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**QUICK OVERVIEW**
–Award Winning & Critically Acclaimed: As seen on So You Think You Can Dance, Lucas Films, Jennifer Lopez’s ¡Qué Viva! The Chosen, Shanghai Opera and more…

–Since 1894, from five generations of a Gitano family flamenco & Spanish dance legacy: Along with her Lugo family legacy, Ms. Flamenco was selected to be part of the prestigious Pastora Imperio flamenco legacy, as well as the Sanford Meisner acting legacy. Her physical stand-up comedy is inspired by the Charlie Chaplin lineage, while her contemporary dance has a Limón/Horton/Graham/Moses influence. Her vocal range is alto soprano.

-What we do: Traditional and experimental flamenco, contemporary & Spanish dance (classical/regional), acting, stand-up comedy, singing, music, somatics. We perform with symphonies, operas, theatres of all sizes, at wineries, company events, spiritual body connected healing, weddings, birthdays, choreograph wedding & quinceañera dances, do lecture demos, special recordings, and so on. Book your events today!

–Headquartered in San Francisco CA, we work internationally with the intention of bringing communities together to help our world be brighter.

-The professional company was founded by Carolina Lugo in 1995 and is now under the direction of:

Ms. CarOlé Tachíria Acuña Flamenco (first name, two middle names, one last name). 

Pronounced “Car • Olé + Tah • Chiri • Ah + Ah • Koon • Ya + Flah • Men • Koh”

-CarOlé Flamenco carries on her family’s lecacy by helping with the preservation, evolution and awareness of the multi-cultural Gitano art form of Flamenco, as well as the various dances and theatrical performances of Spain plus anything relating to the Spanish language…and stand-up comedy. 

-We cultivate a breeding ground for artistic manifestation while making it accessible to many communities by utilizing the mediums of dance, theatre, stand-up comedy, through collaboration, performance, and education.

**REVIEWS**

”CarOlé is hilarious, she has qualities like Jim Carrey and Robin Williams mixed with her Latina pizazz” -Cue Productions

“Top Flamenco Dancer in America” -So You Think You Can Dance

“Flamenco star, Ms. CarOlé Flamenco, brings the soul of Spain to San Francisco” -Sunset Magazine

”Watching Ms. Flamenco’s artistry is mesmerizing, she is a star in her own right” -Oakland Tribune

”CarOlé is one of the funniest comedians in the Bay Area, with her huge physicality and energy!” -Oakland Tribune

”Watching this company is like watching pure dance poetry” -Classical Voice

“A sensuous and generous artist, CarOlé is wise beyond her years and it shows in her art making” -So You Think You Can Dance Judge

“Ms. CarOlé Tachíria Acuña Flamenco is equally talented as a singer, comedian, actor, dancer; she is an artist you must see again and again” -Special Guest App CEO

**EVENTS**

There are regular events in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally and internationally (most are not posted here due to the various bookers’ publicity agendas, public and private events that happen)

This gets updated often so please check back…

Monthly shows coming in 2026 with flamenco & stand-up comedy…FlamenComedy…

•31st Anniversary Season is in the works and will premiere in 2027!

•Ms. Flamenco will premiere her most recent one person show in 2027! There is a lot of behind the scenes work happening with acting, dancing, comedy-ing, singing…more information coming!

•Site Specific Flamenco Shows – Join Ms. Flamenco with surprise, world class guests! These happen during special events and upcoming dates/locations will be posted soon…

Large theatre, symphony, opera, corporate, private events have their own methods of generating an audience, so no ticket link is needed for those on this site. Please check back and reach out for more opportunities for the general public to experience this energetic soloist and the company as well. We can brighten your event!

**MASTER-WORKSHOPS – GROUP & PRIVATE – LIVE & ONLINE**

Please email Ms. Flamenco to register in advance for private lessons, master-workshops, to book specialty classes and for more information. See you there! caroleflamenco@gmail.com

Ms. Flamenco has her unique pedagogy. Group and private master-workshops in: dance (of course…FLAMENCO, and also ballet, contemporary, Spanish dance *classical/regional*, various partner dances), Meisner based and comedic acting, stand-up comedy, singing, one person show construction. Group master-workshops and private lessons are happening regularly/available for booking in your area.

