Anna de la Paz is a Spanish dance artist specializing in classical and folkloric Spanish dances.  After living in Spain and studying with such great master teachers as Mariemma and Pedro Azorín, she moved to New York City in 1999 and began working with Gabriela Granados and American Bolero Dance Company.

As a freelance artist, she has performed throughout the New York area at various venues including Carnegie Hall. Anna de la Paz works in collaboration with mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna on many productions including, “Music and Dance in the times of the Duchess of Alba (1762-1802)”, created for the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York City. She is the creator and producer of her own shows, which include Alegría Española, Migración, Memorias, and España in New York, and was on the creative team for Making Music Dance, a cross-fusion of flamenco, tap and world music. 

Anna was co-director of Walk to the Beat, an annual improvisational music and dance festival in Nyack, NY.  In 2017, Ms. de la Paz was invited to perform in the Canary Islands, Spain at the Festival Atlántico in Gran Canaria, and again in 2019 as part of an homage to pianist, Alicia de Larrocha.

Anna has been invited as a lecturer on Spanish dance at area colleges, universities and symposia, including the Foundation for Iberian Music’s international conferences on Enrique Granados in New York City and the “Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music Song and Dance” at University of California, Riverside.  In 2022, her article, “Reading the Jácara: Seventeenth-century steps and their Influence in Contemporary Spanish Dance,” was published in the book, Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots, edited by Antoni Pizà and K. Meira Goldberg. 

Anna de la Paz has dedicated much of her professional career to dance education.  She has taught master classes at Ballet Hispánico and has been on the faculty for the summer intensive programs at Ballet Hispánico and Ballet Rockland. She is currently teaching flamenco dance, classical Spanish dance and castanet technique at the Helen Hayes Studios in Nyack, NY.  

In 2002, Anna de la Paz participated in a training program at City Center to become a teaching artist in New York City Public Schools.  Since then, Ms. de la Paz has led many workshops and lecture/ demonstrations and residencies in the schools throughout the New York City metropolitan area.

In 2018, Anna de la Paz co-founded with Anna Tonna, Hispanic Culture Arts, an arts education organization that brings the classical Spanish arts to the New York City schools.  HCA is currently serving schools in the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, the New York School for the Deaf in White Plains, NY and has partnered with the education department at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library.

Ms. de la Paz currently lives in Nyack, NY with her husband and three children, where she continues to teach, produce and perform.