Hailed by the press as one of Spain’s finest flamenco dancers, award-winning dancer Ana Morales has performed her flamenco shows on the world’s great stages. She is known to a wide audience through films such as “Iberia” or “Flamenco Hoy” by director Carlos Sauras. Ana Morales began learning flamenco dance as a young girl in Barcelona. At the age of sixteen she moved to Seville to join the Andalusian dance company directed by José Antonio Ruiz. During this time she had the opportunity to work with the leading flamenco dancers in Spain such as Rafael Campallo, Alejandro Granados, Juana Amaya, Eva Yerbabuena, Isabel Bayón or Andrés Marín. As part of the Biennale in Seville in 2000, she made her acclaimed debut as a soloist. Invitations to festivals in Europe, the USA and Japan followed. In 2004 she received first prize in the flamenco dance competition in Cadiz, Spain. A year later she was not only seen in Carlos Saura’s film “Iberia” but also in the film “¿Por qué se frotan las patitas?” by director Álvaro Bejines. In 2008 she took on the role of the soloist in a production of the Seville Biennale. There she embodied the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo as a dancer in a production by Amador Rojas. Before she presented her first own production with great success worldwide in 2010, she received first prize at the international festival “Cante de Las Minas”. As a soloist with the Ballet Flamenco of Andalucía, she received the Giraldilo Prize at the Seville Biennale in 2015. Last year she was appointed artistic director of the Flamenco Festival in London.