Master-workshops and private lessons are at Alonzo King’s LINES Dance Center, Impact Arts, Desert Dream Dance, Shawl Anderson Dance Studio, people’s homes, in parks, on beaches, at gyms, in offices on zoom and more. Book your private lesson package and group master-workshops today!

A Few Scheduled Classes

•FLAMENCO DANCE, CONTEMPORARY DANCE, ACTING, SINGING, RHYTHM, SOMATICS MASTER-WORKSHOPS & PRIVATE LESSONS:

SUNDAYS, MONDAYS, TUESDAYS in San Francisco, CA – One SATURDAY a month in Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Santa Rosa, Livermore and more…

•Specialty ONE PERSON SHOW in-person & zoom private coaching as well as group workshops. This helps you pave the way to the story inside of you, in a supportive, growth oriented environment. Register today.

**BIOS**

ABOUT CAROLÉ FLAMENCO

(Short and in-depth)

-SHORT BIO-

Principle Artist/Director:

Known as a dynamic artist, CAROLÉ TACHÍRIA ACUÑA FLAMENCO is the fifth generation flamenco & Spanish dancer in her Gitano family legacy, a Meisner & AEA Union actor, stand-up comedian, singer, choreographer, author, a Masters of Fine Arts candidate, flamencologist. She grew up dancing flamenco and Spanish dance in the home with her mother, Carolina Lugo and other family members. She is the private protégé of Pepa Montes; part of the prestigious flamenco schooling lineage of Pastora Imperio and Matilde Coral and trained in ballet, modern, contemporary dance as well. She also studied with Lola Montes, Rosa Montoya, Christian Almodóvar, Manuel Betanzos, Esperanza Fernández, Concha Vargas, Miguel Vargas, El Torómbo, Farruquito, Robert Moses, Jim Jarrett, Cheryl Chaddick, Eddie Brill, Kati Mejia, among others. Ms. Flamenco studied acting at American Conservatory Theatre and also trained at a specialty Meisner acting conservatory with Sanford Meisner’s last teaching protégée for two years, as well as five years in the professional actor’s studio and one year focused on teaching the Meisner technique. She is the director of FLAMENCO SPANISH DANCE THEATRE of AMÉRICA (founded by Carolina Lugo in 1995). A couple things Ms. Flamenco is currently working on, are the company’s next anniversary season as well as her one person show, that Don Reed is helping guide the creation process of. She performs in large theatres, with symphonies, operas, in film, television, commercials, web-series, comedy clubs and special story telling shows. She has done voice acting and percussion recordings for Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC and was one of the hand picked artists by Jennifer Lopez to be on “¡Qué Viva! The Chosen”.

-IN-DEPTH BIO-

CarOlé Tachíria Acuña Flamenco is an actor, the fifth generation flamenco & Spanish dancer in a Gitano family legacy, contemporary/ballet/jazz/partner dancer, model, stand-up comedian, singer, author, choreographer, flamencologist, director. Her work can be seen in film, television, streaming, commercials, theatres, books, as well as other mediums. She has done voice over work and percussive recordings for Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC.

A next generation artist, millennial, BIPOC, mixed race, Yaqui, Afro-Latina/e, Gitana, Sephardic Jewish, two spirit, feminist, survivor of rape, domestic violence, cancer and now a thriver; Ms. Flamenco is here to help people through her work. She turned professional at fourteen and has over fifteen years of experience. She has been named the “Top flamenco dancer in America” by the So You Think You Can Dance judges, is a Meisner Film Festival Best Actress Winner, Mexico City Fashion Film Festival Best Actress nominee, is one of the featured professionals as “Living the Dream” & named a “Flamenco Star” by Sunset Magazine, is an Isadora Duncan Dance Award elite nominee in individual performance, named “One of the funniest stand-up comedians in the Bay Area” by the Contra Costa Times. She was one of the first originally chosen artists by Jennifer Lopez to be in “¡Que Viva! The Chosen”. While being multifaceted, she respects the intricacies of each discipline, has studied each one vigorously, is growth oriented, continuously evolving. Her chosen genres are specific to her unique artistic vision and it shows in her work. The profoundly diverse and complex way of life, art-form, culture that is flamenco is at the core of all of it; which she finds the relation to in many aspects of life.

