Ballet Flamenco is recognized as one of the top Flamenco & Spanish Dance Company's in the America's. The uniqueness of company emanates from the combination of Flamenco & Spanish dance presented on stage by Artistic Director, Carolina Lugo & Carolé Acuña. Their artistic vision which brings top international Flamenco artists from Spain and abroad to grace the stage with her and her company, interweaves the extraordinary talents of these artists with melodic palates of musical virtuosity and colorful step design with the clever staging of dancers and musicians interlacing rhythms with one another to create a colorful canvas of artists on stage.

The Company is a non-profit organization chartered to share the rich traditions of dance, music, literature and culture of Spain with all communities, and to be a center, which encourages new artistic creativity within the framework of the Iberian-Hispano experience. The Company represents a diversity of cultures from around the globe, appearing in a broad spectrum of creative mediums, including, television, dinner theater, cabaret venues, opera and symphonic formats.

"The dance scene has seen a rebirth of the influence of Flamenco & Spanish dance. The excitement is very present in Ballet Flamenco." Contra Costa Times veteran dance critic, Marilyn Tucker said, "Lugo who earned her Spanish Dance stripes early on with veteran performer Lola Montes, proves herself adapt in choreographing story dances based on the traditions of classical court dances... pure dance poetry."

America has a long tradition of Spanish Dance performances with orchestrations. Drawing on Flamenco, Classical Ballet, Regional and School dance roots. Neo-classical Spanish dance developed through the genius of the Argentine-born Spanish dancer, La Argentina, who was the first to dance to the music of leading Spanish composers, such as Isaac Albeniz and Manuel de Falla. Antonio Triana was La Argentina's dance partner and collaborator and later mentor and dance partner for Lola Montes who passed on the legacy of these traditions to Carolina Lugo.

Ballet Flamenco has averaged more than 30 performances per year over the last sixteen years with an annual home concert season at the Dean Lesher Theatre in Walnut Creek . The company has been presented in concert at the Fox Theater, Redwood City, Flint Center, Cupertino, San Mateo Performing Arts Center, Pioneer Center, Reno, Nevada, Luther Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, Eureka Theater, San Francisco, Village Theater, Danville, Marin Center, San Rafael, Mendocino Music Festival, Dean Lesher Performing Arts Center, Walnut Creek, the Varsity Theater, Davis, Wente Winery, Stony Ridge Winery in Livermore and the Memorial Auditorium , Sacramento.

In 1999, Carolina & Carolé were featured guest artist along with her Company and performed with the Eagles at Stars to The Rescue concert for Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation and in 2001 with Michael Bolton at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland. The Company performs in night clubs, dinner theater formats throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and on the West Coast. The  company frequently performs  at corporate and fundraising events for such organizations as the Peninsula Symphony, The American Cancer Society, California Symphony, Leukemia Society, Lawrence Livermore Lab, Camillia Symphony, National Association of Realtors, UC Davis Retirement Alumni Association and many others.

Carolina & Carolé have received a great deal of recognition over the last sixteen years.  Since 2000, they have been recognized for their creative talents and has received multiple creative works awards for her choreographic pieces and community outreach from the California Arts Council, Diablo Regional Arts Association, Zellerbach Family Foundation Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation, the Town of Danville, California Alliance For Traditional Arts , Thomas Longs Foundation and Fort Mason Foundation.

To learn more about sponsorship, become a sponsor or make a tax deductible contribution, please contact Carolina Lugo or Richard Tonkin, Executive Director at 510-504-4448 or email: carolinalugo1@msn.com

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