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IDENTIFICATION AND BIO: An accomplished dancer and occasional choreographer, Juan Antonio was closely associated with the work of Louis Falco. He trained at the American Ballet Theatre School in New York and at the American Ballet Center before debuting with Nuevo Teatro de la Danza Mexico at age 18. At 19 he joined the Ballet Clasico de Mexico and went on to guest with such troupes as the Limon Dance Company and Netherlands Dance Theater, and with the companies of Pearl Lang, Anna Sokolow, Carmen de Lavallade, and Glen Tetley. He co-founded the Falco Company with Louis Falco in 1967 and became associate artistic director and choreographer of the company until the company disbanded in 1983. He also choreographed for the Ballet Nacional de Espana and later moved to Toronto to take the position of balletmaster and co-director of Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal. In 1985 he co-founded the Toronto-based company Confidanse, with Fanny Ghorayeb. The company performed in his honor August 1990 and officially folded in 1991.
KEY CONTACT PERSON(S)/EXECUTOR OF ESTATE:
Per Alan Sener, Desjardins was the executor of Antonio's estate. (Ghorayeb explains that Antonio did not have an official will, but his wishes were that the possessions go to Desjardins and the work to Ghorayeb.) After Antonio's death, Desjardins placed all of Antonio's material in a trunk. When Desjardins died, Fanny Ghorayeb called Sener, and they went through the material together, with the help of the executor of Desjardins's estate. Ghorayeb kept all material related to Confidanse, and Sener kept all materials pre-Canada, in his collection at the University of Iowa. Ghorayeb: "The material was in a trunk in a basement and I knew I needed to get it. What I have now is the trunk. Alan and I went through it and he took whatever related to Louis. And whatever remained I kept. Some videotapes, however, are missing. I think what happened is that when Charles passed away, the person in charge of his estate cleaned the house, and probably took videotapes and gave them to the family and threw the rest away. But I do have enough of a record to tell what most of the Confidanse pieces are."
Fanny Ghorayeb, Confidanse co-founder, secondary school teacher/artistic director
Alan Sener, Falco biographer
HUMAN REPOSITORIES OF THE WORK
Alan Sener (see above) regarding Falco
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION
Two boxes of videotapes from the Falco years are held in Sener's collection. Four videotapes of Antonio dancing in Falco's choreography are included in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library: Avenue (1974)—choreography by Louis Falco, 26 minutes, call number MGZIC 9-4410. Caviar (1970)—choreography by Louis Falco, 32 minutes, call number MGZIC 9-4411. Champagne (1977)—choreography by Louis Falco, 32 minutes, call number MGZIC 9-4466. Collisions (1976)—choreography by Louis Falco, 13 minutes, call number MGZIC 9-4470.
PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION
The Dance Collection of the New York Public Library holds an oversize file of photographs, call number MGZEAO.
MOVEMENT NOTATION
PRODUCTION MATERIALS
ORAL HISTORY:
For a biographical article on Antonio, see Goodman (1970) below.
PERSONAL PAPERS
Seven or eight boxes of personal papers are held in Sener's collection at the University of Iowa. See clippings file on "Antonio, Juan" at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library, call number MGZR. See also clippings file for "Contreras, Gloria," call number MGZR.
IMMEDIATE NEEDS
OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION:
PARTIAL LIST OF WORKS
Antonio staged Glen Tetley's Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain for Ballet Rambert in 1990. Although his obituary mentioned that he continued to choreograph up until his death, there is no record in the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library of his own work. The following works were created by Juan Antonio for the Louis Falco Dance Company: I Remember (1974) B-Mine (1976) Coasting (1977) Imago (1978) Tournament (1979) The Other One (1981)
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