Joaquín Pedraja Reyes (known professionally as Joaquín Cortés; born February 22nd 1969) is a Spanish classically trained ballet and flamenco dancer.

Cortes was born to a Gitano family in Córdoba, Cortés showed interest in dancing from an early age. Cortés and his family moved to Madrid in 1981. Soon after moving to Madrid, he began to take formal dancing lessons and studying seriously.