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Alfonso Cid, flamenco singer and flute player, was born in Sevilla, Spain. His mother, an amateur singer, and his grandfather were his earliest influences. He also attended the activities of the Peña Flamenca Torres-Macarena. He attended classes at the Cristina Heeren Foundation for Flamenco in July 2007 and 2008. Alfonso recorded the hit song “Mi Santa” by Romeo Santos and the great guitarist Tomatito. Alfonso has toured the USA, Latin-America, Israel and Europe. He just toured Spain, France and Italy with the jazz/flamenco band New Bojaira, which has just released an album titled “Zorongo Blu”. He released “Flamenco de vuelta e ida” with the band “Gazpacho Andalú” and an album and three singles with his rock band “Dientes de Caramelo.
Seeking dance deeply rooted in music and expression, Amanda Dlouhy has been studying flamenco with Susana di Palma since 2013. Over the past decade, she has worked with numerous world-class artists visiting this dynamic Twin Cities flamenco community and has traveled to Spain three times to attend workshops. Amanda currently dances with Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre and with Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum. She previously danced with Ragamala Dance and received a McKnight Fellowship for Dancers in 2011.
A native of Osaka, Japan, Sachiko “La Chayí” Nishiuchi is a Twin Cities-based Flamenco dancer, teacher, choreographer and organizer. She has received recognition and grants from Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota SAGE Awards for Dance, and New York State Flamenco Certamen. She has presented her original dance works at the Walker Art Center, the Southern Theater, and the Intermedia Arts. Sachiko is the recipient of a 2017 McKnight Dancer Fellowship, administered by the Cowles Center and funded by the McKnight Foundation. She was a resident artist of Zorongo Flamenco under the guidance of director Susana Di Palma from 2003 to 2009. She lived and studied the art of Flamenco in Seville, Spain from 2010 to 2015 which became the foundation of her current dance and work. Sachiko is a certified STOTT PILATES® instructor.
Ross "El Vecino" is a lifelong musician with a passion and curiosity for music that has taken him around the country and the world. He plays for dancer Sachiko “La Chayí” and Zorongo Flamenco Dance School. He has studied Flamenco in Madrid, Spain with El Entri, Jesus de Rosario and Killino Jimenez. In Sevilla, he has studied with Juan del Gasor, “El Perla,” Javier Heredia, and Luis Peña. He obtained his artistic name “El Vecino” from his maestro Juan del Gastor.
Debra Siegel, "La Gaviota" began her studies with Susana di Palma immediately in 1981. Growing up
in an acting, singing, dancing family, dance always came naturally and Flamenco was firmly planted in her heart and soul from the beginning. In 1987, Debra and her husband moved to Madrid where she studied at Amor de Dios, with La Tati, Ciro, and Maria Magdalena. Upon returning, she resumed studying under Kristina de Sacramento and in 2009 and became a performing member of Anda Flamenco Company.
Michael Ziegahn, “Rafael de Tresa,” has been playing guitar since graduating from Saint Paul's Highland Park Sr. High School. He has studied locally and in Spain. He is class guitarist for Anda Flamenco dance school and has appeared in several productions with them including “Doña Quixote” and “Señora Butterfly” at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. He has also worked with local Flamenco groups Rincón Flamenco, Zorongo Flamenco, Fuego Flamenco and Sendero Flamenco. In 2007 he was the guitarist in the dance theater work “Hiroshima—A Night Dreamt and a Day Flashed to Burn” with choreographer and dancer Sachiko. He has been featured in the Minnesota Guitar Society's Flamenco Guitarathons and “A Tribute to Paco de Lucia” at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis. Some of his original compositions are featured on the CD entitled “Cazalla”. He has been an actor, dancer and singer in many different styles including recent forays into Flamenco singing.
Drawn to dance from an early age growing up in Tokyo, Japan, "Eva" Makiko Laabs began her flamenco study with Susana di Palma at Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre in 2008. As a company apprentice, she performed in numerous Zorongo productions between 2014 and 2020. Since the pandemic, she has immersed herself in the study of flamenco cante online with Javier Heredia and La Rhina in Seville, Spain. She enjoys sharing her love of the art form with fellow compañeros of the Twin Cities Flamenco Collective.
Wang Ping published 14 books of poetry, prose and translation. Her newest book, Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi, was published in 2018. She’s recipient of National Endorsement for the Arts, Bush Foundation, Lannan and McKnight Fellowships. She’s the founder and director of the Kinship of Rivers project. When she was a child in China, she found a card with a flamenco dancer in a burning pile of books. The gypsy spirit ignited the fire since then. After she moved to Minnesota, she started dancing with Zorongo Flamenco. She has been studying with Sachiko “La Chayí” since 2016.