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
Name of Andalusia to refer those territories still under the Moorish rule until then, and generally south of Castilla Nueva and Valencia, and corresponding with the former Roman province hitherto called Baetica in Latin sources. This was a Castilianization of "Al-Andalusiya", the adjectival form of the Arabic word "al-Andalus". The name "Andalusia" or "Vandalusia" is traditionally believed to be derived from "Vandal", the Germanic tribe that briefly colonized parts of Iberia, from 409 to 429. That derivation goes back to the 13th-century "De rebus Hispaniae" but has been viewed critically from the 18th century. Reinhart Dozy (1860) recognized its shortcomings but still accepted