Born in Spain, Laura Sánchez is an independent flamenco dancer, educator and choreographer based in Cambridge, MA. She started her Flamenco and Spanish Dance training as a child in Cádiz, Spain and continued her training in Madrid at Lola San Juan Dance Center where she studied with Sara Martín, Christian Lozano and Isaac Tovar. She completed her professional dance studies joining the Dance Conservatory in 2008.

After moving to Boston in 2014, she continued her training with Nino and Issac de los Reyes and attended Flamenco Workshops with world-renowned artists Antonio Najarro, Aida Gómez, Gala Vivancos, Juanjo Linares, Mercedes Ruiz, Farruquito, Jesus Carmona, La Lupi, Manuel Linán, Belen Maya, Lucia Campillo, Patricia Guerrero, Emilio Ochando, Sonia Olla, Triana Maciel or Juaquin Grilo among others. Laura has performed at several venues in the US including the Bruno Walter Lincoln Center in NYC. For two years, she was a finalist at the NYC Flamenco Competition, placing third while competing in 2016.

Laura founded LS Flamenco in 2014 and since then she has brought flamenco dance to hundreds of people in Massachusetts and collaborated with several organizations in the Boston Area. Laura is teaching artist at Boston Ballet and also at Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana in NYC and has been offering regular flamenco classes for kids and adults at The Dance Complex since 2014. In 2019 she was invited as Guest Choreographer at the Bridge Water University to create a piece for the dance graduate program. In 2015, she was the dancer and Choreographer of Quixote in Kabul, a play directed by Boston College of Fine Arts.

Laura received her Advanced Professional Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapies from Lesley University in 2018 where she is developing her unique theory and approach of Expressive Flamenco © by conducting auto-ethnographic expressive arts-based research. She has been a guest lecturer, facilitating numerous Expressive Flamenco© workshops and has presented her research at several regional and national conferences. She has been invited at different national and international conferences in 2019 including the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA) Conference in Berkeley, CA, the New England American Dance Therapy Association Conference, the National Dance and International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association Conference in NYC, the European Expressive Arts Therapy Conference (ECARTE) in Madrid and the national American Dance Therapy Association Conference in Miami, among others.  Laura has been leading Expressive Flamenco© workshops in Massachusetts since 2017 inviting participants to explore new ways of connecting with their bodies, develop self-esteem and express their most authentic selves through flamenco dance.

Laura is also a business strategist with more than 10 years of experience working as marketing manager for different multinational companies including Santander Bank in Boston and The Walt Disney, L’Oréal or Vodafone in Spain. She has brought her extensive experience into the arts field offering business mentoring to different arts companies including Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and several independent artists.

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