Center (CAD).

In 2013 she began to be part of the dance corps of the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía for three years, under the direction of Rafaela Carrasco, with whom she made national and international tours with the shows “En la memoria del cante“, “Imágenes” (work awarded with El Giraldillo for the best show by the XVIII Flamenco Biennial of Seville) and “Tierra-Lorca Cancionero Popular” (which receives the Giraldillo for the best body of dance for the XVIX Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla).

In May 2015, she received the second prize of the XVI Andalusian Young Flamenco Contest organized by the Provincial Federation of Seville of Flamenco Entities.

It is the following year when she receives the second prize and the mention of the public prize in the V Flamenco Dance Contest of Tablao Villarosa.

She has worked in different tablaos such as Casa Patas and Corral de la Pacheca until in 2017 she joined the Tablao Flamenco Los Gallos of Sevilla.

In 2018 she won the second prize in the flamenco dance contest at Tablao Las Carboneras in Madrid.

She is currently part of the David Coria Company that perform the show “El encuentro” and the company of Rafaela Carrasco where she performs the show “Nacida sombra“.

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Interview Paula Comitre

«For me to dance in a tablao I think it is one of the most difficult challenges»

“In the first place, I think that the most interesting part of my training period, what marked me the most, was when I finished my degree in the conservatory, that I auditioned and was selected to enter the Centro Andaluz de Danza of Sevilla. It was like a high-performance center where 12 people from all over Andalusia were chosen each year, and that’s where I got in touch with great professors who were active. That’s where I learned the Sevillian school of the bata de cola, for example. It was only one year, but very intense, it was every morning. That’s where I began to find the sensations, that year marked me a lot.

»From the professional period I highlight the beginning. At the Andalusian Dance Center four people were invited to audit at the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, whose management had just been assumed by Rafaela Carrrasco. Then, four students of the Andalusian Dance Center were awarded a scholarship to attend the entire creation process of a show. We learned the whole show and, just a month before or so of the premiere, Rafaela told us that she had planned to hire two of us to be part of the cast of the company. We had a time as a test, he was trying out some of us in the choreography and very little before opening he told me that he wanted to count on me to be part of the cast of the ballet. I was hired and first I was a year as an intern. I was from the beginning, we made the premiere and that was the first company I worked with. I spent three years with Rafaela and we did three different shows. The truth is that this period marked me a lot and, for me, where I have learned the most is there. Well, starting in the tablaos has also been very important, but I want to emphasize that beginning that for me was a surprise and an incredible illusion.

»Finally, for me to dance in a tablao I think it is one of the most difficult challenges, and I am in that process. I think that to dance in a tablao you have to be very prepared in all areas, both technically and in the reflexes and in the knowledge of the sing, the guitar, the energy, the group mates. So, for me it is one of the most difficult challenges and I feel very happy to be able to learn and go through different tablaos because I also believe that each place breathes a different energy and I love being able to enrich myself of all that ».