THE DANCE CLASSES offered are the following:

The Pena's long term goal is to offer ongoing flamenco dance courses throughout the year.

Unfortunately, this is not currently possible as esteemed flamenco dance instructors are living abroad to perfect their skill and live their art and passion in their everyday life. Given the current situation, who could blame them?

 

Currently we will be inviting Yalda Younes who lives and works in Paris to instruct classes. She has dedicated herself to flamenco dance for more than twelve years, has studied flamenco in Lebanon with Maria Jesus de Melero as well as in Spain with the masters, including Israel Galvan who remains her favorite. Yalda travels to Lebanon every two months on average, and each time she offers a workshop on a delimited 'palc'. With time, she has formed an important number of dancers and continues with the same tenacity and courage to teach beginners as well.

 
    

We have also welcomed Tony Bejjani, a very promising young dancer who previously belonged to the Caracalla dance company, and has also fallen in love with Flamenco. For the past 6 years, he lived, studied and danced in Seville, Spain.

 
Another one of our flamenco teachers and dancers is Vathec Salmane.I met Vathec in September 2007, in Damascus, during the flamenco workshop given by Virginia Pozo, the famous Spanish dancer. I have been really impressed by his talent, his energy, and his strong will to cooperate with us in the flamenco field. He suggested that we organize flamenco workshops and I said yes immediatly, and i must say it was awsome!
Vathec is the leader of "Grupo Compas", a flamenco dance company that features him and his 2 young sisters Salma and Nour.

 
 
Sevillanas classes are tought by Martine Mansour, student of Maria Jesus de Melero as well as of Yalda Younes. Martine has been practicing flamenco for several years and has been part of workshops in Spain including Belen Maya's, in Seville.

To meet the growing demand, we have recently started offering Salsa, ballroom dancing, Chachacha and Tango from Argentina. Our professors, Stephan Roukos, is an excellent dancer who is introducing us to the art of Latino dances.