Male flamenco dancer |
Choreographer |
| Name:Joaquín Pedraja Reyes |
| Birth: 1969 Córdoba |
"I am a worker who never stops working and tries to make a living. I take a hundred persons around the world and work my arse off".
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He is currently the most famous dancer worldwide. Although he was already the leading light in the Ballet Nacional when he was twenty years old, he achieved worldwide fame with his show Pasión Gitana, which he brought to over thirty countries. Then everything came at once: cinema, advertising, fashion, a perfume, and even a short relationship with the model Naomi Campbell that brought him onto the pages of celebrity magazines.
He started dancing when he was twelve, encouraged by his uncle, the bailaor Cristóbal Reyes. Three years later he was already part of the Ballet Nacional, travelling all over the world. As soon as he became independent, he came into contact with figures like Maya Plisetskaya, Silvie Guillem and Peter Schauffuss. In 1992, Joaquín Cortés set up his own company, whose first show, Cibayí, was performed in Japan, France, Italy, Venezuela and the United States. However, it was in 1995 that he gained international popularity with Pasión Gitana, a show that filled stadia and was seen by over a million spectators worldwide. From this point onwards, modernity and provocativeness, fusion with other musical forms and wardrobes by Giorgio Armani will become characteristic elements of his shows. Soul and Live came next. The latter show is still travelling from stage to stage.
He made his cinema debut under the direction of Pedro Almodóvar in La flor de mi secreto. He then repeated this experience working under Carlos Saura in Flamenco, in which he dances a farruca with his chest out which earned him as many followers as detractors. In 1999, he gave a performance in the opening ceremony of the athletics world championships in Seville. In 2000, the film Gitano by Manuel Palacios, in which he stars alongside the model Laetitia Casta, had its premiere screening. |
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Complete listing of Joaquín Cortés products: |
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Live at The Royal Albert Hall
 Joaquín Cortés
1 DVD
Año edición: 2003
7 Opinión de los clientes 
Only available in PAL multi-zone format. Before including this DVD in your order, please ensure that your DVD player is compatible with this format. The multi
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Price: US$ 34.86
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Gipsy Passion Band
Joaquín Cortés
1 CD
Año edición: 1997
Joaquín Cortés enters the world of music as the artistic director of his own band, The Gipsy Passion Band, and launches this record in which he composes, direct
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List price: US$ 20.93
Discount: 20%
Price: US$ 16.74
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Soul
Joaquín Cortés
1 CD
Año edición: 2000
4 Opinión de los clientes
All the music from the dancer's third show. A work that has a gypsy soul, as was always going to be the case with an authentic gypsy like Cortés, but which also
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Price: US$ 29.74
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