Guillem Alonso

Guillem is the director of the Luthier Professional Tap Program at Escola Luthier Dansa in Barcelona.

Born in Barcelona, he 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. In 1993 he won the first prize at the World Tap Dance Championship in Switzerland, organized by the IDO (International Dance Organization). 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.

In 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. Sardà and has been the organizer and host of the Tap Jams (weekly tap improvisation sessions).

From 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 És 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 Tàrrega (Spain). He has also choreographed and danced in the shows Tap Olé, premiered in Chicago, and Boogie Woogie Tap with the Lluís 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.

Guillem 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. He has won the 2010 Dansacat Award in recognition of his professional career and in 2023 the Claqueta Award.

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