Artistic Director - Flamenco Master

Siudy Garrido

SIUDY GARRIDO, award-winning Choreographer and lifelong, trained Dancer, is one of today’s most impressive talents in the Flamenco dance scene. She has been hailed by both fans and the media worldwide. Ms. Garrido has been celebrated and praised as: “mesmerizing,” “first-class,” “perfection,” and “a queen”. She is recognized as a trailblazing Artist, blending traditional and contemporary techniques into a brand of Flamenco that’s entirely her own.

She is the Artistic Director of the Siudy Garrido Flamenco Company, and leading the charge in the creation of seasonal programming for the community.

Ms. Garrido began performing on stage at the tender age of 5, in her native country of Venezuela. Her formal dance education started in her own mother’s academy, a celebrated school of Flamenco dance and choreography. Following in her mother’s footsteps and answering her ancestral calling, Ms. Garrido has dedicated her life to honoring the art of Flamenco. Thusly, exploring new concepts of dance, to include classical, contemporary, and jazz, serve as pathways to expand on time-honored Flamenco origins.

At just 9 years old, Ms. Garrido shared the stage with world famous Dancer Joaquín Cortés in the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, Venezuela. Ms. Garrido later moved to Spain and studied specialized dance techniques with instructors such as Ciro Diezhandino Nieto, Eduardo Serrano “El Güito”, María Magdalena, Kassandra “La China”, and Milagros Menjíbar. Ms. Garrido has also performed as a principal Dancer in acclaimed dance companies, such as Antonio Canales’ Ballet Flamenco, Adrián Galia’s Flamenco Company, and Domingo Ortega’s Flamenco Ortega.

Inspired by these experiences, Ms. Garrido established Siudy Garrido Flamenco Company in 2000. She’s choreographed and performed her own, original works, including: Caminos flamencos (2000-2003), debuting in Epcot Center, Orlando FL; Body and Soul (2003-2005); Bailaora (2005-2007), which received Venezuela’s Municipal Award of Dance’s Honorable Mention; Siudy: Entre mundos (2008 –2015) an Off-Broadway production and Drama Desk Outstanding Choreography Nominee in 2011; Amor Brujo, and Flamenco íntimo (2016- 2019). Ms. Garrido continues to master Flamenco as part of her continuing mission of bringing this dazzling dance form to a broader Audience.

In July 2019, Ms. Garrido re-staged Amor brujo at the Hollywood Bowl in LA, CA, by invitation from the LA Philharmonic. (This production had been commissioned to Ms. Garrido and previously debuted in 2015, when it was conducted by the Music Director of the LA Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel.) This re-staged production mesmerized Audiences during 4 Sold-Out performances. It later toured nationally, first at the Aspen Music Festival, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru, then in Des Moines, IA, with Maestro Joseph Junta. In 2018 and 2019, it once again sold out many performances, this time while touring with the South Florida Symphony, led by Maestra Sebrina María Alfonso.

In November 2019, Ms. Garrido debuted Bailaora: an original Flamenco theater production, in association with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, FL.

In the summer of 2020, the Siudy Garrido Flamenco Company was featured in PBS, performing El amor brujo at Falla and Flamenco with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.

Other notable works include choreography and performances of the opera Carmen with the Pittsburgh Opera, and La verbena de la paloma and The Three-Cornered Hat with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. 

During Ms. Garrido’s extensive career, she has gained the respect of Flamenco Artists who’ve joined her in different original productions. These include: maestro Antonio Canales with Siudy: Entre Mundos (2014-2015), and Juan Manuel Montoya “Farruquito” with Flamenco íntimo and Amor brujo (2015-2016).

