Maurice Béjart chooses Blanca del Rey as the guest star in his new show Carte Blanche
"I never had seen anything like this in all my career, Blanca del Rey is the best flamenco I've ever seen".
Maurice Béjart
Béjart y Del Rey together in Genoa
Last 15 th of May the Theater Carlo Felice of Genoa hosted Carte Blanche, the latest show directed by Maurice Béjart, included in the XXXIII International Festival of Dance.
In his last stay in Spain, Béjart watched a performance by Blanca del Rey and soon he decided to offer her
a role as guest star in Carte Blanche.After collaborating with artists such as Mikhail Barishnikov and Maia Plissetskaia, Maurice Béjart decided to take a break in his tour Le Presbitère in order to present his new show Carte Blanche together with Blanca del Rey.
New Production: Flamenco a Bocajarro
Flamenco a Bocajarro is the new production of Ballet Flamenco Blanca del Rey, formed on this occasion by a select cast of eighteen artists, including Diego Llori as the guest star.
The play is composed of six different choreographies including solo acts and a pas de deux among others.		 The music, written specially for this production by Felipe Maya and Leo de Aurora, is performed live.


A show full of plastic beauty, light and strength.

A show of the purest flamenco, succeeding in the most demanding theatres of Spain and the world.
An elegant bata de cola blanca, an arragement of abanicos españoles and a majestic mantón are three elements missing from the stages of today, but Blanca manages to incorporate them in her choreographies.
Blanca del Rey: National Flamenco Award
Blanca del Rey has recently been awarded with the most prestigious prize given to flamenco art in Spain: the National Flamenco Award. In previous editions the price has gone to artists such as Paco de Lucía, Camarón and Antonio.
Gala Flamenca at the Royal Theatre


Last 7th of May the Royal Theatre of Madrid hosted a special performance with the most brilliant artists of the present flamenco panorama.
Blanca del Rey delighted the audience with her outstanding Soleá del Mantón, receiving the greatest ovation of the whole evening. Thus, the Gala Flamenca was complete sucess.
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The latest press has said...
Carte Blanche "The master [M. Béjart] fell in love with the famous work [Soleá]".
Rafael Estéban in El Mundo, July 14 th 2001
The greatest surprise has been Blanca's superb flamenco dance, which took possession of the hearts of everybody.
Claudio Tempo in Il Secolo XIX, August 1st 2001
Cuevas de Narja Festival
Blanca, was imagination, elegance, flamenco art.
Manuel del Campo in Sur, July 28 th 2001
Jerez Festival: Flamenco a Bocajarro
[Blanca] has performed the best flamenco dance we have seen this season.
Juan de la Plata in Diario de Jerez, March 9 th 2001
Gala Flamenco at the Royal Theatre
Blanca del Rey's achieved with her Soleá del Mantón the point of highest lyricism of the evening.
Roger Salas in El País, May 8 th 2001
National and international tours

The national tour of Flamenco a Bocajarro has started with the performances at the theatres Villamarta (Jerez de la
Frontera), Roma (Murcia), Gayarre (Pamplona) and Bretón de los Herreros (Logroño) with great success. Ballet Flamenco Blanca del Rey will go on with this national tour for the rest of the season, with international tours in between.

The latest performance given by Ballet Flamenco Blanca del Rey has been, so far, the one that took place in the Cuevas de Nerja Festival with artists such as tenor Josep Carreras.