CAST

Chelo Pantoja, a native of Jerez de la Frontera, is a daughter, niece, granddaughter, cousin and sister of flamenco artists. Her family discovers her talent at the age of five when she started up with fandangos like those she heard so many times in her own home and in La Bolola´s, an old gypsy with whom Camarón also learned.

At the age of 13, Chelo begins to go on stage at Dos Hermanas with her uncle Pepe Pantoja and his wife Consuelo Pavón, niece of La Niña de los Peines, from whom she absorbs her pure essence. At the age of 14, she begins to act professionally at fairs and festivals in Jerez, Seville, Sanlucar or Rota, and soon she will share events with Camarón, Paco de Lucía, Tomatito or Dorantes.

She also opens the season of “peñas” in Jerez, and they request her in their most emblematic wineries together with artists such as Manuel Sordera, Luis de la Pica, Los Zambos, Tío Gallina and his Tío Guapo, Tío Paulera or El Mono, among others.

She sang with Adela La Chaqueta, María La Burra and María Soleá with the guitar of Juan Morao, father of Moraíto, Paco Valdepeñas, Pansequito, Aurora Vargas, El Cuchara, La Susi or Remedios Amaya, who later calls her for her concerts, giving her the honor of being able to sing alone and sharing the stage with Juanito Villar, with whom she recorded his album "Entre Cai y Jerez."

At the age of 18 she begins recording with Manuel Fernández seven volumes of "This is how our land sings at Christmas", in which Rocío Jurado collaborates, which later includes it in her summer concerts. She also collaborates on the albums of Pepe Habichuela, Niña Pastori, Los Manolos, Perlita de Huelva or José Carmona. With 20 years she moved to Madrid to work with the great Lola Flores, who had fallen in love with her voice in the Romería de El Rocío and incorporated her into her company to appear on televisions and concerts throughout Spain.

In this same epic, she becomes part of the flamenco painting of the tablao Zambra with dancers of the stature of El Toleo, Juaquín Grilo, Adrián Galia, Cristóbal Reyes and Joaquín Cortés, who later incorporates her into his company as the only female singer.

She collaborated on the album "Pasión gitana" and was the first singer in the shows "A cuerda y tacón", "A ti Carmen" and "Torero" with Antonio Canales. She was also the first singer in the company of Sara Baras, taking the name of Jerez all over the world.

In 2013, she completed a three-year collaboration as a special teacher at the María Dávila Conservatory of Higher Dance, where she applied singing to the discipline of dance. In this same year she collaborates with the designer Juan Duyos in his collection for the Cibeles Fashion Week. Later, she signed a contract with the Malaga-born bailaora La Lupi to play the role of “the mother” in the show “La Paula.” And in Granada, together with Loles León and Alina Sánchez, in the show “Oh, Cuba!”

In recent times we have seen her in the successful Movistar Plus series “Arde Madrid”, and right now in the avant-garde immersive show Tacones Manoli.

Lorena Martínez Crespo, 25, was born in Valencia where she trained in the different disciplines of the performing arts, specializes in Spanish dance and flamenco and finishes her dance career at the Carmen Amaya Conservatory in Madrid. She begins to work in different flamenco companies, among the most outstanding productions, participates in the show FLAMENCO INDIA by Carlos Saura, where she stars in one of the most representative numbers of the show. A deep training on urban and contemporary dances begins in Madrid and creates a personal style, seeking her own interpretation of dance, which she continues to develop today.

Flamenco comes to Carlos Carbonell as an inheritance, he has a privileged and versatile trajectory having formed part of companies such as Manuela Carrasco, Sara Baras, Eva la Yerbabuena, Olga Pericet, Mercedes Ruiz, Rafael Amargo, Ana Arroyo or L'Anonima Imperial among others. In recent years he presents his own projects, among them “Homage to Vicente Escudero” awarded the best street show 2019.