Having grown up in a flamenco and Spanish dance house hold, Ms. Flamenco’s mother, Flamenco and Spanish dance legend, Carolina Lugo and grandmother taught her dance while various international artists came to live and collaborate with shows. Starting her training in ballet at the age of three, Ms. Flamenco balanced ballet, Spanish dance, flamenco and school before turning professional at fourteen years of age with Rosa Montoya. At 16, she started intensively studying modern and contemporary dance with Cheryl Chaddick and Robert Moses, she joined Ms. Lugo’s company, Brisas de España (later named Ballet Flamenco). Ms. Flamenco then created her own company at age 18 in Sevilla, Spain, Acuña Danza Teatro which is now called CarOlé Flamenco’s FLAMENCO SPANISH DANCE THEATRE of AMÉRICA. She also started dancing/choreographing with many other companies, prominent figures and in films: some are listed below.

With the humble honor of being the flamenco protégé of Pepa Montes in Sevilla, Spain, Ms. Flamenco has been living and intensively training every two years since she was invited during a dance tour when she was eighteen. This is the prestigious school from Matilde Coral and Pastora Imperio. She has also studied with many more flamenco greats in Spain: El Torómbo, Farruquito, Esperanza Fernández, Concha Vargas, Lola Montes, Cristian Almodóvar, Miguel Betanzos, Antonio Vargas to name a few. She dances Spanish contemporary dance there as well.

There was always a love for acting, singing, creating plays, and Ms. Flamenco was nominated the class clown a couple of times in school, while simultaneously being on the honor role and nominated the “teacher’s pet”. So, becoming an actor, singer and comedian seemed like a good fit as well (flamenco can also contain these elements at times). So she also became a professional actor, singer and comedian at the age of twenty two, after she went through intensive training with various world class artists. She later also went to American Conservatory Theatre and San Francisco State University to receive a degree in Dance/Theatre with a dance base in modern/contemporary dance with the Horton technique. Ms. Flamenco also studied with Sanford Meisner’s last teaching protege, in an intensive two year acting program. She went on, to be in the professional Meisner actor’s studio for five years, did one year of private coaching, on how to teach the Meisner technique. With this specific focused background, she performs, writes and directs musical theatre productions with her company, and as a guest artist. She is a flamencologist, being a Masters of Fine Arts Candidate in Dance/Theatre with a focus on Flamenco at Saint Mary’s College of California. She has written a children’s book, a book of poems, one act plays, full length plays, commercial scripts, stand-up comedy routines, screenplays, her one person show.

Ms. CarOlé Flamenco has performed as a soloist for: Shanghai Opera, Skywalker Ranch, San Francisco Symphony, Skywalker Sound, The Punchline in San Francisco & Sacramento, California Symphony, Golden Gate Opera, Mendocino Symphony, Chicago Models, Caminos Flamencos, VitaClay, Oregon Flamenco, Peninsula Symphony, Caroline’s New York, San Jose Improv, Oakland Ballet, New York Brooklyn Church, The Dungeon of San Francisco, Herbst Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre, Venetto Quartet, Dos Hermanas Peña, So You Think You Can Dance, San Francisco City Hall, Porto Theatre, British Colombia Theatre, Katiedid Dance Company, Urban Jazz Dance Company, Montes Dance Company, Benicia Ballet, Encore Gymnastics, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Blues Los Angeles, Rooster T. Feathers, The Function Comedy Club, to name a few.