Moreover, in 2010, Ms. Garrido was an Artist in Residence for world-renowned entertainment company Cirque du Soleil, providing its Las Vegas’ cast with an intensive Flamenco workshop. In 2017, Ms. Garrido was a Featured Performer at the Latin Grammy’s Person of The Year Gala, to celebrate acclaimed singer/songwriter Alejandro Sanz. In 2019, the Siudy Garrido Flamenco Company was featured on Season 3 of NBC’s World of Dance, a primetime show executive-produced by Jennifer Lopez. Ms. Garrido has also collaborated with a wide range of Artists in the music industry, to include: Bebo y Cigala, Niña Pastori, Alejandro Sanz, and Romeo Santos. From touring independently to collaborative endeavors, Ms. Garrido’s mission has remained the same: presenting her vision of Flamenco to every possible Audiences, all while expanding the possibilities of Flamenco’s repertoire. Her deep love and unwavering commitment to her art and her work have enabled her to maintain a high level of performance and artistic recognition.

General Manager

Deborah Cubides

Deborah Cubides was born in Newark, NJ to Cuban immigrants and moved to Miami, FL in 1976. Her love of the arts and dance in particular began as a child. Never having had the opportunity to study the art form herself, she encouraged her children to dance. After years of volunteering for various dance events and recitals, and with her background in sales and business management, she became the studio manager at the studio where her children studied in 2011, which further cultivated her passion for dance. Debbie joined Siudy Flamenco in January 2018 and is proud to be a part of this talented and passionate Flamenco community.

Flamenco Teacher

Monika Lange

Monika began her dance studies at the age of 3, in the disciplines of ballet, tap and jazz at Academia Siudy in Carcas, Venezuela. At the age of 9 she began to study Flamenco, under the guidance of instructor Olga Marcioni “La China” at the same school, a discipline she continued, under the instruction of Azilde Henriquez and Siudy Quintero for more than 12 years. She was an instructor at Academia Siudy for more than 5 years and was also a part of Siudy Quintero’s Professional Company until in 1995 when she moved to settle on the Island of Margarita where she continued to work as an instructor, dancer and choreographer for more than 5 years at the Fiesta Brava school founded by her mother and sister. In 2000, she moved to the United States, where she founded her own school in 2003, and where she currently works as Artistic Director, instructor and choreographer.

During her more than 25 years as a Flamenco dancer, she has received classes and workshops with renowned dancers such as: Siudy Garrido, María Españadero, Julia Merino, Carmela Greco, Israel Galván, Daniela Tugues, Manolete, Maria Juncal, Adrian Galia, Domingo Ortega, among others.

For more than 10 years, she has organized workshops and courses at her school with Siudy Garrido, where she has been able to adopt and perfect her technique. Since 2016 Monika has also been an instructor at Siudy Flamenco School.

Flamenco Teacher

Andrea González Parra

“The secret of excellence is in the hours of study. Being part of the Siudy Garrido Flamenco Company, has created in me a before and after as a bailaora”.

Barquisimeto, Lara State, Venezuela – 1993

Andrea debuted as a cast of Siudy Garrido Flamenco Company in the summer of 2019, debuting in the play Amor Brujo by Manuel de Falla at the Hollywood Bowl amphitheater in Los Angeles, California together with LA PHIL (Los Angeles Philharmonic), continuing in September of that same year on the tour within the United States of the show Flamenco Intimo and in November, the premiere of the company’s new show Bailaora.

Andrea’s first involvement with Siudy Flamenco was in 2016 where she began advanced level studies at Siudy Flamenco School in Mami, studying directly with Siudy Garrido.

In 2019, she became part of the staff of teachers at Siudy Flamenco School, teaching classes to adult initiation groups and young people at an intermediate/advanced level.

Andrea began her Flamenco dance studies at 3 years of age in her hometown at the Ballet Flamenco Mirabrás School, with teachers Maria Gracia Paris and Elisa Rodriguez. That same year, she began her musical career at the Jacinto Lara Conservatory, receiving classes in theory and music theory, percussion and singing, influenced by her parents Antonio Gonzalez (Percussionist) and Silvina Parra (Violinist), founders of the National System of Children’s Orchestras and Choirs from Venezuela.