  If David were to be defined, we could not say that he is just a flamenco singer. He has a powerful and torn voice as if he were a Flemish tenor, David is performative and orthodox, moves the tailcoat, dominates the stage and pierces your heart when he lets silence take hold of your expectation and your very soul ...”

"... David Bastidas in" Quejio "by Salvador Távora, is an actor who sings like the angels of the jondo ..."

His artistic career begins with folklore. Committed and multidisciplinary, he participates in the Velasco Villegas Spanish Laudes Orchestra and also collaborates on two record projects with them.

In 2006 he moved to Córdoba and later to Seville, to carry out his training in Audiovisual and Performing Arts and achieved a place in the first promotion of the specialty of flamenco singing in history at the Professional Conservatory of Music "Cristobal de Morales" of Sevilla. All this culminates in the foundation of its production company FLAMENCOMOTORA with which it produces shows such as Man to Man with Niño de Elche and directed by the filmmaker Antonio Naharro, From the Soul, directed by the brilliant Manuel Monteagudo.

His singing and his versatility make him work in several of the best tablaos in both Seville and Madrid such as the Flamenco Dance Museum "Cristina Hoyos", La Casa de la Memoria and Flamenqueria Tiana in Seville and in Madrid he works in the mythical tablao Casa Patas and at the Teatro Flamenco Madrid and the Centro Cultural Flamenco Madrid among others.

Participates in major National and International Festivals such as the Flamenco Biennial of Seville, the Mont de Marsant Festival, White Night of flamenco in Cordoba or the San Isidro Fair in Madrid and is part of top-level companies such as: Choni Cía. Flamenca with his award-winning show "Tejidos al Tiempo"; Victor Bravo Flamenco Company with "Allegory", premiered in New York in the framework of the "Now Yes Flamenco" festival; Salvador Távora Company with its mythical show "Quejío", performing the leading role from 2017. Together with Niño de Elche with his show "Anthology of the heterodox flamenco song" collaborating with Israel Galvan in this last Flamenco Biennial at the Lope de Vega Theater in Seville; It is part of the phenomenon "Improbataciones" with the action "#Carrilbataya" (premiered at the Biennial 2016) and “#Nosinmibata” that this year have been in charge of the opening day of the macro festival of Seville.

He collaborates with UNESCO in the conservation of the Intangible Heritage by touring Latin America and in 2013 he receives the Baza Joven Award from the Youth Ministry of the Andalusian Government in the Art and Creation modality, and in September 2018 he becomes the preacher official of the fair and parties of his hometown. In 2019 he receives the Nazario Award for Best show for "Silk Beach Under the Tempest" of the CIA Theater at Sea, and that same day he is awarded the "LGTB Visibility" Prize awarded by the Baza Pride.

Jorge Peralta,  was born in Cáceres. At the age of 8 he began his training in the saeta and in flamenco singing. He is trained at the Cristina Heeren Foundation of Flamenco Art in Seville, with professors such as Calixto Sánchez and Julián Estrada, and where he receives an annual scholarship for his qualities and as a young promise of flamenco singing.

Since its inception it has won numerous awards in national competitions of saetas and with songs by fandangos de Huelva, alegrías of Cádiz and trilla songs. Highlighting in 2002 his first prize in the National Contest of Saetas de Cáceres in both the youth and adult modality; and in this last year his second and third prize in the National Contests of Saetas de Fuente del Maestre and Zafra respectively.

In 2016, he was part of the cast as lead singer of the Flamenco Ballet Company of Madrid with Carmen De Bizet and Carmina Burana at the Nuevo Apolo Theater in Madrid and with an international tour of Romania and China. In 2017 he debuted as a leading actor and singer in the Calixto show. The most Flamenco Tragicomedy of Chameleon Producciones and in the musical Trasto, Truka and Professor Trova in the mystery of the lost letters.

