Farruquito Tickets

Farruquito in Concert

In 1992, prodigious Farruquito caught global attention when he performed alongside his virtuosic, flamenco-dancing grandfather, Farruco, at Barcelona's Paralympic Games. Now an eminent act himself, Farruquito is a sight to behold: the Sevilla-born dancer incorporates the accented Gypsy-style dramatism of his family's tradition. 

His body postures tell stories filled with gut-wrenching emotion — tales of complex human relationships or wild animals in nature (an improvisational style his late grandfather created). When you see a live performance by Farruquito, expect an intense and gripping reverie of flamenco fierceness.

Farruquito Background

Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, better known as Farruquito, is heir to Spain's most venerated Gypsy flamenco dynasties. His dancing mother famously goes by La Farruca and his grandfather was El Farruco, widely considered one of the greatest flamenco dancers of the 20th century. 

Farruquito, born in 1982 in Sevilla, Andalucía, spent his entire life immersed in the art of flamenco. He made his dancing debut at age 4 in a Broadway show, ‘Flamenco Puro,' alongside his famous family. "That's when I fell in love with flamenco," he told The New York Times in 2014; the publication called him "the greatest flamenco dancer of this new century." 

By age 8, Farruquito was regularly performing his craft in the capital, Madrid. While still a youth, he also appeared in the 1995 Carlos Saura-directed documentary, ‘Flamenco,' which chronicled the centuries-old art form and its prominent players throughout history, thus launching Farruquito into stardom. 

In 2014, he came to the stage with Improvisao, a dance show exhibiting flamenco's ancient, freestyle approach. A few years later, he took the show abroad and performed it as part of New York's Flamenco Festival.