Juan Carlos Lérida

Juan Carlos Lérida is a dancer, choreographer, pedagogue, dance researcher, and artistic curator. He holds an advanced degree in choreography and performance and received the Extraordinary Prize in 2007 from the Institut del Teatre. Juan Carlos Lérida presents himself as an artist of empirical flamenco. A professional navigating across disciplines that have long existed in logical synergy. Bringing together different artists on the same stage and deepening research into flamenco, the body, and improvisation are the foundations and hallmarks that have led him to develop his most notable works such as El arte de la guerra (2007); El Aprendizaje (2012); the trilogy Los Cuerpos del Flamenco: Al Toque (2011), Al Cante (2014), and Al Baile (2016); and La liturgia de las horas (2021).

The research Lérida develops in the field of empirical dissemination of flamenco, through his creations and workshops, could be situated halfway between training and artistic curating, along that fine line separating commonly used labels in the performing arts. Collaborating with Calixto Bieito or Joaquín Cortés, directing and choreographing for Olga Pericet or Marco Flores, as well as bringing together on one stage such diverse names as María Muñoz (Mal Pelo), Candela Peña, Belén Maya, La Chana, Rocío Molina, Niño de Elche, and Sol Picó in the cycle he devised for Mercat de les Flors since 2009, positions him as a creator in his fullest expression. He dedicates his time to stage direction and choreography while continuing his work as a pedagogue and researcher, coordinating artistic research laboratories at the Institut del Teatre and other centers across Europe and the United States, as well as curating for the flamenco festival Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf. Lérida published the book El método flamenco empírico, where he sets out new creative and pedagogical methodologies in the field of flamenco dance. For his latest work CHER, he was awarded Best Solo at the 2026 Catalan Performing Arts Critics Awards.

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Photograph: Eugenia Gusmerini