Biography
TRAINING
Born in Barcelona and trained in the performing arts from the age of four, she discovered Tap Dance at the age of ten and soon knew it would become the focus of her artistic career. Even so, she continued to broaden her training through other disciplines, including ballet, Spanish dance, theatre, modern jazz, music theory, percussion, and singing. She graduated from the Rosario Contreras Verdiales System of Spanish Dance Pedagogy and obtained qualifications at different levels from the Royal Academy of Dance in the United Kingdom and the Taller de Músics de Barcelona.
Her Tap Dance training began in Barcelona with artists including Anna Guix, Sharon Lavi, Laia Molins, and Basilio González, as well as with international artists invited to the city's Tap Dance events. She later continued her training in the United States and across Europe, taking part in various programs and projects with artists including Sam Weber, Lynn Schwab, Barbara Duffy, Brenda Bufalino, Sarah Reich, Andrew Nemr, Dormeshia, Sarah Petronio, and Michelle Dorrance, among others. In 2017, she was one of the scholarship recipients selected for the Tap Dance Program at the prestigious Jacob's Pillow School of Dance in the United States.
PERFORMING
She began her professional career in 2003, performing with Basilio González's dance company CLAK & ROLL and with the Big Band de Granollers, with whom she participated in the 38th Barcelona Jazz Festival. In 2004, she joined TAPEPLAS, now Sharon Lavi Company, performing in all five of the company's productions as both ensemble dancer and soloist. Her work with the company included performances at the Teatre Borràs and Teatre Guasch in Barcelona, international engagements in Italy, the United Kingdom, and France, and the premiere of EPIC at Mercat de les Flors de Barcelona in December 2009.
In 2010, she joined CAMUT BAND as the first female dancer in La Vida és Ritme, becoming a core member of the company and participating in its productions in national and international tours. Her work with the company has included performances in Georgia and Germany, as well as seasons at Barcelona's Teatre Goya and Sant Andreu Teatre (saT!). She was subsequently part of the production Africa-Camut-Barcelona (premiered in 2011), presented at L'Auditori de Barcelona, Teatre Grec, Festival Grec, Festes de la Mercè, and Festival Tres Culturas in Murcia, among others, and part of Sonoritats, which premiered in 2013 at Temporada Alta in Girona and was later presented at Teatre Victoria and Mercat de les Flors de Barcelona. She continues to be an active member of the company, with recent projects including the production Set de Ritme, which premiered at Golem'S in April 2024, the company's participation in the renowned Carnival of Tenerife in February 2025, and the ongoing national tour of La Vida és Ritme.
TEACHING
Since the beginning of her professional career, she has combined her work as a performer with regular teaching at dance schools including Esbart Dansaire del Poble Sec, Escola de Dansa Ramon Solé, and Escola Artis de Reus. In 2012, she joined the faculty of ESCOLA LUTHIER, one of Europe's leading centres for Tap Dance, where she continues to teach both at the school and within its nine-month Professional Tap Dance Training Program. Since 2015, she has developed an international career as a guest artist, teaching master-classes and workshops and participating in Tap Dance festivals and events in cities including Stockholm, Turin, Oslo, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Vancouver, Dallas, and Panama City.
PRODUCING
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she initiated two projects aimed at supporting and strengthening the Tap Dance community:
TAP TALKS LIVE (2020–21) was an online educational and conversational series co-presented with Iselin Jansen Ruiz (Oslo), exploring different aspects of Tap Dance and bringing together artists from across the international community. The project provided a space for connection and exchange during the pandemic and remains available as an online archive featuring conversations with internationally recognised artists including Sarah Petronio and Uwe Meusel.
That same year, she began coordinating and directing the REGULAR TAP DANCE PROGRAMMING at Golem'S in Barcelona, formerly Almeria Teatre. Running for five consecutive seasons until June 2025, the programming presented national and international productions, monthly Tap Jams, and other community events, with the aim of increasing the presence of Tap Dance in Barcelona, developing audiences, and creating a meeting point for artists and practitioners of the discipline. Although the project officially concluded in 2025, the space continues to host independent activities and community gatherings as a result of the work developed.
CHOREOGRAPHING
Her work in choreographic composition began in 2011 with Amélie, a short Tap Dance creation conceived as a choreographic poem for occasional performances, exploring a more intimate and sensitive approach to the composition of the form. In 2015, she founded her own choreographic project, UNUM Project, now La última vela, as a space for exploring contemporary Tap Dance beyond its traditional entertainment framework and in dialogue with original electronic music. The project premiered in Turin, Italy, in December 2016 with the 25-minute work -SIGHTS-.
In 2018, during a break from her own project, she worked as a Tap Dance choreographic assistant to Aixa Guerra for the musical La jaula de las locas (La Cage aux Folles), directed by Àngel Llàcer at Barcelona's Teatre Tívoli during the 2018/19 season. In 2020, she created her second work, Sumario de memorias y cicatrices, under the framework of La última vela, combining her approach to choreographic composition with dramaturgy and graphic design. In 2022, the piece was selected by the Redescena network for touring in Spain with the support of the national institution INAEM.
Since 2022, she has also been invited to create and compose short-format pieces for international Tap Dance events in countries including Brazil and Panama. These residency-based projects combine artistic creation with educational processes, giving participants the opportunity to develop, create, and present an original choreographic work.
In May 2024, following two years of research and development, she began the creation process for A·COS·O, the latest work by La última vela. The process began at tanzhaus NRW in Germany and continued through residencies at LAVA Valladolid and L'Estruch in Sabadell. The work combines Tap Dance, contemporary movement, and dramaturgy to explore psychological abuse and physical violence through a hybrid and contemporary artistic language.
