Dancer

María Juncal

Spanish flamenco dancer

Born 1950 · Las Palmas de Gran CanariaSpain
María Juncal
Image: ANTONIO NAVA / Secretaria de Cultura · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

María Juncal is a Spanish dancer, born in 1950 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Biography

María Juncal (b. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, ca. 1981) is a Spanish flamenco dancer who has toured in Belgium, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the U.S., and Venezuela. She has participated in different shows such as Jarocho under the direction of Richard O'Neal, assistant director of Riverdance, and has collaborated as a choreographer with Spain's women's national artistic gymnastics team, 2012. In addition to receiving the Excelencias Cuba Award 2018 2018 for her work in developing Cuban flamenco art, and winning the Antonio Gades National Award of Flamenco Dance, she was voted the best flamenco dancer at the Festival Del Cante De Las Minas.

From the Wikipedia article “María Juncal”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

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