Antonio Najarro, a flamenco choreographer at the Winter Olympic Games

Antonio Najarro, a flamenco choreographer at the Winter Olympic Games

When he was a child, Antonio Najarro, 50, would skate from his home to the Conservatory. His calling was dance, and he pursued it until becoming a leading figure in Spanish dance and flamenco, eventually directing the National Ballet of Spain from 2011 to 2019. He had no idea back then that skating would become another way of shaping and spreading dance. He didn’t even fully grasp it in 2002, when he received his first request to create a choreo…