OLIVIA ROJO was trained in jazz and ballet, and professional ballroom before embracing flamenco as a student, performer, and director of her own company, Flamenco y Más. Cultivated the Arizona flamenco audience and brought together community, students and international artists for 13 years. In 2001 Olivia was awarded recognition by the Governor for the preservation of Spanish culture in Arizona. She has collaborated with many US flamenco artists and studied with masters from Spain, including Juana Amaya, Matilde Coral, Antonio Canales and Jose Galvan. Olivia currently teaches at DC Dance Collective.

DEBRA BELO has performed with Pablo Rodarte (CO), The Denver Symphony Orchestra, the dance companies of Carlos Lomas and Vicente Romero (NM). She has also conducted workshops in Germany, and has appeared as a solo artist with both the "In Series" Zarzuela productions and The Washington National Opera. She continues to study with some of Spain's most elite artists. Debra currently performs and teaches locally in the Washington Metro area.

JACKIE PERODIN initially studied flamenco in Quebec, Canada, through a series of workshops with various artists. In 1998, she joined a group of performers called Luna Flamenca as a performer, as well as an events coordinator. In Boston, MA, she had the opportunity to study with Omayra Amaya and La Meira. While in D.C., she has followed classes with Sara Candela, Anna Menendez, Edwin Aparicio and Ulrika Frank prior to joining the Mirada Flamenca Dance Company.

NICOLE TOTAH has been dancing ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, belly dance, and, since 2002, flamenco. She joined her first dance company in high school, the Potomac Dance Ensemble. Thereafter, she performed and choreographed for her college's dance company, Arts House Dance, and performed and choreographed in the DC area with Jam Crew. Nicole initiated her flamenco instruction with Ana Martinez in Washington DC, and then continued her studies with Anna Menendez and Ulrika Frank.

RENÉE GOKEY began her training at the U of New Mexico with celebrated U.S. teachers including Eva Encinias-Sandoval, Pablo Rodarte, Joaquin Encinias, and Omayra Amaya. She has studied and performed with the Spanish Dance Society at Gaulladet U and at the Carnegie Institute in Washington, D.C. She has studied in Spain and at the Festival Flamenco with various artists including Monica Bermudez, Carmela Greco, Karime Amaya and Antonio Vargas.

MARIA RONCAL trained intensively at the Fundación de Cristina Heeren and Academia de Baile de Manolo Marín in Sevilla, Spain where she lived from 2002 to 2003 learning from flamenco masters such as Milagros Menjíbar, Manolo Soler, Rafael Campallo, Carmen Ledesma, Asunción Pérez, Adela Campallo, Pili Ortega and Manuel Betanzos. She has performed at Café Sol, Café Cantante in Sevilla and in theatres, events, and festivals all over the Washington DC area. Currently Maria teaches flamenco dance at DC Dance Collective.

SHARON GARCIA-OLVERA was born in Monterrey, Mexico. She has been dancing jazz, tapp and modern dances. She began studying flamenco at "Instituto Real Flamenco de Monterrey" with dancer and choreographer Betty Villarreal. She then joined Betty Villarreal's flamenco dance company as a performer. While in Washington, D.C., she followed workshops with Antonio Vargas and "La Truco", and continued her studies with Ulrika Frank.