#28-Freedom from Stress with Flamenco - Lisa Botalico, Performing Artist, Dancer, Choreographer, Artistic Director, etc

Lisa Botalico is currently Assistant Director/Principal Dancer/Choreographer of Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre; toured the USA as Artistic Director/Principal Dancer of La Compañía Folklorica Latina for the National Theatre of the Performing Arts and shared the stage with flamenco greats including Jose Molina, Maria Alba, Manolo Rivera and Carmen Salao. She is the featured dancer on NJN’s Emmy Award winning program, The Spanish Guitar and her photo appeared in the exhibit 100 Years of Flamenco in NYC at the Library for the Performing Arts Lincoln Center. NJ performances with Alborada include: NJPAC, New Brunswick PAC, Morristown Community Theatre, Crossroads Theatre and George Street Playhouse. Choreography collaborations include: Roxey Ballet’s Carmen, Nrithyanjali Institute of Dance’s Journey through Genre; Outlet Dance Project at Grounds for Sculpture and Europium Dance Theater. In 1999 she founded the Arts Council of Princeton’s Adult and Children’s Flamenco Dance Programs and was their 2014 Artist in Residence and was also Artist in Residence at Princeton Day School and The Lawrenceville School. She teaches for Princeton Dance and Theater Studio’s conservatory dance program, Union County College Continuing Education Program and formerly Princeton and Rutgers Universities’ recreation programs and has presented flamenco dance labs at Rider University. In 2019 Lisa was nominated for a Best Choreographer Perry Award by the New Jersey Association of Community Theaters for Zorro, the Musical with PinnWorth Productions at the Kelsey Theater.

In this conversation, Lisa shares her narratives on how flamenco dance can empower, inspire and heal. She tells stories on her personal experience caring for a dementia family member. She speaks on the importance of eating a good diet, importance of physical activity and Importance of nurturing others.

She had gained fame and success in the passionate and artistic world of flamenco of which she describes as flamenco finding her. Although, she had her own share of physical ailment in the beginning of her career in NY when she had to go through a lung surgery, as soon as her surgery was over, she continued to dance and worked her way to become a performing artist and choreographer. Her stories of the wide spectrum of age range of students from five years old to mid-eighties will give you inspiration to explore Flamenco.

For this episode's Quantum Affirmation, Grace reads OVERCOMING FEAR --I am not afraid. Whatever situation arises, I will get through it wiht my own inner strength. I am powerful. (Read this 3x in the morning, noon and evening or 3x morning and evening. Feel it.)

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