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The stunningly iconic choreographer Tachíria Flamenco (formerly Carolé Acuña) now goes by her Yaqui name. She has been named the “Top flamenco dancer in America” by the So You Think You Can Dance judges, 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, a Sanford Meisner Film Festival Best Actress nominee, named “One of the funniest stand-up comedians in the Bay Area” by the Contra Costa Times, she tours internationally throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, Canada and the Americas. Tachíria Flamenco was one of the first originally chosen artists by Jennifer Lopez to be in “¡Que Viva! The Chosen”. She is the artistic director of Tachíria Flamenco’s Dance Music Theatre.
Being the fifth generation flamenco & spanish dancer in a gitano family legacy, Ms. Flamenco grew up in a flamenco and spanish dance house hold. Her mother (Carolina Lugo) and grandmother (Dora) taught her dance while various international artists came to live and collaborate with shows. Starting her training in ballet at the age of three, Tachíria balanced ballet, spanish dance, flamenco and school before turning professional at fourThe stunningly iconic choreographer Tachíria Flamenco (formerly Carolé Acuña) now goes by her Yaqui name. She has been named the “Top flamenco dancer in America” by the So You Think You Can Dance judges, 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, a Sanford Meisner Film Festival Best Actress nominee, named “One of the funniest stand-up comedians in the Bay Area” by the Contra Costa Times, she tours internationally throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, Canada and the Americas. Tachíria Flamenco was one of the first originally chosen artists by Jennifer Lopez to be in “¡Que Viva! The Chosen”. She is the artistic director of Tachíria Flamenco’s Dance Music Theatre.
Being the fifth generation flamenco & spanish dancer in a gitano family legacy, Ms. Flamenco grew up in a flamenco and spanish dance house hold. Her mother (Carolina Lugo) and grandmother (Dora) taught her dance while various international artists came to live and collaborate with shows. Starting her training in ballet at the age of three, Tachíria balanced ballet, spanish dance, flamenco and school before turning professional at fourteen years of age.
Ms. Flamenco is a BIPOC, mixed race, Yaqui, two spirit, feminist, survivor now thriver, here to help people through her works which relate to the profoundly diverse and complex way of life, artform, culture that is Flamenco. She is also a Spanish dancer, actor, comedian, singer, artistic director, choreographer, writer.
Tachíria has had the honor of being the flamenco protégé of Pepa Montes in Sevilla, Spain, where she has been living and intensively training every two years since she was invited during a dance tour when she was eighteen.
With a love for acting, creating plays and constantly being nominated the class clown throughout school, becoming an actor and comedian seemed like a good fit as well so Ms. Flamenco also became a professional actor and comedian at the age of twenty two, after she went through intensive training in both.
While being multifaceted, Ms. Flamenco respects the intracasies of each discipline, as she has studied each one vigorously, has over twenty years of professional experience, is growth oriented, continuously evolving. Her chosen genres are specific to her unique artistic vision and it shows in all of her work; flamenco is at the core of all of it. She is currently continuing her studies in grad school, while she continues to flourish in her professional performance career and gives back to the community.
teen years of age.
Ms. Flamenco is a BIPOC, mixed race, Yaqui, two spirit, feminist, survivor now thriver, here to help people through her works which relate to the profoundly diverse and complex way of life, artform, culture that is Flamenco. She is also a Spanish dancer, actor, comedian, singer, artistic director, choreographer, writer.
Tachíria has had the honor of being the flamenco protégé of Pepa Montes in Sevilla, Spain, where she has been living and intensively training every two years since she was invited during a dance tour when she was eighteen.
With a love for acting, creating plays and constantly being nominated the class clown throughout school, becoming an actor and comedian seemed like a good fit as well so Ms. Flamenco also became a professional actor and comedian at the age of twenty two, after she went through intensive training in both.
While being multifaceted, Ms. Flamenco respects the intracasies of each discipline, as she has studied each one vigorously, has over twenty years of professional experience, is growth oriented, continuously evolving. Her chosen genres are specific to her unique artistic vision and it shows in all of her work; flamenco is at the core of all of it. She is currently continuing her studies in grad school, while she continues to flourish in her professional performance career and gives back to the community.
“Flamenco star Tachiria brings the soul
of Spain to San Francisco”
– Sunset Magazine
Top Flamenco Dancer in America” -So You Think You Can Dance
Best Individual Performance nominee for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award
Tachíria Flamenco is a star in her own right” -Oakland Tribune