Daniel Paredez

Teaches at Joy of Motion Dance Center

Daniel Paredez began dancing flamenco in January 2006, training intensively with local flamenco artist Estela Velez and renowned Flamenco masters Alejandro Granados, La Farruca, Carmela Greco, Antonio Santaella, Miguel Vargas, David Coria, Antonio Vargas, and many others. He joined Furia Flamenca, a DC Metro-area flamenco company in 2006, and shortly thereafter became the company's lead male dancer and a soloist for the company. Performances include the Washington National Opera’s production of Don Giovanni at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2007), as a soloist in Furia Flamenca's Lorca: Flamenco Poetry (Alden Theater, 2009); the Kennedy Center's Millennium State (2010); Atlas Performing Arts Center (2011, 2015) where he was an Emerging Performer finalist at the Metro-DC Dance Awards in 2011; Ida y Vuelta: De Donde Vienes Mestizo in Managua, Nicaragua (2011); and a featured dancer in Teatro Lyrico DC's La Verbena de la Paloma at the Gala Hispanic Theater (2014). Other performance venues include the Lincoln Theater, honoring Judith Jameson and Rita Moreno; the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater; National Theater; Baltimore's Lyric Opera House; Harmon Hall; Publick Playhouse; Dance Place; and the Jack Guidone Theater. Paredez has also performed in tablaos locally and abroad in Puerto Rico and Nicaragua. In 2009, he taught flamenco at the Kirov Academy of Ballet's summer intensive in DC. He has supplemented his Flamenco with training in ballet, modern, and aerial dance.