SOUL

After traveling the globe for five years with his show Pasión Gitana, in addition to having danced live for over one million people, Joaquín Cortés returned to the stage with 'Soul'. In this show of music and dance which premiered in Barcelona's Teatro Tívoli in October of 2000, Giorgio Armani continued to be in charge of the wardrobe, Jesús Bola, Diego Carrasco and Juan Parrilla of the music, and Peter Lindberg and Andrew Douglas of the image.

As the title suggests, Soul is a show with a universal outlook, or soul, open to the influence of other kinds of music equally profound such as gospel, classical and the traditional Cuban beat. Live music carries us from the Mozart era to Chicago of the 1930's, never losing the flamenco essence of martinetes, tarantos, bulerias seguiriyas, tangos... Joaquín Cortés dares to cross influences, fuse and mix, never afraid of losing sight of who he is for having drawn from other sources.

Soul has delighted international audiences at places such as London's Sadler's Wells, in Beijing, Beirut, Hamburg, Athens, Lisbon, Tokyo and Osaka. Not to mention Spanish cities such as Valencia, Málaga or Castellón, in addition to benefit performances such as at the World Heart Day gala celebrated in Barcelona's Teatro Liceu in September, 2000. In Latin America alone, Joaquín Cortés reached up to 25,000 spectators, an amount that was surpassed during the following season.