Danza Floricanto

Gema Sandoval, Artistic Director

Dance Resource Center of Los Angeles

Japan American Theatre

University of California, Irvine

Viji Prakash

Amrapali Ambegaokor

Amrapali Ambegaokor has studied with her Guru Smt. Anjani Ambegaokar for the past 25 years and is now the Associate Artistic Director and Choreographer of Anjani’s Kathak Dance of India Company. She has been the Principal Dancer and a soloist…

Anjani Ambegaokor

Anjani Ambegaokar came to the United States in 1967 from her native India and has since become the most well known dancer, choreographer, and educator of Kathak in the nation. Kathak, a popular but very complex form of North Indian…

Gema Sandoval

Gema Sandoval

Gema Sandoval, founder, artistic director and choreographer of Danza Floricanto/USA is devoted to illuminating her Mexican-American heritage through dance. Over the past fourteen years, Sandoval has staged theme works in addition to traditional regional dances of Mexico.  Among these are:;…

Linda Yudin

Linda Yudin, founding Artistic Director of Viver Brasil, earned her MA in Dance (Ethnology) from UCLA in 1988, has devoted more than two decades to researching, performing and teaching Afro-Brazilian dance, embodied in Viver Brasil’s innovative stage presentations. Yudin has…

Leona Wood