Dance Coaches - Isabel Baquero

Flamenco coach

Isabel Baquero originally trained in her native Barcelona in Flamenco, regional and classical Spanish dance, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, and Ballroom dancing. In 1990 she came to London on a scholarship and graduated with honours from the Dance Performers course at the London Studio Centre.

Isabel has worked as a dancer and assistant choreographer in several productions for the BBC, including Wives & Daughters, Madam Bovary and Daniel Deronda and has performed in various films, notably Shakespeare in Love, Onegin, I capture the Castle and most recently in Pride and Prejudice, in which she was also appointed assistant choreographer. She has worked extensively with the English National Opera, the Royal Opera in Covent Garden, and as Spanish dance coach /dancer/assistant choreographer in Sir Richard Eyre's production of La Traviata.

Isabel’s choreography credits in the UK include the flamenco group semi-final dance in Strictly Dance Fever 2005, Barber of Seville for Garsington Opera, and movement director of The House of Bernarda de Alba at the Theatre Clwyd in Wales.

She currently teaches flamenco dance & Sevillanas at the Bishopsgate Institute in the City of London, and holds dance teaching posts at Birkbeck College University of London and Lewisham College. Isabel has a B.A. (Hons.) in Dance Education from Middlesex University, and continues to develop her research on the impact and values of Spanish dance in the cultural education and performing arts in Britain. She is an associate of the Royal Academy of Dance, and an executive member of The Spanish Dance Society committee.