The guitarist Luis Miguel Manzano, is the 4th generation in the Pelaos dynasty. He began his apprenticeship as a 16-year-old guitarist at the hands of three great masters: Entri, Manuel Parrilla and Calentito, who technically and harmonically prepared him in the art of the guitar and in the flamenco “palos”. He has been part of the COMPANIES of: Merche Esmeralda, Domingo Ortega, María Pagés, Rafael Aguilar, Carmen Cortes and Maestro Enrique de Melchor. He has participated in FESTIVALS all over the world. In the United States he worked with Rocío Molina, Merche Esmeralda and María Pagés. He has done TOURS in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa.

José Hernández, Guitarist and Composer

His long career stands out among other works. Having collaborated in the Verona Arena for several seasons under the direction of film director Franco Zeffirelli, in the opera Carmen and Trovatore. He has composed original music for numerous companies and ballet such as José Greco, Antonio Canales, Tomás de Madrid, Jesús Lozano, and various theater projects, such as Alen Do Mar, Requien, Mis 5 sentidos ... He has traveled half the world working in the best theaters in Russia, China, Japan, Dubai, France, Italy etc. He has worked on the best tablaos like Corral de la Moreria Café de Chinitas, Casa Patas, Torre Bermejas, etc. He recorded his first album in 2009, with the record label AlmukriRecords, where he collaborated with artists such as Ramon el Portugués, Angi bao, Yeye de Caí. And currently he is recording two albums with great collaborators, one of them sponsored by the SGAE.

Salomé Ramírez,  Born in Jerez de la Frontera in 1990. She began her training at 4 years in the academies of Manuela Carpio and Chiqui de Jerez, continuing her training with teachers such as Farruquito, Alfonso Losa, Marco Flores or Manuel Liñan.

At the age of 12 she begins to dance in the tablaos of Jerez as "El lagar de Tío Parrilla". Later she was part of the cast of various tablaos such as "El Arenal" in Seville or "El tablao de Carmen" in Barcelona. She was a dancer for the show "Sonerías" by Farruquito in 2010. And she won the 2nd prize of the tablao "Las Carboneras" in 2016.

Currently, she belongs to the company of Eduardo Guerrero with shows like "Gaditania" and "Onírico". And she works in the prestigious tablaos of Madrid such as "El Corral de la Morería", "Las Carboneras" or "Tablao Villa Rosa".

Olaya Brandón, 

Winner in 2018 of the Musical Theater and Makeup (PTM) Award for “The Addams Family”.

This Galician fashion designer was trained in the branch of characterization, makeup and hairdressing of cinema, theater and fashion in various schools such as the Madrid Film Institute, Workshop experience makeup school, sculpture school and fx Barbara almArt ...

Her professional work has been developed in different fields, always related to the world of creativity, design, fashion and entertainment.

After developing different tasks as an illustrator of Fashion, she has been working on several works as a television makeup artist and in the theater world she has designed the makeup of the musical LA FAMILIA ADDAMS and has also collaborated in the costumes, makeup and hairdressing of the entire The Hole saga.

More recently she has also worked for the original project of the clandestine club Medias Puri and Uñas Chung Lee.

She currently works as a creative and coordinator of the makeup and hairdressing department in the production and promoter of shows LETSGO.

Adriana Bilbao,dancer titled at the Superior Conservatory of Dance "María de Ávila" in Madrid. Among her shows as a dancer and choreographer, “El Cuarto escalón” (2013) and Burdina-Hierro (2019) stand out, performed in collaboration with Iparralde singer-songwriter Beñat Achiary. All this combines it with tablaos and performances in company at national and international level. Among them, in 2016 he was part of the cast of Carlos Saura's “Flamenco Hoy” show. 

Auxi Fernández, Bailaora and actress from Cádiz, nominated for the ACE awards in New York (2014) for her show "Flamenco". She has toured the world with artists such as Simon Shaheen, Jorge Pardo, Carles Benavent or Sara Baras. In 2005 jazz legend Chick Corea decided to incorporate it into his band, making three tours of Europe, Asia and America, and recording the DVD "The Ultimate Adventure" at the Palau de la Música (Barcelona). She has combined dance with interpretation, in Spain with Juan Carlos Corazza and in New York with Susan Batson.

