David Palomar

Tarragona, 1986. She won the "Desplante" award at the Festival de Cante de las Minas de La Unión 2016 and the National Flamenco Award "Mario Maya 2004". With no artistic background in her family, Belén López shows from a very young age an enormous sensitivity for the show and a boundless passion for flamenco. When she was only five years old, she performed in a tribute to Carmen Amaya, during the Diada de Sant Jordi, in front of two historic names in dance: Antonio Ruiz Soler and Pilar López. Three years later, Ángel Corella invited her to take part in a tribute to UNICEF at the Teatro Madrid and, in a short time, she moved to the capital, where she began to study at the Madrid Dance Conservatory. From that moment on, her career was unstoppable. For four seasons, from 2001 to 2005, she was prima ballerina at the Arena di Verona, with the operas Carmen and El Trovatore, directed by Franco Zefirelli and prima ballerina of the company La Corrala de La Danza directed by Il Camborio, for months she was the leading figure of the Corral de la Morería in Madrid. In 2004 she won the Premio Nacional de Flamenco Mario Maya, formed her own company and directed large-scale productions such as "Atrapados por el Arte", "Cuando Amanece", and "A mi Manera", performing with them all over Europe. In 2005 she was awarded the Premio a la Artista Revelación by the Corral de la Pacheca and in 2016 she won the Premio Desplante 2016 of the Festival de Cante de las Minas de La Unión.