a dirección artística es mi Pasión, hacer que los intérpretes brillen y los proyectos abracen la excelencia en cada creación es mi principal objetivo.
I am happy to put my experience at the service of creations. I lead because I am more useful to others than I am to myself.
Choreographic creation is the best way I have to feel alive and in contact with the citizenship in order to contribute through my works to improve our society with the arts of movement as a universal language. The crossbreeding of cultures is my main impulse in each creation, new latitudes for new horizons.
I am the creator and director of the Ciudad de Móstoles dance school where I develop my pedagogical project in the same place where I began my dance studies. Today I have created a teaching center for my city from which come out the new performers of our time. I give back to my city what one day my city gave me, to continue building a society in dance. Teaching happy people who dance.
I am a cultural manager of projects such as the Madrid Flamenco Festival for the Madrid City Council, where I am useful from the project management for the rest of the sector. I belong to the territorial council of SGAE as a member of the college of great right, I advise projects from the technical field as well as artistic. I have been director of the Madrid Flamenco Theater, the first theater in the world entirely dedicated to flamenco.
For more than 30 years I have been dedicated to the world of performing arts covering interpretation, choreography, lighting, teaching, as well as the creation, direction and management of both public and private projects. I am an active part of the wonderful profession of the living arts of movement. In these more than 30 years, I have contributed to the implementation of projects of many different kinds. From the different positions of responsibility where I am represented, I always try to provide solutions to the problems of the sector, in order to be useful to the profession as a whole. My transversal experience within the sector helps to build new bridges of collaboration to grow together in the same direction.
He was born in Madrid in 1974 and made his professional debut at the age of 16, touring with Luisillo’s Ballet Teatro Español and Rafael Aguilar’s Ballet Teatro Español, later joining the Ballet Español de Madrid, directed by José Granero.
In 1992 he joined the Ballet Flamenco Antonio Canales, participating in the show A ti, Carmen Amaya and later playing one of the main roles in Torero, with excellent reviews from the national and international press.
Between 1992 and 1994 he participated in numerous prestigious galas, was a guest dancer with the Victor Ullate Company and choreographed for the Compañía Teatro de la Danza, and for the Compañía de José Antonio y los Ballets Españoles, being also a soloist dancer with the latter.
In 1995, together with Carlos Rodríguez, he founded the Nuevo Ballet Español, which would be renamed Rojas & Rodríguez in 2008, a company that has successfully toured nationally and internationally for more than 20 years.
Among his most outstanding works are: Infierno, S.L. (1995), Canela y Fuego (1996), Sangre Flamenca (1997), Flamenco Directo (1998), Gallo de Pelea (1999), Furia (2000), Romeo y Julieta (2003), Tierra (2004), En Carne Viva (2005), Alma (2006), Sangre (2008), Baile de Máscaras (2008), commissioned by the Community of Madrid for the Bicentennial of the War of Independence, Cambio de Tercio (2009), Homenaje a los Clásicos (2012), Amor Brujo (2012) or Titanium (2013), which fused flamenco with urban dances.
His works have toured countries such as France, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, USA, Japan, China, Philippines, Korea and Thailand.
In 1995 he founded with Carlos Rodríguez the Nuevo Ballet Español, which would be renamed Rojas & Rodríguez in 2008, a company that has successfully toured nationally and internationally for more than 20 years.
Among his most outstanding works are: Infierno, S.L. (1995), Canela y Fuego (1996), Sangre Flamenca (1997), Flamenco Directo (1998), Gallo de Pelea (1999), Furia (2000), Romeo y Julieta (2003), Tierra (2004), En Carne Viva (2005), Alma (2006), Sangre (2008), Baile de Máscaras (2008), commissioned by the Community of Madrid for the Bicentennial of the War of Independence, Cambio de Tercio (2009), Homenaje a los Clásicos (2012), Amor Brujo (2012) or Titanium (2013), which fused flamenco with urban dances.
His works have toured countries such as France, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Germany, Holada, Belgium, Great Britain, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, USA, Japan, China, Philippine Islands, Korea or Thailand.
Throughout his career, Ángel Rojas has been awarded on numerous occasions, including the Award for Best Outstanding Dancer in the National Choreography Competition, shared with Carlos Rodríguez (1994), UP Dance Award to the New Spanish Ballet as Best Spanish Dance and Flamenco Company (2000), Villa de Madrid Pilar López Award for Best Dance Performer (2005), Medal of the Arts of the Community of Madrid, together with Carlos Rodríguez (2006), Cultural Ambassador of the city of Móstoles (2012)…
Ángel Rojas assumes in 2008 the artistic and teaching direction of the dance school CIUDAD DE MÓSTOLES, creating with it a pool of local talent with projection of future dance professionals, he has also taught courses and workshops in numerous dance centers, not only in Spain but also in Sweden, Finland, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, USA, Japan, China or Hong Kong. She also advises different projects such as Flamenco del Sol in Orlando (U.S.A), where she is an active part of the training of students and their didactic program.
As a guest choreographer, highlights include Dualia, created for the Ballet Nacional de España in 2007 commissioned by José Antonio, with great critical and public acclaim, Don Juan, a musical created in Canada in 2004 and restaged in 2012, Pálpito, for the Ángel Corella Foundation, premiered in New York in 2012 or Falla outside the box, created for the Ensemble Español de Chicago in 2016.
In 2015 he is called by the city council of Madrid to create the FESTIVAL FLAMENCO MADRID, of which he is also appointed Artistic Director, until the last edition 2018, marking a before and after and getting to place the festival among the most important cultural events in its genre, with a high positioning at the level of communication by obtaining one of its promotional videos 18 international awards.
In my role as art director, I would highlight the following projects:
In 2018 Ángel Rojas takes another step forward in his career by assuming the artistic direction of the new TEATRO FLAMENCO MADRID, which he endows with its own line of programming with his undisputed seal of quality, rigor and artistic value.
Es llamado por el maestro FARRUQUITO para dirigir “Desde mi ventana” espectáculo que se estrena dentro del marco de Bienal de flamenco de Sevilla 2020, siendo el primer director que dirige al maestro Farruquito en su carrera.
At present, Ángel Rojas leads his own project ÁNGEL ROJAS FLAMENCO DANCE PROJECT, whose stable residence is in the city of Móstoles, a city to which Rojas feels closely linked because he was born in Mostoleño.
A selection of videos of Ángel Rojas in the media:
