Antonio Canales (flamenco) the “Torero” show. 1999 Medal of Andalusia for his contribution to the dissemination of the culture of the state abroad. 2000 Max Awards “Best Dance Performer” 2003 Max Awards “Best Dance Artist” Antonio Canales (flamenco) Antonio Gomez de los Reyes known as Antonio Canales is a male flamenco dancer and choreographer born in Seville. 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
Flamenco Flamenco Flamenco (), in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia. In a wider sense, it refers to these musical traditions and more modern musical styles which have themselves been deeply influenced by and become blurred with the development of flamenco over the past two centuries. It includes "cante" (singing), "toque" (guitar playing), "baile" (dance), "jaleo" (vocalizations and chorus clapping), "palmas" (handclapping) and "pitos" (finger snapping). The oldest record of flamenco dates to 1774 in the book "Las Cartas Marruecas" by