Claudia Cruz,  was born in Cádiz in 1986 and at the young age of 5 she began receiving flamenco classes. Currently, with more than 10 years of experience, she has become an artist that combines performances in the most important tablaos, festivals and stages of the national and international level.

Consolidated flamenco figure, Claudia Cruz stands out for her impeccable technique acquired thanks to her training and her long professional career. She is a true volcano of power and strength managed with subtlety and elegance. In addition to his career as a figure of the dance, he has a great innovative and creative capacity carrying out shows with his own signature as his latest work “Hilenco, dance tribute to the love-art of the King of pop Michael Jackson”, a project that the artist is currently developing.

Praised by critics and admired by the public, the dancer has the respect of her classmates. She has shared tables with the most relevant artists of the scene and is claimed to teach courses both in Spain and in other countries, including Argentina, Uruguay, Costa Rica, the United States, Japan, Luxembourg or the Netherlands, among others.

María Reyes,  Her relationship with Flamenco comes to her from an early age. She finished her studies at the Professional Dance Conservatory with the Prize for the best academic record of Andalusia, while studying in depth with his teacher Miguel Ángel Heredia, a Jerez dancer of great recognition.

In 2011, she joined the Spanish and Flamenco Dance Company "Azalea", with the masters Mercedes Márquez and Javier Marín.

In 2012, she is part of the show “Vive la Pepa, 1812”, sharing with artists such as María José Franco and Miguel Ángel Corbacho. That same year, she was chosen by the province of Cádiz to participate in the “Disencaja Young Flamencos” contest, taking part as a dancer of the Peñas de Andalucía Provincial Circuit. In 2014 she won the 3rd Dance Prize of the National Ubrique Contest.

In 2016 she moved to Madrid to continue her higher studies in dance, while working in the most prestigious tablaos in the capital. In 2017, she is part of the cast in the choreographic piece “La Rosa de Gerineldo”, by the dancer and choreographer Guadalupe Torres, who won the 1st prize as choreography at the Spanish and Flamenco Dance Contest in Madrid, and that same year is a semifinalist of the Dance Contest of Tablao Villa Rosa. She is currently continuing her career as a bailaora at the Tablaos in Madrid, and her training with outstanding teachers in the profession.

Ana Arroyo,  the Outstanding Dancer Award defines the trajectory of a multifaceted and nonconformist artist who has not resisted any discipline. He began his classical career with Fernando Bujones and in Spanish and flamenco dance he has danced with Joaquín Cortés, Rafael Amargo, Cristobal Reyes, Ángel Rojas, Rafaela Carrasco, Carlos Carbonell or Marco Flores. As a contemporary dancer she has collaborated with Philippe Talard, Chevy Muraday or Fabián Thomé; and Giuliano Peparini chose her to be one of the protagonists of the Franco Dragone show The House of Dancing Water. She has also participated in theater, performance, musical and circus dance projects.

Manuel Liñán collaborates as a soloist in several companies such as Merche Esmeralda, "La Tati", Manolete, Paco Romero, Rafaela Carrasco, New Spanish Ballet, Teresa Nieto, Belén Maya etc …

In 2005 he began to express his stage concerns by directing his first projects. Together with artists like Olga Pericet he directed "Camara Negra", with Marco Flores "Dos en company", with Daniel Doña "Rew" with whom he toured numerous festivals of national and international prestige.

It is already in 2008 when he premiered his solo shows as director, choreographer and performer, TAURO is his first show with which he obtained the Revelation Award at the XVI Festival de Jerez 2012, and one of his listed nominations for the Max Awards as best Male dance performer, followed by SINERGIA premiered at the Suma Flamenca Festival in Madrid and NOMADA premiered at the XVIII Festival de Jerez 2014. In 2016 he premiered RESERVIBLE, taking the best show prize at the Jerez Festival. AUTHOR DANCE premieres in 2018 and is currently touring the best Festivals in the world.

