Antonio Vílchez is a choreographer, percussionist and educator graduated in Arts and Pedagogy at the José María Arguedas National Superior School of Folklore in Peru.
Recognized as an innovative artist in 2014 by the UN magazine Americas Quarterly, he was invited to the ceremony to recognize El Cajón as a cultural heritage of the Americas, organized by the OAS.
In 2017 he was introduced as an artist who is “the future of tap” by Ms. Cornell at the 20th anniversary of “Tap Ahead” in Dusseldorf, Germany. Antonio’s art integrates traditional coastal dances from Peru, contemporary dance and tap. He is an important exponent of the diverse fusions characteristic of Peruvian art today, and of the search for Peruvian identity discovered through movement and fluidity.