Cristina Hoyos

Cristina Hoyos

Born: June 13, 1946
in Seville, Seville, Andalucía, Spain
Cristina Hoyos Panadero (Seville, Spain 13 June 1946) is a Spanish flamenco dancer, choreographer, and actress. After a successful worldwide career, she opened her own dance company in 1988 that premiered at the Rex Theatre in Paris. She played an important role during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.

Hoyos started dancing at the age of twelve in the children's show Galas Juveniles. In 1969, she joined the ballet company of Antonio Gades where she continued her work for more than two decades. During this time, she toured the world demonstrating her art and starred in the film trilogy Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo. In 1983, Hoyos played Carmen in the Antonio Gades ballet interpretation of Carmen in Paris. Her performance received rave reviews.

Cristina Hoyos has taken flamenco to all corners of the world, using it as a beautiful tool that has crossed borders and with which she has united different and distant peoples and cultures, just using the tail of the gown and her heels.

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Marisol, llámame Pepa
Title: Marisol, llámame Pepa
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2024
Type: Movie
The child prodigy Marisol was immortalized almost daily, in an overexposure that ended up erasing the limits between the character and her own life. This is the first rigorous approach to the figure and myth of Marisol that includes her international successes with unpublished images from her tours in Japan, Angola, the USA, Argentina and Peru.
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Jokes & Cigarettes
Title: Jokes & Cigarettes
Character: Conchita's Mother
Released: November 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Barcelona, Spain, in the late sixties. Eugenio, a young jeweler who has fallen in love with Conchita, a singer, to the point of learning to play the guitar to accompany her in her performances, will first have to learn to overcome his stage fright.
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Fosforito: una historia de flamenco
Title: Fosforito: una historia de flamenco
Released: January 1, 2021
Type: Movie
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El secadero de iguanas
Title: El secadero de iguanas
Character: Matriarch
Released: November 11, 2018
Type: Movie
A bar in the middle of nowhere. A girl facing her demons. Her twin brother. An incestuous relationship. A mother they never met. A violent, alcoholic father. The nomads' periodic visitations.
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Segunda oportunidad
Title: Segunda oportunidad
Character: Juana
Released: November 3, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: "El brujo" frente al espejo
Released: January 30, 2013
Type: Movie
The sporting career of Enrique Castro "Quini" took him to the top of his profession of football. But what really makes it special and unique is its ability to self-improvement, overcoming life experiences very hard and complicated.
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La balada del estrecho
Title: La balada del estrecho
Character: María
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Samuel returns to town after many years after fleeing for drug problems. Life has not gone well and things do not change back. He has inherited the old hotel of Leo, an old friend, who had dealings with André, a drug dealer who stole before he died. Now he claims the drug André Samuel, but he knows nothing and with the help of Matthew lays out a plan where all are revealed.
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Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
Title: Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
Character: Self
Released: March 18, 2007
Type: Movie
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Antártida
Title: Antártida
Character: Dueña del bar
Released: September 8, 1995
Type: Movie
A rock star falls in love with a common pickpocket without any personal history. But soon she finds herself in a contraband of drugs and both try to escape it.
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All Men Are the Same
Title: All Men Are the Same
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Three divorced men who share a flat live together without trouble until they hire a cleaning lady.
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X Is Y
Title: X Is Y
Released: September 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Experimental film consisting of images of young women handling automatic handguns and rifles.
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Carmen on Ice
Title: Carmen on Ice
Released: February 8, 1990
Type: Movie
Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée.
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Angels
Title: Angels
Character: La Molina
Released: February 7, 1990
Type: Movie
The American musician Rickie falls in love with the prostitute Sara, who pretends to be a princess. As they escape together, Rickie gets into a dangerous adventure.
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Montoyas y Tarantos
Title: Montoyas y Tarantos
Released: October 2, 1989
Type: Movie
History about hate and passion between two gypsy families.
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Title: Juncal
Character: Rosario
Released: February 18, 1989
Type: TV
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Title: The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Character: María Picasso
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
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El amor brujo
Title: El amor brujo
Character: Candela
Released: March 23, 1986
Type: Movie
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Dancer
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.
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Carmen
Title: Carmen
Character: Cristina
Released: May 6, 1983
Type: Movie
While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.
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Blood Wedding
Title: Blood Wedding
Character: Bride
Released: October 25, 1981
Type: Movie
A bride elopes with her lover on the very day of her wedding. The groom follows the two lovers, and a knife fight takes place. The rivals stab each other and the only wedding that takes place is that one knotting their destinies together in death. A blood wedding.
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Bewitched Love
Title: Bewitched Love
Character: Bailaora
Released: June 22, 1967
Type: Movie
This tragic drama is based on the ballet by famed composer Manuel De Falla. A young woman is caught between the violent struggle of two rival suitors who love her passionately. Candelas (La Polaca) is pursued by kind-hearted Antonio (Antonio Gades) and the evil diablo Diego (Rafael Cordova). Lucia (Morucha) is the cryptic gypsy fortune teller, with Fernando Sanchez Polack as Candela's beloved father.
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The Last Meeting
Title: The Last Meeting
Character: Bailaora (herself)
Released: June 8, 1967
Type: Movie
A flamenco dancer (Antonio Gades) reflects on his life and career when he is surprised to be honored on a television show telling his life story. The memories stir up controversy, and an old friend seeks retribution as Antonio had once stolen his girl.