Born in Barcelona and trained in the performing arts from the age of four, she discovered Tap Dance at the age of ten and soon knew it would become the focus of her artistic career. Even so, she continued to broaden her training through other disciplines, including ballet, Spanish dance, theatre, modern jazz, music theory, percussion, and singing. She graduated from the Rosario Contreras Verdiales System of Spanish Dance Pedagogy and obtained qualifications at different levels from the Royal Academy of Dance in the United Kingdom and the Taller de Músics de Barcelona.
Her Tap Dance training began in Barcelona with artists including Anna Guix, Sharon Lavi, Laia Molins, and Basilio González, as well as with international artists invited to the city's Tap Dance events. She later continued her training in the United States and across Europe, taking part in various programs and projects with artists including Sam Weber, Lynn Schwab, Barbara Duffy, Brenda Bufalino, Sarah Reich, Andrew Nemr, Dormeshia, Sarah Petronio, and Michelle Dorrance, among others. In 2017, she was one of the scholarship recipients selected for the Tap Dance Program at the prestigious Jacob's Pillow School of Dance in the United States.
PERFORMING
She began her professional career in 2003, performing with Basilio González's dance company CLAK & ROLL and with the Big Band de Granollers, with whom she participated in the 38th Barcelona Jazz Festival. In 2004, she joined TAPEPLAS, now Sharon Lavi Company, performing in all five of the company's productions as both ensemble dancer and soloist. Her work with the company included performances at the Teatre Borràs and Teatre Guasch in Barcelona, international engagements in Italy, the United Kingdom, and France, and the premiere of EPIC at Mercat de les Flors de Barcelona in December 2009.
In 2010, she joined CAMUT BAND as the first female dancer in La Vida és Ritme, becoming a core member of the company and participating in its productions in national and international tours. Her work with the company has included performances in Georgia and Germany, as well as seasons at Barcelona's Teatre Goya and Sant Andreu Teatre (saT!). She was subsequently part of the production Africa-Camut-Barcelona (premiered in 2011), presented at L'Auditori de Barcelona, Teatre Grec, Festival Grec, Festes de la Mercè, and Festival Tres Culturas in Murcia, among others, and part of Sonoritats, which premiered in 2013 at Temporada Alta in Girona and was later presented at Teatre Victoria and Mercat de les Flors de Barcelona. She continues to be an active member of the company, with recent projects including the production Set de Ritme, which premiered at Golem'S in April 2024, the company's participation in the renowned Carnival of Tenerife in February 2025, and the ongoing national tour of La Vida és Ritme.
TEACHING
Since the beginning of her professional career, she has combined her work as a performer with regular teaching at dance schools including Esbart Dansaire del Poble Sec, Escola de Dansa Ramon Solé, and Escola Artis de Reus. In 2012, she joined the faculty of ESCOLA LUTHIER, one of Europe's leading centres for Tap Dance, where she continues to teach both at the school and within its nine-month Professional Tap Dance Training Program. Since 2015, she has developed an international career as a guest artist, teaching master-classes and workshops and participating in Tap Dance festivals and events in cities including Stockholm, Turin, Oslo, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Vancouver, Dallas, and Panama City.
PRODUCING
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she initiated two projects aimed at supporting and strengthening the Tap Dance community:
TAP TALKS LIVE (2020–21) was an online educational and conversational series co-presented with Iselin Jansen Ruiz (Oslo), exploring different aspects of Tap Dance and bringing together artists from across the international community. The project provided a space for connection and exchange during the pandemic and remains available as an online archive featuring conversations with internationally recognised artists including Sarah Petronio and Uwe Meusel.
That same year, she began coordinating and directing the REGULAR TAP DANCE PROGRAMMING at Golem'S in Barcelona, formerly Almeria Teatre. Running for five consecutive seasons until June 2025, the programming presented national and international productions, monthly Tap Jams, and other community events, with the aim of increasing the presence of Tap Dance in Barcelona, developing audiences, and creating a meeting point for artists and practitioners of the discipline. Although the project officially concluded in 2025, the space continues to host independent activities and community gatherings as a result of the work developed.
CHOREOGRAPHING
Her work in choreographic composition began in 2011 with Amélie, a short Tap Dance creation conceived as a choreographic poem for occasional performances, exploring a more intimate and sensitive approach to the composition of the form. In 2015, she founded her own choreographic project, UNUM Project, now La última vela, as a space for exploring contemporary Tap Dance beyond its traditional entertainment framework and in dialogue with original electronic music. The project premiered in Turin, Italy, in December 2016 with the 25-minute work -SIGHTS-.
In 2018, during a break from her own project, she worked as a Tap Dance choreographic assistant to Aixa Guerra for the musical La jaula de las locas (La Cage aux Folles), directed by Àngel Llàcer at Barcelona's Teatre Tívoli during the 2018/19 season. In 2020, she created her second work, Sumario de memorias y cicatrices, under the framework of La última vela, combining her approach to choreographic composition with dramaturgy and graphic design. In 2022, the piece was selected by the Redescena network for touring in Spain with the support of the national institution INAEM.
Since 2022, she has also been invited to create and compose short-format pieces for international Tap Dance events in countries including Brazil and Panama. These residency-based projects combine artistic creation with educational processes, giving participants the opportunity to develop, create, and present an original choreographic work.
In May 2024, following two years of research and development, she began the creation process for A·COS·O, the latest work by La última vela. The process began at tanzhaus NRW in Germany and continued through residencies at LAVA Valladolid and L'Estruch in Sabadell. The work combines Tap Dance, contemporary movement, and dramaturgy to explore psychological abuse and physical violence through a hybrid and contemporary artistic language.
Today, she combines her work as an educator with the artistic direction and management of La última vela, while continuing to perform, choreograph, and teach as a guest artist at international Tap Dance festivals and events.