Rubén Pérez

Rubén was born in Madrid. In 1999 he began his training as a dancer at the Carmen Senra school with Tino Roich. In 2001 he was awarded a scholarship to study in Berlin at the TapaToe school under the supervision of Cristina Delius and Anina Krüger. During this period he took Workshops with renowned tap dancers such as: Brenda Bufalino, Tomas Marek, Max Pollak, Sebastian Weber and Josh Hilberman.

In 2005 he traveled to New York to train in the art of Rhythm Tap.

In 2006 he settled in Barcelona and took classes with Guillem Alonso, Roser Font, Roxane Butterfly and Laia Molins, among others.

As a tap dancer he has been a member of the following companies: Contaptoe, Madrid 2002; Collaborator of the Rafael Amargo company, Barcelona 2006, 2007; Barcelona Rhythm Tap, Barcelona 2008; Orchestra, Hamburg 2009, 2010 – Dusseldorf 2009 – Zurich 2009; Hermanos de Baile, Barcelona 2008, 2010, Trakatap 2007 – 2014. Taparpegics 2010 – 2013

Since 2009 Rubén has been a member of the Tap Olé company with the show Tapeando and is an understudy with the Tap Olé show.

From 2014 to present he is a member of the ExhiBeat company, he has also been

the principal dancer of Cambuyon company from 2017 to present.

Rubén has participated in the IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX and X Tap Festival of Barcelona.

He was the guest artist at; Tap Ahead Tap Festival, Düsseldorf 2009, Tap on Barcelona 2010, Blue Tap-Festival Berlin 2012 and at the XXIV Reus Tap Festival 2012. He was also the guest artist at the Avoriaz Dance Festival (France) from 2016 to 2019.

Throughout his career he has taught tap dance classes in different schools in Madrid, Berlin, France and currently in Barcelona.

Rubén is part of the faculty for the Professional Tap Training Programme at Escola Luthier.