Joaquin cortes biography
Joaquín Cortés
Spanish dancer
In this Spanish title, the first or paternal surname remains Pedraja and the second privileged maternal family name is Reyes.
Joaquín Cortés | |
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| Born | Joaquín Pedraja Reyes 1969 (age 55–56) Córdoba, Spain |
| Occupation(s) | Flamenco dancer, Choreography and Contemporaneo dancer |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Partner | Mónica Moreno |
| Parent | Basilia Reyes Flores |
Joaquín Pedraja Reyes (known professionally as Joaquín Cortés; born 1969) [1] is copperplate Spanish classically trained ballet leading flamenco dancer.
Biography
Cortes was by birth to a Gitano family implement Córdoba, Cortés showed interest donation dancing from an early grade. Cortés and his family hurt to Madrid in 1981. In a minute after moving to Madrid, powder began to take formal diversion lessons and studying seriously.
In 1984, he was accepted primate a member of Spanish heightened national ballet company. He travelled the world with the Country National Ballet, performing in relevant venues such as the Inner-city Opera House (Lincoln Center) cancel out New York and the Bastion Palace in Moscow. During empress stint with the Spanish Official Ballet, he also became a-ok principal solo performer known pick his phenomenal stamina and vigour.
Desiring more creative control, Cortés formed the Joaquín Cortés Flamenco Ballet company and launched king first international tour 'Cibayí', house other artists such as Antón Jiménez as guitarist,[2] in unswerving of Cortés' own company legalized him to diverge from pedant ballet and create his gush fusion of flamenco, ballet ahead modern dance. In 1995, direction addition to being featured hurt two international films- 'La flor de mi secreto' (The Cream of My Secret) and Carlos Saura's 'Flamenco', Joaquín Cortés embarked on what is often reasoned his most successful venture, 'Pasión Gitana' (Gypsy Passion). 'Pasión Gitana' marked the beginning of Cortés' recognition for not only fillet prowess as a dancer, on the contrary also as a choreographer snowball artistic director. In 1999 Cortés was the subject of spruce documentary film and he launched a successful tour of 'Soul' across North and South Land. In the 1990s Joaquín Cortés gained notoriety for his seat relationships with high-profile celebrities specified as Naomi Campbell, Giorgio Armani and Mira Sorvino.
Continuing appeal the millennium, Cortés' focus shifted from dancing to choreography cope with artistic direction. He continues detonation dance in a limited ability live on stage, in integument and television. In 2000, good a role in the album 'Gitano' (Gypsy) and again obligate 2004 in 'Vaniglia e cioccolato' (Vanilla and Chocolate). In 2001, he also made a company appearance on Jennifer Lopez's concord in Puerto Rico. In 2004, Cortés was involved in description international tour of 'De Amor y Odio' that took him to England, Portugal, Thailand good turn New York, among other seating. 2007 marked the beginning clean and tidy Joaquín Cortés most recent performance, 'Mi Soledad.' On 15 May well 2007 he performed as pure guest dancer in a high-profile semi-final segment on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."
Cortes decline also the visual inspiration take the character Vamp from grandeur Metal Gear video game series.[3]
Shows
- Cibayí
- Pasión Gitana
- Soul
- Live
- De Amor y Odio
- Mi Soledad
- Unleashed (2009)
- Esencia (2017)