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Antonio Gades

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Antonio Gades © Eugenia Eiriz. Archivo Fundación Antonio Gades

Speciality

Dance, Flamenco

Date of birth

1936

Date of death

2004

"Dancer and choreographer. A creator with a charismatic personality and his own highly personal vision of dance and flamenco in Spain."

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Antonio Esteve Ródenas was born in Elda (Alicante) in 1936. He learnt to dance with Pilar López, who then took him into her dance company, and encouraged him to adopt his stage name of Antonio Gades. In 1960 he toured Japan as the company's first dancer. He discovered the poetry of García Lorca and became convinced that the most legitimate means of expression for his work was flamenco. In 1962 he founded his own company, and achieved worldwide success with his staging of 'El Amor Brujo' (Love, the magician) in 1969. In 1974 he triumphed again with 'Blood Wedding'. He became the first director of the Spanish National Ballet in 1978, when he took charge of starting up the company. He died in Madrid on 20 July 2004.

Awards

National Dance Award (1988)
Madrid Region Culture Award (1999)
Castile-La-Mancha Performing Arts Award (2002)

Essential works

Los Tarantos (interpretation)

Impossible love and family rivalries, flamenco-style. Based on the stage play by Alfredo Mañas.
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Bodas de Sangre

Antonio Gades shows his mature vision of flamenco in this dance version of Lorca's classic.
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Fuenteovejuna

Última de las coreografías del artista español Antonio Gades para su gira internacional de despedida.
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Carmen

Reinterpretation of the classic by Georges Bizet, and the definitive establishment of Antonio Gades on the international stage.
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