Laura Sánchez

Embodiment Practices: Healing through Expressive Movement
close-up of Laura Sanchez, a light skinned woman smiling into the camera. She has wavy brown hair neck-length, and red lipstick. Wearing a mauve dress.
LS Flamenco

Laura Sánchez is an award-winning flamenco artist, creator, choreographer and educator originally from Cádiz, Spain. She began her flamenco education as a child and received professional training from the Dance Conservatory of Madrid. She holds a Professional Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapies from Lesley University where she developed an emerging therapeutic dance practice, Expressive Flamenco©. She facilitates workshops and presents this work internationally. Her arts-based research work was published at the Journal of the American Dance Therapy Association in 2021. 

Sánchez actively performs as soloist in flamenco venues in the Eastern U.S., and placed 3rdat the 2016 Flamenco Certamen USA, an international competition that takes place in NYC annually. She works as an independent choreographer for organizations including The Boston Center for the Arts, Boston College of Fine Arts, Bridgewater University, and Kingston Theater among several others. Sánchez works as an independent producer and has presented several flamenco shows over the past few years in Massachusetts. Sánchez is currently working on an autobiographical project entitled "Welcome to Holland!?," inspired by her experience as a Hispanic immigrant mother of two children, one with multiple disabilities, to question the role of the Mother in contemporary society. It is an Expressive Flamenco© multidisciplinary performance that uplifts the role of the caregiver and deconstruct ableism in society. It was presented at The Dance Complex in Cambridge, in March 2024 with support from the Boston Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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