Complete Profile

She was born in Barranquilla, Colombia where she grew up and went to get a University Degree in Social Communications – Journalism at Universidad Autonoma del Caribe, in Barranquilla, Colombia. She also have Certificates in several areas of Contemporary Dance, obtained in B/quilla and Bogota, Colombia as well as in Cuba where she studied for a period of her life. This training added to her initial participation since early age in the folkloric dances from the yearly Barranquilla’s Carnaval.
In the year 1995, while living in Bogota, Colombia, She founded "Ombligo’e Kazabe Contemporary Dance Co." She also worked as an Art teacher for government agencies in educational projects, for University and College level courses and for private dance academies.
For the last three years She has been teaching Dance and Music and Movement at the Performing Arts Conservatory of New York, PACONY, formerly known as Unison, located in Queens. She have also taught the same area at the Cathedral Greek School in Manhattan and the Renaissance Charter School in Jackson Heights, Queens. As part of the work with Ombligo'e Kazabe She has been teaching Spanish as well at St. Therese of Liseiux in Brooklyn and Our Lady of the Angelus School in Queens, where she is teaching at this time. She is pursuing a Teacher Certificate in the Dalcroze Methodology at the Robert Abramson Dalcroze Institute at The Julliard School in NYC and She is also developing a "Spanish Through the Arts" program, using Colombian folklore and cultural references. Additionally she is taking music classes in the Music program at Pacony in Queens. She have also engaged in research for contemporary dance inspired on the movements of the Colombian Caribbean folklore.
She has written five small-format children’s books that combine the different areas that she work with such as dance, music, and hands and crafts, focused in teaching Spanish through the Arts. The five titles are: El gusano verde, Las manitos, La eñe que sueña, La noche y el sueño, El color del monocuco, La rama del tamarindo.
She has performed and gave workshops in: Athens-Greece, Colombia, La Habana and Romerias de Holguin in Cuba, Movement Research, PS. 122, Carnegie Hall, Our Lady of the Angelus School, in N.Y. and recently at the University of Evansville in Indiana, Queens Public Library, Evansville Public Library, as well as in the afther school programs in differents publics and Catholics schools in Indiana, Recently at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia.