Linda Gallegos
Linda is a flamenco dance soloist with years of experience and a passion for the art form that so depicts our Spanish heritage. She is a soloist, choreographer, and director of her own dance company, Gallegos Flamenco, which she founded in 2003. She received her training in traditional and contemporary flamenco and Spanish classical dance from noted flamenco artists of Spain such as Belen Lopez, Farruquito, La Moneta, and Mario Maya. She was awarded a scholarship to study flamenco from Maria Benitez of the famed Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco of Santa Fe, NM.
For many years, Linda has performed with other professional companies including being a soloist and a featured artist. She has performed in venues ranging from her annual theater productions under grants
from the City of El Paso Museum and Cultural Affairs Department as well as intimate settings in venues such as restaurants, city festival and civic events around the Southwest and Mexico.
Linda gives workshops and has also been teaching flamenco classes at her studio, Casa de Flamenco, since 2003. Linda’s dancing has also been captured on canvas by noted El Paso Artists Hal Marcus and Willibald de Cabrera.
Jessica Warner
Jessica is from El Paso, TX where she has been dancing and performing since the age of three. Flamenco, salsa, bachata, hip hop, ballet, jazz, lyrical, contemporary, folklorico, tap, and acrobatics are some areas of dance that she has studied extensively.
She has studied with dance professionals while living in NYC, when traveling to Spain, and from other parts of the globe. Some of her dance teachers throughout her continuous dance career include Belen Lopez (flamenco), Alfonso Losa (flamenco), Rocio Molina (flamenco), Israel Galvan (flamenco), Mario Maya (flamenco), Andree Harper (ballet), Ingeborg Heuser (ballet), Joel Dominguez (salsa), Christopher Rogicki (Rueda de Casino), Desiree Godsell (bachata), Brian “Bam” Martin (hip hop), Misha Gabriel (hip hop), Ian Eastwood (hip hop), Tricia Miranda (hip hop), Brian Friedman (jazz funk), New York City Rockettes (kick line, tap), and many more.
She is currently a soloist in Gallegos Flamenco, has attended the Texas Dance Educators’ Association (TDEA) Convention annually for over a decade, participates in the annual Flamenco Festival in Albuquerque, was a member of the UTEP Dance Team, a member of the salsa and bachata Yambere Dance Company, was a part of UTEP Ballet, and a member of Rosa Guerrero’s folklorico group. She has performed at the Albuquerque Latin Dance Festival, Chamizal, UTEP, and the Plaza Theater in productions such as The Nutcracker, La Traviata, and Easy Winners. She has also participated in multiple national dance competitions growing up.
Jessica is extremely versatile and knowledgeable in many areas of dance to include teaching, choreographing, performing, and still being a student herself. She has a love for continuing her dance education, attends dance festivals each year, and takes various dance classes/workshops of different styles throughout the year. She has a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in Educational Technology, is a certified teacher in Texas in Dance 8-12, English 8-12, ESOL, and is a certified Master Technology Teacher (MTT). She has taught in the public school system for 14 years and was the dance director and dance teacher at Chapin High School for over a decade, where she put on elaborate student dance performances annually and had her performing dance group participate in local dance competitions. She is thoroughly excited to share her passion and knowledge of dance and musicality with the El Paso community and beyond.