Male flamenco dancer |
Choreographer |
| Name:Jesús Rafael García Hernández |
| Birth: 1975 Pinos Puente, Granada |
A young flamenco bailaor with a great trajectory behind him. He knows the purest essences of flamenco well, but at the same time he is a daring bailaor with the desire and ability to do new things, especially as a choreographer, the facet in which he claims that he is most comfortable. His first teachers were Mariquilla and Maite Galán, in Granada; he later perfected his style with Alejandro Granados, Ciro, Manolete, El Güito, Antonio Canales and Adrián Galia. Rafael Amargo was able to complete this training with his experience as a solo dancer in the dance companies of Antonio Canales, El Güito, Luisillo, María Rosa, Mario Maya, Rafael Aguilar, La Chunga and in Karine Saporte´s contemporary dance company, as well as during the period he spent in Japan. There, he danced in the prestigious Flamenco tablao, and he was the choreographer for important Japanese dance companies, like Yuirko Yoda´s, Etsuko Saito´s and Chizuko Otsuka´s ones.
With all this baggage (of experience) Rafael Amargo was able to start his own company, Nacencia, in 1997, with which he has shown that he is quick and efficient at creating stage shows and easily strikes up a connection with the audience. The first show he staged himself was El ángel y la garra (1997), with the cooperation of the young bailaora Eva La Yerbabuena. His dancing has also been recognised by critics.
In 1996 he won the First Prize for Dancing in the Concurso Nacional de las Minas de la Unión (Murcia). In 2002, he received two Max Awards for Dramatic Arts: Best Male Dance Performer and Best Choreography for Amargo. The reputation he has earned is such that Rafael Amargo realizes choreographies on order: for the Nuevo Ballet Español, with Rafaela Carrasco and Florencio Campos, and for the opening of the Festival de Teatro Clásico (Classical Theatre Festival) in Mérida in the year 2002, in which he danced with Julio Bocca and María Giménez. He has even imparted flamenco lessons in New York (1997) and in Antonio Canales´ company (2000). |
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