In 2003 she moved to the City of Maracaibo, Zulia State, continuing her training at La Girondina Academy, with Marines Romero and Andreina Gutierrez and in 2015, she settled in Miami, Florida.

In her career as a bailaora, Andrea has enhanced her Flamenco dance studies under the tutelage of such renowned artists as Maria Juncal, Domingo Ortega, Jose Manuel El Oruco, Belen Maya, Olga Pericet, Jose Maya, Ivan Vargas, La Truco, Alfonso Losa and Jesus Carmona, among others.

Guitar Teacher

José Luis de la Paz

Huelva – Spain, 1967

José Luis de La Paz is an award-winning guitarist, recognized in the three disciplines of Flamenco art : composer, virtuoso, and performer, whose original compositions range from the most traditional to the most experimental forms of Flamenco music. His deep knowledge of tradition combined with his passion for research and his contemporary approach to Flamenco music makes José Luis one of the most powerful guitarists today.
From 2012 to the present, maestro Jose Luis de la Paz has collaborated with Siudy Garrido Flamenco Company as a composer and performer, creating original music for the shows Entre Mundos, Flamenco Intimo, Bailaora, and Amor Brujo, highlighting the latter with presentations with LA PHIL and instructorGustavo Dudamenl in 2015 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and in the summer of 2019 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California.

From a young age Jose Luis became the protegée of the legendary Mario Escudero. Jose Luis was musical director and composer of the Cristina Hoyos Ballet for ten years
and has accompanied renowned Flamenco singers and dancers such as: Carmen Linares, Jose Mercé, Arcángel, Argentina Lopez, Manolo Marin, Antonio Canales, Farruquito, Concha Buika, Belen Maya, and Siudy Garrido, among others.In 2019 he created the score for the film Finding Compass by Kathy Douglas.

In 2015 he debuted his symphonic work Avalon: Flamenco Suite for Guitar and Orchestra , in collaboration with Alex Conde and Berto Boyd in Miami, Florida In 2019 he created the score for the film Finding Compass by Kathy Douglas. Over the course of his career, Jose Luis has has recorded 5 albums of his own authorship: Andalusí (1987), Copilation Select (2003), Memoria Andaluzi (2005), 10X1 (2011), Escenas de Yerma (2016), and Introspective (2020).

Flamenco Teacher

Isabella Calicchio Ortiz

“Siudy Flamenco represents the complicity of the same passion in the desire to share what we carry inside”

Barquisimeto, Lara Estate – Venezuela, 1999

In 2019 Isabella entered Siudy Flamenco School and moved to the City of Miami where she currently resides. In 2020 she became part of the Siudy Garrido Flamenco Company as a substitute dancer. Isabella’s first approach to the arts was at 5 years of age with gymnastics, classical ballet, and what would become her great passion, Flamenco. Her main teachers have been Solangel Anguiano, Keyla Pineda and Lohennys Rivero in her hometown at the Escuela Superior de Arte Flamencos y Danzas Granada.

Her first steps as a professional dancer were in the Torbellino award as a junior group in 2015 with the company of Lohennys Rivero and sharing the stage with maestro Antonio Canales and Monica Fernandez that same year, produced by Danzas Granada. At 16 years of age, she moved to Orlando Florida where she worked as a Flamenco dance teacher from 2017 to 2018.

Isabella complements her training by studying cajon percussion, American tap, and Venezuelan Folklore.

She has carried out more than 25 Flamenco workshops with important figures such as: Antonio Canales, La Truco, Siudy Garrido, Siudy Quintero, Mónica Fernández, Alfonso Losa, Fran Vilchez, Carmen Garza, Ángel Rojas, José Cortez (dance and percussion), Daniela Tugues , Ivan Vallejo, Antonio Vallejo, Carmen Villena, and Francisco Vallejo (percussion), among others.