{"id":4675,"date":"2023-09-29T20:16:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T20:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elsolfestival.pl\/artist\/maykel-fonts\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:02:04","slug":"maykel-fonts","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/elsolfestival.pl\/en\/speaker\/maykel-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Maykel Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maykel was born in Havana 10.10.1976.<br \/>\nHe graduated from one of the most famous schools in Cuba, Tropicana, where he studied classical dance, afro, contemporary, rumba and then became part of the professional dance company.<br \/>\nIn 2000 he moved to Italy with the group \u201eIre Bata\u201d.<br \/>\nHe developed there and perfected his skills in afro, classical ballet, jazz, contemporary, hip hip, flamenco and latin american dances.<br \/>\nHe was a dancer on italian TV in multiple productions, from 2002 he started travelling internationally as a teacher, performer and choreographer.<br \/>\nIn 2011 he appeared as the protagonist\u2019s dance partner in the movie \u201eStreetdance 2 3D\u201d, choreographer of the latin dance parts and as an actor.<br \/>\nHis other important appearances include:<br \/>\n&#8211; a choreographer and lead dancer in Havana d\u2019Primera\u2019s new video \u201eal final de la vida\u201d 2011<br \/>\n&#8211; \u201eCroma Latina\u201d videoclip choreographer and dancer, 2011<br \/>\n&#8211; actor in a Nescafe commercial, 2012<br \/>\n&#8211; coauthor and singer in \u201edale lo que lleva\u201d by Maykel Blanco, 2013<br \/>\n&#8211; choreographer and dancer in the national TV dancing with the stars \u201eballando con le stelle\u201d Rai 1.: 2013 &#8211; partnering a famouse actress Veronica Logan,2014- with Giorgia Surina, 2016 with Asia Argento, 2017 Giuliana de Sio, 2020 Alessandra Mussolini, 2021 singer Mieta<br \/>\n&#8211; from 2015 main dancer in a spectacle  \u201cSon, Mambo y Cha cha ch\u00e1\u201c with Isaac Delgado<br \/>\n&#8211;  choreographer and dancer in \u201c El que este que tumbe\u201c by  Havana de primera. He obtained the prize Lucas for the best choreographer in Cuba<\/p>\n<p>Maykel continues to impress and inspire the international dance community, this year he brings his group to elSol and he will be teaching a bootcamp with Marco Ferrigno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6172,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsolfestival.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/4675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsolfestival.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsolfestival.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elsolfestival.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elsolfestival.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}