Juan Carlos Lérida

Dancer, choreographer, pedagogue, dance researcher and artistic curator. Higher degree in choreography and interpretation and extraordinary award 2007 from the Theater Institute. Juan Carlos Lérida presents himself as an empiric flamenco artist. Professional who navigates between disciplines has long been in logical synergy for many. Bringing together different artists on the same stage and deepening the research on flamenco, the body and improvisation, are the bases and signs of identity that have led him to develop his most outstanding works such as: “The art of war ” (2007); “Learning” (2012); the trilogy on Flamenco Bodies: “Al Toque” (2011), “Al Cante” (2014) and “Al Baile” (2016) or “La liturgia de las horas” (2021). The research that Lérida has been developing in the ‘field of the empirical dissemination of flamenco, through its creations and workshops, could be located halfway between training and artistic curation. In this fine line that separates the labels most used in this from the performing arts.

Collaborate with Calixto Bieito or Joaquín Cortes, direct and choreograph for Olga Pericet or Marco Flores, as well as bringing together on stage such disparate names as María Muñoz (Mal Pelo), Candela Peña, Belén Maya, La Chana, Rocío Molina , Niño de Elche, Sol Picó… in the cycle he devised for Mercat dels Flors since 2009, presents him as a creator at his maximum expression.

He dedicates his time to stage direction and choreography, without neglecting his work as a pedagogue and researcher, coordinating artistic research laboratories at the Theater Institute and other centers in Europe and the United States, as well as the curatorship for the flamenco festival Tanzhaus NRW, Dusseldorf.

Lérida has just published the book “The Empirical Flamenco Method” where he puts black on white in the new creative and pedagogical methodologies in the field of flamenco dance.