Juan Carlos Requena

Carlos was born i Chile where he attended The Santiago Ballet School 1983-85. When he came to Sweden he trained at the Swedish School of Ballet in Stockholm and was then employed at Stora Teatern in 1987 (later the Göteborg Ballet). During the years Carlos has danced a number of roles, e.g.the Jester in Swanlake, Dansvurmen by Ivo Cramer, Solotango in Robert North's Matisse, Pas de trois in la Ventana by Kerstin Ralov, Mellan två vatten by Robert North, Harmageddon by Ulf Gadd, Solo in Sylfiden by Marianne von Rosen, Mats Ek's Giselle and Ohad Naharins Axioma 7. Carlos likes to work with his own choreographies and has choreographed a piece by M. Falla, which was performed at the Göteborg Opera's Twelfth Night Concert and Ball, and he also performed at the 2001 Twelfth Night Ball with music by Siegfried Köhler.