Carmen Young
Performances at La Cantaora
Mexican flamenco dancer, originally from the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico. She began her dance studies at the “Flamenco Vive” Academy. At the age of eight, she started taking courses with Cristóbal Reyes, with whom she studied during her stay in Madrid in 2001. Since 2012, she has continued her studies at Amor de Dios in Madrid and at the Cristina Heeren Foundation in Seville, where she received a scholarship and later became an assistant teacher. Her main teachers include Cristobal Reyes, Antonio and Manuel Reyes, Javier Barón, Carmelilla Montoya, Milagros Mengibar, Luisa Palicio, Choro Molina, Adela Campallo, and Lucía “La Piñona,” among others.
At the age of 18, she was a repeater for Cristóbal Reyes during his 2011 and 2012 courses in various cities in Mexico. She won a scholarship for studies abroad from the Cultural Institute of Aguascalientes, Mexico, through the State Fund for Culture and the Arts, FECA 2012-2013, with which she studied at Amor de Dios. She was part of María Juncal’s company “Bailamos Flamenco” in 2013 as a solo dancer in Mexico City. In the “Flamencos y Mestizos” festival directed by Paco Ortega in Madrid (2015), she performed solo, in Bilbao (2017) with Antonio Molina “El Choro,” and in Úbeda (2019), she premiered her first production “Calle de la Compañía” and repeated it the same year in June at the IV Festival Esprit de Bayonna. In Jerez, she was a soloist at the XX Festival de Jerez with the show “Eclosión” by the Cristina Heeren Foundation and as part of the dance ensemble in “Flamenconautas” directed by Javier Latorre at the XXII Festival de Jerez.
She became the first substitute for the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía in 2019. In November of that year, she performed with Rosalía at the MTVEMA’s in Seville and collaborated in 2020 and 2022 with the Dior brand for the brand’s events. She is currently a repeater for the show “#SiDiosKiere” by Antonio Molina “El Choro.”
She premiered her first solo show “Siempre Vivo” at the Festival de Jerez in 2023, and in July of the same year, she performed in Jordan at the Jerash International Festival for Culture and Arts.
