legend of the flamenco dance and choreographer, He died at the age of 82 in a hospital in Villalba (Madrid), after being admitted for pneumonia, as confirmed to EL PAÍS by Joaquín San Juan, director of the Amor de Dios Flamenco Academy and right-hand man of the deceased. With El Güito the last mainstay of the most outstanding master dancers leaves, after the disappearances of and Mario Maya. Gypsy from the Madrid neighborhood of El Rastro, El Güito made his professional debut at the age of fourteen in the Pilar López Company alongside Antonio Gades, Mario Maya, Curro Vélez and Alberto Portillo at the Palace Theater in London. Years later, he obtained the prestigious Sara Bernard Prize from the Theater of Nations in Paris.
“In the Plaza General Vara del Rey my mother took me, as always, to the Quica. I was very young. But after two years I moved to Antonio Marín. I started there when I was eleven years old and at twelve I was dancing soleá, and since then I have never stopped dancing, because it is where I feel best, where I am most comfortable, where you can dance slowly…”, in an interview with Flamenco Souk.
In 1971 he participated in the legendary Trío Madrid together with Carmen Mora and Mario Maya, an artistic union that would continue until 1975. He then undertook a rising career with tours as a guest artist with the National Ballet of Spain, Manuela Vargas’ company and the Spanish Ballet. from Madrid.
Ángel Álvarez Caballero spoke of the style of El Güito in 1995: “It has stage presence, it has seriousness, it has elegance. He is one of the dancers—few, very few—who makes a permanent exercise of expressive sobriety in his dance, stripped of all accessories, but who is nevertheless rich in unprecedented solutions, showing off a very beautiful repertoire of steps and attitudes that form a everything coherent and harmonious in which there is no room for anything that is not true, authentically profound.”
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