Recently Antonio has concentrated on creating special choreographic commissions and on developing new concepts for future productions. These will involve not only the traditional flamenco repertoire but also the interpretation of well-known works (from Greek mythology to Karl Orff's Carmina Burana) by flamenco artists.

From April to June 1999 Antonio choreographed and staged a flamenco segment for Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible II, directed by John Woo. He also played a cameo-role in the same film. 

Mosaico Flamenco, a collaborative project showing works in progress, premiered in San Diego, California, in February 2000. He returned to the US in 2001, with Laberinto Flamenco, touring San Diego, Boston, New Hampshire, New York, Washington DC and Mexico; and in 2002, with guest appearances at the Chicago Flamenco Festival and in Washington, Las Vegas and Albuquerque.

In The House Plus (Sydney, Sep-Oct 2001) Antonio revisited Lorca’s The house of Bernarda Alba from a different angle, transforming it into a contemporary dance work.

New Zealand was also a popular location with performances in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin in 2001-2. Kathleen’s Antartic, a multi-media production on the life of Kathleen Scott, the wife of Robert Falcon Scott (played by Antonio), had its world premiere at the Fortune Theatre in Dunedin in March 2002.

Singapore (2002-2005) has been another extremely popular stop for Antonio, and promises to be a very important gateway to Asia, with the opening of the New Arts Centre at the Old Parliament House and other activities in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and China.

He returned to the US in 2003, 2004 and 2005, but has concentrated mainly on the writing and production of a Flamenco Manual/DVD series that cover musical relationships, structure of the various Flamenco songs and introduces his own Flamenco Notation System.  All filmed in and near Madrid, the first 3 DVDs feature Antonio Vargas and other world-renowned flamenco artists such as Talegón de Córdoba, Domingo Ortega, Andrés Peña Morón, Rafael Campallo, Rafael Jiménez “El Falo”, and many others.  This project is being launched in 2006 and the next series will feature Belén Fernandez, Luisa Triana and Mercedes Ruiz, winner of the 2002 Bienal de Sevilla.

From September to November 2006 Antonio is touring the USA with performances, lectures and workshops in Kansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Texas, California and Washington DC.