Guillem is the director of the Luthier Professional Tap Program at Escola Luthier Dansa in Barcelona.<\/p>\n
Born in Barcelona in 1973, started his first tap dance lessons at the age of 8. Received grants from the Generalitat de Catalunya to study tap dance in New York with dancers such as Brenda Bufalino, Barbara Duffy and Savion Glover, among others. While in the US, he has been part of the tap dance companies: American Tap Dance Orchestra, Manhattan Tap and The Tap Collective in New York, as well as Steps Ahead (Los Angeles), with whom he has performed throughout the United States and Europe.
\nIn Spain, he danced in the shows Keatoniana, New Orleans Jazz Tap and Sax Tap and danced and choreographed El Nas Vermell and Scandal. Guillem also performed at the 1999 Goya Awards ceremony with Rosa M. Sard\u00e0 and has been the organizer and host of the Tap Jams (weekly tap improvisation sessions).
\nFrom 2000 to 2002 he was a solo tap dancer in the show Fire Of Dance with which he toured around Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Holland, Slovakia, Hungary and Belgium. With the show La Vida Es Ritme, which he co-created with the company Camut Band, he performed in Broadway at the New Victory Theater, as well as festivals in Edinburgh (Scotland), Toronto (Canada), New Haven (USA), Greenwich (Great Britain) and T\u00e0rrega (Spain). He has also choreographed and danced in the shows Tap Ol\u00e9, premiered in Chicago, and Boogie Woogie Tap with the Llu\u00eds Coloma trio. He is the director of the company Barcelona Rhythm Tap and is one of the few dancers who practice sand dance, with which he has gained international prestige and recognition.
\nGuillem Alonso has been, as a teacher and organizer, the promoter of a new generation of tap dancers in Barcelona. Currently, he directs the Escola Luthier Dansa (Barcelona), where he organizes his open to dancers from all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2213,"menu_order":6,"template":"","tags-teachers":[12],"class_list":["post-3206","teachers","type-teachers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tags-teachers-teacher"],"yoast_head":"\n