Her performances offer a complete panorama of the purest flamenco style: communication of feelings, technical perfection, vitality, color, plasticity and beauty. Blanca has been recently appointed as the representative of Spanish dance in the European Union. She is considered the most creative flamenco dancer at the present moment. She also imparts magistral lessons and illustrated conferences for the most important theaters and dance institutions of Spain.

"In the current panorama of flamenco dance, Blanca del Rey is an exception, standing out from all flamenco dancers, thanks to her personal understanding of her art, which she stamps with a certain air of evolution, coming from her artistic anxiety, creative innovation, based on her deep knowledge of styles, leaving the usual monotony and offering us a form of dance filled with beauty and flamenco harmony, showing us something primordial: flamenco dance is charm, grace and rhythm."

JOSÉ BLAS VEGA
Flamencologist and writer


Blanca del Rey borns in Córdoba (Andalucia, Spain). Having six years old and a clear vocation in flamenco dancing, commences winning various prizes and starts with clamourous success at the GRAN TEATRO DE CORDOBA.

Her dance is based on flamenco guitar and singing, with a huge capability to transform music into movement.

Soon she enters into the Madrid stages, achieving great successes at CORRAL DE LA MORERIA, the leading spanish tablao where all top flamenco artists forged their careers. Her marriage with Manuel del Rey and the incipient maternity forced her to a temporal retirement.

At this time, she started researching about flamenco roots and evolution. A profound transformation was made which revolutionizes her conception on flamenco dance.
As soon as her children grow up, she commences punctual performances at CORRAL DE LA MORERIA, as well as a tour in principal japanesse theaters. Her participation at the spanish TV programme "La Danza" is the starting point of her return to scenarios.

Together with CIRO, a well-known spanish choreographer, appears her most outstanding performances, "las alegrías", "la caña" and her personal "guajira". But, what really emerges as a never-seen-before masterpiece is the unique "Soleá del Mantón".
During two years, she takes part in a national radio programme (Radio Exterior de España) as the main flamenco researcher, as well as participates in various documentaries about her life and work, recording her choreografies in TV programmes worldwide.
She founded BALLET FLAMENCO BLANCA DEL REY, a company devoted to developing performances based on a continuous choreograpphy creation and evolution about diverse theatrically-oriented flamenco rhythms. At this moment in time, she obtains numerous grants and excellent critics, hence, becoming one of our best spanish flamenco representatives thoughout the world.