Laura Santamaría

Flamenco Dancer
Address:

C/ Administrador Gutiérrez Anaya, 5 – Local 11

Young and brilliant flamenco dancer with great professional experience on stage.

Flamenco dancer with extensive training in Classical Ballet, Modern and Jazz, Dramatic Art and specialized in the Flamenco discipline.  Her learning began with Ángela Santamaría (her mother’s academy, of the Superior Conservatory of Dance of Murcia). She won a scholarship to study for a year at the Cristina Heeren Foundation and since then she has been taking courses with many artists including Manuela Ríos, Rosario Toledo, Adela Campallo, Carmen Ledesma, Milagros Mengíbar and Rafael Campallo, Andrés Peña, Alicia Márquez, Pilar Ortega, Juan Ogalla, Manuel Betanzos, Andrés Peña, Francis Nuñez (Ballet, Bowling, Stylized), Pastora Galván, Carmela Greco, La Tani, Mari Paz Lucena, Joaquin Grilo, Pepa Montes, Juana Amaya, Jairo Barrul, Mercedes Ruiz, Matilde Coral, Eva Yerbabuena, Rafaela Carrasco, , Israel Galván, Belén Maya, El Guito , Javier Latorre, and a masterclass of “Jota con Javier” (dancer of the BNE)

Regarding her professional experience, we will list some of her activities:

Solo performance in the Opera “The Short Life” in the Opera Theater in Nice (France).2003
Performance at the theater El Monte (Seville) with the company Carmen Ledesma.2006
Peña Torres Macarena (Seville) with the company Carmen Ledesma.2006
Introduction to Flamenco for children at the Isbilya School (Sevilla) .2006
Premiere of the show company “Laura Santamaria” at the Flamenco Festival of Nice, sharing the bill with Mercedes Ruiz. 2007
Tablao “El Patio Sevillano” (5 months- 2007/2008)
Performance with the Ballet of Francis Núñez (January 2012)

AWARDS
> 1st prize “Milagros Mengibar” of Flamenco dance of Calasparra 2008 (Murcia)
> 4th prize “la Calahorra” of Flamenco dance at the Flamenco club “Campo de la verdad” (Córdoba) 2009
> 3rd prize “La Perla de Cádiz” of “Baile Por Alegrías” (Cádiz) 2009

STAGES
– The Sevillano Courtyard, Cristina Hoyos Museum, Alvarez Quintero Auditorium, Los Gallos (Seville)
– The Cordobés (Barcelona)
– The Roosters

FLAMENCO GROUPS
> Francis Nuñez
> Andrés Peña and Pilar Ogalla
> Eva Yerbabuena
> Miguel López (cantaor)