Damaris Ferrer
As founder and artistic director of Bailes Ferrer, Ms. Ferrer has dedicated her career to promoting and teaching the art of Flamenco music and dance. She trained in New York as a junior company member of Ballet Hispanico of New York, Performing Arts High School and the State University of New York as a dance major. Ms. Ferrer has toured nationally and internationally with Ballet Hispanico, Jose Molina Bailes Españoles, All Nations Dance Company, Ballet Argentino Raices, and Mary Street Dance Theater. Her efforts and talents as an artist and her contributions to the arts have been constantly recognized through such awards as the Tito Puente Scholarship Fund (a three-time recipient) and from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts in 1987 and is the 2003 recipient of the Florida State Individual Artist Fellowship. Bailes Ferrer emerged in 1995, with generous support from the Broward Cultural Affairs Council and the State of Florida, in addition to the University Center for the Performing Arts where she currently teaches Flamenco for both children and adults.