Flamenco Dance Classes Near Me
Kids Ages 8-12
About Our Children's Flamenco Dance Classes
Continuous learning
Flamenco is authentic, traditional, fun, and invigorating.
Learn the beautiful art of Flamenco dance, music, and culture. Through this fun and exciting Spanish art form, students will learn discipline, coordination, problem solving, musicality, and team work as they explore simple and complex rhythms, footwork, techniques, and isolations. The basic patterns, posture, and compás (rhythm) are incorporated into choreography and class work.
Flamenco Attire
Girls: Wear leotard or shirt, full skirt and flamenco shoes;
Boys: Wear dance pants, shirt and flamenco shoes.
Attire is available at:
Centerstage Capezio 5261 University NE. (206-527-4697)
Class Schedules & Studio Locations
Fall Session
Session Dates: September 16, 2024 - February 9, 2025
Meet Your Teacher
Michaelene De La Serna
Flamenco Dance
Michaelene De La Serna studied flamenco dance intensively for many years with Flamenco Chicago Artistic Director Ms. Rosetta Magdalen. She has also studied with flamenco greats Carmela Greco and Marija Temo. In addition to teaching adults, Michaelene was the Director of the Flamenco Kids Program at Flamenco Chicago.
Michaelene De La Serna studied flamenco dance intensively for many years with Flamenco Chicago Artistic Director Ms. Rosetta Magdalen. She has also studied with flamenco greats Carmela Greco and Marija Temo. In addition to teaching adults, Michaelene was the Director of the Flamenco Kids Program at Flamenco Chicago and worked as an Artist-in Residence/Flamenco Teacher for Ensemble Español Center for Spanish Dance and Music’s “Bailamos” Arts Education Residency Programs.
Ms. De La Serna is also extensively trained in Ballet, graduating from Boitsov Classical Ballet School in Chicago as both a professional dancer and teacher of the Vaganova Ballet syllabus. She has danced solo roles in Le Spectre de La Rose, Fountain of Bakhchiserai, Les Sylphides, as well as many variations from Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Raymonda and Sleeping Beauty.
Michaelene served as Associate Artistic Director of Boitsov Classical Ballet School & Company in Chicago for three years before relocating to Seattle. She joined American Dance Institute’s staff in 2017.
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