A brave, imaginative dancer, with an exquisite sensitivity... She knows how to give a personal stamp to each dance she performs, to each show she designs. A prototypical artist of the Sevillian school who does not like to simply repeat the past. Dances of yesterday, but renewed and revived today. She carries out work where she investigates contemporary dance, circus, theater, humor, cabaret... The mix of disciplines has become the hallmark of Choni Cía. Flamenco.
Restless, eclectic creator...Asunción Pérez «Choni» was born in Seville. She is a certified teacher from the Higher Conservatory of Music and Dance of Seville. She has a long professional career as a soloist and as part of the artistic cast of important companies such as those of Mario Maya and Eva Yerbabuena, among others, touring numerous national and international theaters and festivals.
After obtaining the Giraldillo for "most Innovative show" at the XIV Flamenco Biennial with "Malgama, Circontemporáneo y compás" (2005) and the Giraldillo "Revelación" at the Choni Cía. Flamenca is located in one of the most prominent companies in the avant-garde of current flamenco. But it is with "La Gloria de mi mare" (2010), awarded with numerous awards, and with "Compás de Espera" (2015), where he continues to show the versatility that characterizes this special company.
A versatile choreographer, she likes to bet on new evolutionary ingredients, new interpretive formulas and exquisite stage parameters, who knows how to surround herself with everyone and everyone who bets on renewed airs where disparate forms can coexist, creating risky choreographies but of overwhelming beauty and plasticity.
His artistic search has been recognized with — Giraldillo for “most innovative show” (2006), Giraldillo “Revelación” at the XV Bienal de Flamenco (2008), Best Show and Best Male Performance at the Seville Stage Awards (2011), Awards from Teatro Andaluz (2014) for Best Actor and Best Lighting, nominations for the Max Awards for the Performing Arts 2014 for Best Dance Show and Best Female Dance Performer, Circus Show Award at the III Teatro Andaluz Awards 2014, Lorca Awards 2016 for Musical Authorship, 2017 Lorca Awards for Best Show and Best Female Flamenco Dance Performer — and with the applause of the public and critics: A dance and a futuristic aesthetic conception (LA FLAMENCA MAGAZINE), The choreographies are risky and of a beauty and overwhelming plasticity (ANDALUCÍA NEWS), Choni dazzles when she begins to dance without music, and she does so by exercising mastery in her body (ABC), a dancer with the soul of music...poetry in her body... diverse, penetrating, novel, sharp and dominating of the silences (EL MUNDO), Little gem of theatrical flamenco (DEFLAMENCO.COM)
Awards
- 2017 Lorca Award for Best Show with “Compás de Espera”
- 2017 Lorca Award for Best Female Flamenco Dance Performer for “Compás de Espera”
- 2016 Lorca Award for Musical Authorship with “Reencuentro”
- 2014 Andaluz Theater Award for Circus Show with «Malgama 1.1»
- 2014 Max Awards Nomination Best Dance Show with “La Gloria de mi mare”
- 2014 Max Awards Nomination Best Female Performer for “La Gloria de mi mare”
- 2014 Andaluz Theater Award for Best Actor with “La Gloria de mi mare”
- 2014 Andaluz Theater Award for Best Lighting with “La Gloria de mi mare”
- 2011 Best Show on Wednesday Theater with “La Gloria de mi mare”
- 2011 Escenario de Sevilla Awards for Best Theater Show with “La Gloria de mi mare”
- 2011 Escenarios de Sevilla Awards for Best Male Performance for “La Gloria de mi mare”
- 2008 Best Theater Fair Show in the South with “Tejidos al Tiempo”
- 2008 Giraldillo «Revelation» at the XV Flamenco Biennial of Seville with «Tejidos al Tiempo»
- 2006 Giraldillo for the “most innovative show” at the XIV Flamenco Biennial with “Malgama, circontemporáneo y compás”
