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Carolina Lugo
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Age: 45
Website: www.carolinalugo.com
Country: United States
State: California
About: My name is Carolina Lugo, founding Artistic Drector for "Carolina Lugo's Brisas de España Flamenco Dance Company" which was established in 1995. Brisas de España Dance Company & Academy is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are recognized and sponsored by San Francisco Intersection For The Arts since 1997, California Arts Council since 1999, Zellerbach Family Foundation since 2000, California Alliance For Traditional Arts since 2006 and Fort Mason Foundation since 2006. As artistic director-choreographer, I have created over 25 new works for my dance company which have been critically acclaimed by dance and music critics throughout the USA and internationally in China. I have received numerous creative works awards for my choreographic pieces since 2000. I have dedicated my life to dance; creating it, teaching it, performing it, sharing my gift with dancers that I have met and worked with throughout my dance career, that I have taught, developed, mentored and coached, my students and the thousands of patrons and audiences that support my cultural art form, its beauty, richness and diversity. I am a consumate artist, living, breathing, thinking and demonstrating my passion, thirst and hunger for dance. I am like an addict that HAS TO DANCE, CREATE AND PERFORM. Brisas de España is one of the top 4 Flamenco-Spanish Dance Companies in California and is recognized as one of the leading dance companies in the United States. The company performs and has been presentd in a variety of different venues with multiple symphonies, philharmonic orchestras throughtout the West Coast, internationally in China, Opera Companies, major theaters, music halls, dinner theater, cabaret venues and television. In 1998 an Artist-In-Residence Program was established by Carolina to bring master teachers and Flameco artists from Spain and abroad to work with the dance company,academy students and open up the workshop to the Flamenco community in Northern California each year during the Summer months. I Love What I Do and Do What I Love To Do! 
Dance Resume: Professional Flamenco & Spanish Dance Artist-Choreographer-Master Teacher. Thoroughly trained in Flamenco, Spanish & Regional Dances from Spain, having studied in Spain with master teachers, Jose Cansino, Luisa Triana, Azurin, Teodoro Morca, Antonio Vargas, Concha Vargas, Manuel Betanzos and Pepa Montes. Thorough training in Classical Ballet with Vienna Wagner in Los Angeles and Sir Stanley Hall with the Royal Ballet, London. International Artist touring Mexico, Canada and China and nationally throughout the United States as guest star dancer with opera companies, symphonies, philharmonic orchestras and presented in majory theaters and music halls throughout the USA. Master Teacher in Flamenco & Spanish Dance. Master of the castanets, an intregal part of Spanish dance. Carolina has a music video of her castanet interpretation of "Leyenda/Asturias" shown on the national broadcast program National Arts Showcase. Carolina established a Flamenco-Spanish Dance Academy in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1995, where she trains and develops aspiring students who desire a career in the performing arts. Classes are held Monday thru Saturday at the main academy in Concord, CA, San Francisco and San Jose. In 1999, an Apprentice Training Program was established to train and develop dancers into Brisas de España Dance Company. It is a two year program and students are selected by audition only. Friends:
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