Eduardo Guerrero
Born in Cadiz in Andalusia (Spain) in 1983, Eduardo Guerrero started dancing at an early age. When he was six, he entered Carmen Guerrero’s school in Cadiz, where he learned the basics of dance. He then studied with Antonio Canales, Manolo Marín, Mario Maya, Chiqui de Jerez … He studied Spanish dance at the Conservatory of Dance in Cadiz, then deepened his knowledge of contemporary dance with David Greenall and classical dance with Montserrat Marín.
In 2002, he began working with recognized artists in Spain: Aida Gómez (Salome, Carmen and Suite Flamenca), Marie-Jose Franco, Eva Yerbabuena, Rocio Molina (Oro Viejo, Bosque Ardora). He also collaborates with the Spanish Ballet, under the direction of the choreographer Javier Latorre, and plays one of the leading roles in the shows Somorostro and Penelope. For the Bolero show, he is part of the Rafael Aguilar Company and participates in the show Khalo Caló of the dancer Amador Rojas, presented at the festival of Jerez. In Madrid, he dances in the company of Antonio Canales for the shows Bernarda Alba and Flamenco Directo. He participates in solo flamenco festivals in Jerez and Cádiz and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
He has received numerous prizes, including the First National Por Alegrías Dance Prize, the Peña Flamenca Prize La Perla De Cadix, the First Prize of the 2nd Choregraphy Competition of the Professional Dance Conservatories of Andalusia with his Mayo choreography and, in 2013 and the Desplante Trophy of the 53rd International Cante de Las Minas Festival. In 2011, he created Cadiz Suite Flamenca Eduardo.g and the following year De Dolores at the Festival de Jerez. In 2013, his play Las Minas won first prize at the Cante de Las Minas Festival in Murcia. In 2014, he presented the shows Re-torno and El Callejón de los Pecados, and in 2016, Desplante and a solo for a flamenco dancer in Amsterdam. In 2017, the first in Bogota of his creation Guerrero
meets a great success and gets the prize for the best Flamenco show at the Jerez Festival. He is currently working on two new projects, one for the Biennial of Seville that he will present next September, and an even more ambitious project, Underfoot, directed by Mateo Feijoo, which will be launched in 2019.
Source : Maison de la danse