In 2019 he takes his last big step with VIVA! ! a song to the freedom of the movement, where the feminine is embraced as its own, from the male body released with the collaboration of Los Teatros del Canal de Madrid.

He has shown his projects and collaborations in festivals, galas and theaters of great prestige such as: The Biennial of Seville, Festival de Jerez, Madrid in Dance, Suma Flamenca, Flamenco comes from the south, International Festival of Music and Dance of Granada, Maison de la Dance, (France), Tel Aviv Flamenco Days Festival, Flamenco Festival Washington (GW ́s Lisner Auditorium), Boston (Emerson Majestic Theater) New York (City Center), London (Sadler´s Wells), Australia (Opera House) , Miami (Arsht Center), Qatar (Qatar National Theater), Milan (Strehler Theater), Chaillot Theater in Paris, etc ...

Manuel Liñan is also recognized for his work as a choreographer, as in addition to choreography for his own shows he has also choreographed for artists and companies such as the NATIONAL BALLET OF SPAIN, in two different productions, "Angeles Caidos" and "Sorolla", Compañía de Paco Romero, New Spanish Ballet Company "Cambio de Tercio" and "Titanium", show of "Women" composed by Merche Esmeralda, Belén Maya and Rocio Molina, Flamenco Gala "Todo Cambia" composed by Belén López and Pastora Galván, Cia de Rafaela Carrasco , Belén Maya and Teresa Nieto.

PREMIOS:
Prize awarded by Hugo Boss to new values ​​of Dance 2003.
First Prize of Choreography soloist in the International Contest of Spanish Dance and Flamenco of Madrid 2004.
Award for outstanding dancer in the International Competition of Spanish Dance and Flamenco in Madrid 2004.
Bailaor Revelación Award granted by Deflamenco.com 2006.
MAX Award for the performing arts of Spain for the best choreography for De Cabeza 2009.
Finalist for the MAX 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 awards as best dance performer.
Prize Dancer Revelation of the Festival of Jerez 2012.
Finalist for the MAX 2013 awards for best choreographer with Daniel Doña for Rew.
2013 Max Award for Best Male Dance Performer
2012 and 2013 Award of the specialized critic Flamenco Hoy as best dancer.
Max 2017 Award for Best Male Dance Performer
NATIONAL DANCE AWARD 2017 interpretation mode.

Felype de Lima, 

Stage designer, figurine and theatrical illuminator. Multidisciplinary designer linked to both theatrical design and the use of the languages ​​it offers for the creation and coordination of artistic projects at any level and degree of experimentation. He was born on August 27, 1984 in Maringá, Brazil. From an early age he developed a special predilection for performing arts, and at an early age he moved to Spain where he will study and acquire a complete artistic background. In 2003 he began his studies in Scenic Machinery and Scenography Construction by the Center for Scenic Studies of Andalusia (ESCENICA, Granada). In 2004 he entered the Royal Superior School of Dramatic Arts in Madrid (RESAD), where he studied the specialty of Scenography, obtaining, in 2008, the Degree in Dramatic Arts. In this academic period, he combines his studies with the first professional works, always starting from the scenographic design, expands his field of study and learning in other scenic languages, such as costumes and lighting.

Throughout these years he has collaborated with different directors, choreographers, musicians and curators of exhibitions including Tomaž Pandur, Ara Malikian, Chevi Muraday, Ernesto Caballero, Esteve Ferrer, Carles Alfaro, Gabriel Olivares, Giorgio Ursini, Delphine Pinasa, Natalia Moreno , Mariano de Paco, Marco Flores and Manuel Liñan.

His projects include Fausto, directed by Tomaž Pandur and production of the National Dramatic Center (Valle-Inclán Theater), for which he is awarded the 2015 Max Award for Best Costume Design, along with this director he performs the costume design for the King Lear (Greece) and Faust (Slovenia) shows.

