Alice Blumenfeld

Title: Assistant Lecturer
Dept/Program: School of Dance, Theatre, and Arts Administration
Email: ablumenfeld@uakron.edu

Biography

Alice Blumenfeld is a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, a YoungArts Silver Award winner, a Fulbright recipient
in Dance, and an Individual Excellence Awardee in Choreography from the Ohio Arts Council (FY20). She fell in
love with flamenco at age 12, and since then it has been the driving force in her life, founding ABREPASO
Flamenco in 2016 and currently on dance faculty at Cuyahoga Community College and previously at Oberlin
College. She toured nationally with Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana for five seasons and performed as a soloist in
their New York-based company. Blumenfeld has performed internationally in Germany and Spain. Her visceral
choreography has been commissioned by the National YoungArts Foundation, The Kennedy Center for Performing
Arts, The National Hispanic Cultural Center, and universities. She has performed as a guest artist with many of the
preeminent flamenco companies in the U.S., including Grammy Award winner Hernán Romero, Nélida Tirado,
Forever Flamenco, EntreFlamenco, Jácome Flamenco, the American Bolero Dance Co., among others. Blumenfeld
holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University and a BA in comparative literature from New York University,
where she graduated summa cum laude. She also holds a teaching certification in Simonson Method of
jazz/contemporary.