Carlota Santana, Artistic Director & Founder
Since 1983 Ms. Santana has pursued the Company's mission to promote flamenco and Spanish dance in the United States. Learn more.

Antonio Hidalgo, Associate Artistic Director of Tours, works with Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana as both a guest performer and choreographer and assists with the direction of the Company in all aspects of touring. Mr. Hidalgo has been a guest choreographer and principal dancer with Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana since 1997, performing on national tours and in the yearly season at the Joyce Theater in NYC. Read more.

Jessica Wilt, Director of Arts Education; Originally from Columbus, OH, Jessica began her career as a tap dancer and obtains an extensive K-12 and college teaching background.  She earned a BA in modern dance with dance education emphasis from the University of South Florida, an MFA in choreography from The Ohio State University and is currently completing her K-12 Dance Teacher Certification in New York. Jessica was previously the education and outreach manager for Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Dancing Through Barriers program and currently coordinates, manages and markets Project Olé programs for Flamenco Vivo.  She is an arts education council member with Americans for the Arts, a school board member with the VOICE Charter School in Long Island City, Queens and was recently accepted into the National Guild for Community Arts Education's 2012 Leadership Institute.

Leslie Roybal, Director of the Center for Flamenco Arts, a native of New Mexico, began her career at age 5 performing with a Mexican folkloric dance company. After a brief hiatus from dance while earning a BFA in Theater from Stephens College, she continued her dance education at the University of New Mexico where she studied Contemporary Dance with Bill Evans and Mary Ann Santos Newhall and Flamenco with Eva Encinias-Sandoval, Joaquin Encinias and Omayra Amaya. Proficient in both the Contemporary dance and Flamenco idioms, Leslie has performed in New York and throughout the U.S. with companies such as Murray Spalding Mandalas, Fred Darsow Dance, Neville Dance Company, The Metropolitan Opera (in Carmen and La Traviata as well as on tour in Japan), Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and in the New York and New Jersey tablaos. Most recently, Leslie worked with renowned dancer/choreographer Rosario Toledo in Philadelphia's First Flamenco Festival and directed Flamenco Vivo's Annual Tour of the Boros featuring flamenco artist Angel Muñoz. She was also recently named Director of The Center for Flamenco Arts at Flamenco Vivo.  As a teacher, Leslie leads lecture demonstrations, conducts workshops and Master Classes and gives lectures within the Contemporary Dance and Flamenco ideologies.

 

Hanaah Frechette, Company Manager: Originally from Syracuse, NY, Hanaah found her love of dance at an early age.  Hanaah recently graduated from Florida State University where she received a BFA in Dance and Spanish and studied under teachers such as Dan Wagoner, Gerri Houlihan and Jawole Zollar.  While at Florida State, Hanaah was the recipient of the Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors Award which allowed her to travel to Central America to study traditional dance techniques.  This sparked her curiosity in Spanish forms of cultural expression and instilled a love of traveling and arts-based research.  In addition to her working as Company Manager of Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Hanaah enjoys performing, teaching and choreographing.  She plans to continue working in the field of Arts Administration while enjoying the many creative opportunities within this vibrant NYC arts community.

 

• Ariana Markoe, Financial and Creative Consultant
• Monica Moore, Supervising Production Manager
• Clifton Taylor, Lighting Designer
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• Andrew Boardman, Website Design
• Patricia Westphal, Newsletter Editor
• Michael Spadaro, Technical Administration
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