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Laura Sánchez is an award-winning flamenco artist, creator, choreographer and educator originally from Cádiz, Spain. Laura combines flamenco with film, poetry, spoken word, humor and instalation, to uplift the minority groups she identifies with including Hispanic, Immigrant Woman, Mothers, Caregivers of children with disabilities and trauma survivors.
She began her flamenco education as a child and received professional training from the Dance Conservatory of Madrid. Laura holds a Professional Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapies from Lesley University where she developed an emerging therapeutic dance practice, Expressive Flamenco©. She facilitates workshops, presents this work internationally and continues to serve annually as Guest Professor for the Lesley University Expressive Therapies Master’s Program. Her most recent research work was published at the Journal of the American Dance Therapy Association in 2021. Laura actively performs as soloist in flamenco venues in the Eastern U.S., and placed 3rd at the 2016 Flamenco Certamen USA, an international competition that takes place in NYC annually.
She works as independent choreographer for organizations including Boston College of Fine Arts, Massachusetts Government, Bridgewater University, and Kingston Theater. Laura works as independent producer and has presented several flamenco shows over the past few years in Massachusetts. In her last production Flamenco at Starlight she brought the flamenco community back together to perform for the first time in Cambridge since Covid-19. During the pandemic she created an award-winning short film called AFTER DARK to tell the resilience stories of a community affected by the Covid-19 global pandemic. She has been granted with the prestigious Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation in 2021 and was honored to be a member of Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Professional Consorcio Flamenco, a group dedicated to growing flamenco on the national stage in 2020.
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My personal experience as the mother of a child with multiple disabilities who relies upon access support services to care for my family and to support my creative practice, I aim to make my work accessible to individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities.
The network of professionals who work with my daughter including PT, visual impairment teachers, expressive artists and experts in making communities more accessible, are the collaborators who help me ensure my work is accessible.Professional Associations:
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Teaching fees can vary depending on location, amount of people involved and number of hours. My rates can go from $150-$350/HourTeaching Settings:
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Teaching fees can vary depending on location, amount of people involved and number of hours. My rates can go from $150-$350/HourNEST Eligible Artist
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Touring fees can go from $2,000 for a residency to develop new work and do community work to build audiences to up to $15,000 for a two nights full evening production with three artists involved and tech team. This work has flexible iterations to best meet the needs of the venue.State of Residence:
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