Antonio Canales (flamenco)
Antonio Gómez de los Reyes known as Antonio Canales is a male flamenco dancer and choreographer born in Seville. Biography He was born in Seville in 1961. He began his studies at the Spanish National Ballet. In 1981, signed by Víctor Ullate, he became a solo dancer at the Spanish National Ballet in Madrid. In 1985, he moved to Paris where he joined the company of Maguy Marin. Maguy Marin opened the doors for him to the world of dance on an international level. He has shared the stage with dancers such as Rudolf Nureyev, Maya Plisetskaya, Carla Fracci, Vladimir Vasilev, Fernando Bujones, Peter Schaufuss, Sylvie Guillem, Patrick Dupond and Julio Bocca. In 1992 he set up his own company and he debuted in Bilbao with the choreographies: A Ti, Carmen Amaya and Siempre Flamenco. In January 1992 he participated in the gala Gigantes de la Danza, at the Teatro de los Campo Elíseos, in Paris. The same year on the celebrations of the Fifth Centenary of the discovery of America, he performed at the World Financial Center in New York, at the Holland Festival in the Netherlands and at the Metki Hall in Tokyo. In 1993, he premiered Torero