She has performed on the same stages and films with James Franco, Sean Penn, Jim Parrack, Pepa Montes, Joan Spangler, Pedro Ricardo Miño, Eddie Brill, Ali Wong, David Usner, Kevin Avery, W. Kamau Bell, Melissa Thompson-Esaia, Cristina Hoyos, Kurtis Matthews, Ricardo Miño, Antonio Vargas, Carlos Ubillus, Concha Vargas, Santiago Rosas, Nick Fragiliani, Pascuale Esposito, Stroy Moyd, Stephanie Sherman, Cristian Almodóvar, Hunter Nolan, Manuel Betánzos, Jesús Herrera, Dee Spencer, Joaquín Encinias, Chelle Jaques, El Moreno, Roberto Zamora, Jesús Montoya and many more.

*Resume available upon request

**ABOUT THE COMPANY FSDT**

The oldest and considered the premier company for flamenco & Spanish dance theatre in the Americas, the professional company was founded in 1995 by Carolina Lugo, the world renowned virtuoso and legend who passed away young, in her 60’s, in 2023. https://online.flippingbook.com/view/872784753/26/

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF Ms. CarOlé Flamenco, this is her family’s legacy that she is honored to share with the world; tradition, evolution, experimentation. From traditional flamenco to experimental art, there are a variety of artistic works for you to experience. We perform with symphonies, operas, theatres of all sizes, at wineries, company events, weddings, birthdays, choreograph wedding & quinceañera dances, do lecture demos, special recordings, and so on.

The flamenco & Spanish dance company was originally named Brisas de España, then it was later named Ballet Flamenco. It is now under the direction of the prolific artist and daughter of Ms. Lugo, Ms. CarOlé Tachíria Acuña Flamenco where she continues with dance and adds her other artistic genres of expertise.

Ms. Flamenco nourishes artistic inventiveness by the utilizing elements within the realms of flamenco (traditional & contemporary) and Spanish dance (classical/contemporary/folk), which can include music, song, acting, comedy. A unique style of musical theatre. While honoring tradition and cultivating evolution on a global scale; there are performances, collaborations and educational opportunities for all communities. She works as a soloist, is the director of a company of artists and directs other projects as well. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, we work both nationally and internationally.

We…

-Help spread the awareness of the multi-cultural Gitano art form of flamenco with roots in India, Southwest Asia, West & North Africa, Southern Spain, Indigenous & African cultures in America.

-Help spread an awareness of the many dances & theatrical performances of Spain, as well as ones related to the Spanish language, while helping teach the distinct differences 

-Help spread love and laughter with stand-up comedy, physical comedy, sketch comedy, comedic acting 

-We believe in the human being’s ultimate potential, beyond nationality, perceived race, culture

-Createa safe environment for Gitanos and non-Gitanos from around the world 

-Promote the importance of legacy while embracing positive changes in our world

**VIDEOS**
**A lot more videos on YouTube of CarOlé in various genres @caroleflamenco, the company@carolinalugo1480 and many videos are not posted online – special videos available upon request Click here for a video of the company with the symphony)**

Quick Video of the Director/Principal Artist Dancing Flamenco & Spanish Dance

Quick Multifaceted Reel of Director, Ms. CarOlé Flamenco: Acting/Dancing/Comedy/Singing

Mother Daughter Duo: Carolina & CarOlé

Video Compilation: Acting + Flamenco/Contemporary/Spanish Dance + Stand-Up Comedy + Singing

CarOlé Flamenco is an Isadora Duncan Award Elite Nominee in Individual Performance

Company Dancing Spanish Regional Dance

Modern & Ballet Dance

Video Dancing in Various Locations

Stand-Up Comedy

See More of CarOlé Flamenco in Various Genres YouTube: @mxflamenco

See More Company YouTube: @carolinalugo1480

CLICK HERE TO GO TO MS. FLAMENCO’S IMDB: https://www.imdb.me/caroleflamenco

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