After Dinner Speakers: Joaquin Cortes, Tim Foster, Jean-Paul Gaultier

Joaquin Cortés has helped make flamenco one of the most popular dance forms in the world today. As well as starring in films, he has been described as “the sexiest Spanish icon since Antonio Banderas” and faced huge media attention from the press about his relationship with supermodel Naomi Campbell. Of gipsy blood, he was born in Cordoba in 1969 and at the age of twelve, moved to Madrid where he began his dance training. He joined the Spanish National Ballet when he was fifteen and quickly rose to the ranks of solo artist. Joaquín has toured all over the world with this company, performing in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and the Kremlin´s Congress Palace in Moscow.