In 2017 he made a total of 11 projects, of which the following stand out: The Addams family, Medias Puri, El Hortera, Ara Malikian, Gross Indeceny, Life is a dream, Dark loves.

He is currently the director of the Master of set design and Master of costume of the TAI School, where he teaches the subjects of Set Design, Costume Design and Project.

After ten years devoted to Scenic Design and Costume Design, Felype de Lima is committed to creating its laboratory-studio in Madrid, a new creative space to expand its artistic horizons. In Lima, recognized for its constant commitment to open new avenues of research in the creation and theatrical design, it advances again and inaugurates its own study to investigate, create and develop with national and international projects in capital letters; surrounded by a team of creators and professionals of first level, coming from different artistic fields.

The creative process of this designer is unique, it has its own internal pulse that motivates you to create, research and reinvent. For him, each project is flooded with universal concepts that are not governed by any norm, are not static, definitive or absolute, but are in a state of development, of changes and continuous progress. In his opinion, classical concepts can be redefined, it is easy for your mind to formulate new concepts that are fueled by new paradigms within a new cultural context. A design devoid of content can influence the banalization of society, accustomed to staying only with appearances, without worrying about the content of the messages. His projects are based on the transmutation of ideas with the objective of communicating from another point of view, creating and providing viewers with a multisensory experience, which immerses them in a state of ecstasy, an interdisciplinary synthesis of deep research.

In this way, the creative and innovative work is always a mirror of this scenic designer, he talks about his abilities, his way of thinking, his style, constituting an important duty, since he never separates from his work.

Regina Ferrando, Valencian actress known for starring in the film “You will not die” by Pedro Martín-Calero for the production company Caballo Films. She has participated in television series such as "The Neighbor" or "Shame." On stage she highlights her comic in works such as "The Rivas Sisters" by Mariano Rochman and Adriana Roffi at the Teatro Lara in Madrid.

Degree in Textual Interpretation by the ESAD of Valencia (2004) and Gestural Interpretation by the RESAD (2008). She began her artistic career as a Scenic Movement Advisor and assistant director in "El Caballero de Olmedo" by Lope de Vega at the Fernán Gómez Theater, "Carlota" by Miguel Mihura, at the María Guerrero Theater both under the direction of Mariano de Paco and "The tales of the plague" by Mario Vargas Llosa, directed by Joan Ollé at the Spanish Theater.

She is currently Assistant Director of Felype de Lima for the production company Let’s Go Company creating shows in unconventional spaces such as Medias Puri,Uñas Chung Lee, Back to 80’s and Tacones Manoli.

Melisa Calero,  Creator, researcher, dancer and dancer of vertical dance. Work with and from flamenco. Versatile, eclectic and electronic. She has participated in numerous festivals both with her own creations, such as “La Huella. We are all Carmen Amaya ”premiered at the Seville Biennial,“ Delirium ”nominated for“ best show ”at the Sevilla Scenarios Awards; Mont de Marsan Festival, Month of Dance, White Night of Cordoba, etc., as with other companies: Andanzas / TNT, B612 Vertical Dance, Varuma Theater, among others. “Calero is many bailaoras in one. She has a great intense and dramatic component and enormous technical virtues. Her stage presence is blunt and her dance is solid and natural in her sophistication. ”Juan Vergillos. (Diary of Seville). www.melisacalero.com

Raquel Ortega, born in Madrid, studied flamenco in Amor de Dios, with professionals such as Ciro, Tati, Cristobal Reyes ... She has worked in tablaos as large as, Zambra, Corral de la Moreria, Cafe de Chinitas, Cardamomo, among others. In addition to working in companies as famous as Paco Peña, Joaquín Cortes, Sara Baras, Blanca del Rey, Antonio Gades, and Rafael Amargo. In his career there are also performances with Rocío Jurado, Lola Flores, Raphael, Diego Carrasco, among others.