Joaquín Cortés

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Joaquín Cortés (born February 22, 1969) is a flamenco dancer from Spain. A native of Córdoba, Cortés showed interest for dancing at an early age. Cortés and his family moved to Madrid in 1981. Soon after moving to Madrid, he began to take formal dancing classes.

In 1984, he was accepted as a member of Spain's prestigious national ballet company. He traveled around the world with the Spaniard ballet company, performing in such important centers as the Cosmopolitan Opera House of New York and the Kremlin Palace in Moscow. During his stint with the Spain national ballet, he also became a solo performer during the national ballet's acts.

By 1990, Cortés began to internationalize. The decade of the 1990s was very important in his career, as his fame as an individual dancer expanded to Latin America as well as to the United States. 1999 in particular was a great year for Cortés, because he was the object of a film documentary and he launched a successful tour across North and South America.

In 2004, Cortés was involved in an inter-continental tour that took him to England, Portugal, Thailand and New York, among other places.

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• CNN interview with Joaquín Cortés