Rosamaria Delgadillo, owner and teacher

Rosa began her dancing career at the age of 16 in the art of ballet and jazz. She attended University of Texas at El Paso as a ballet major, and soon moved into the art of ballroom dancing after her brother introduced her to this wonderful new world. Rosa has over 20 years experience in teaching ballroom and Latin dancing. She has competed professionally and Pro-Am receiving many awards. She has also choreographed for several TV series.

Today, Rosa’s passion lies more with sharing her vision and commitment to ballroom with the community at large, although she still competes in the pro-am division with her students in ballroom dancing. Rosa continues to develop and enrich her ballroom dance knowledge through coaching with various U.S. and world-renowned professional dance champions and ballroom dance coaches.

Jose Luis Moncada

Joe Moncada, a native of El Paso TX, has been dancing since the age of 16. He started his career performing with the El Paso Association for the Performing Arts. He has danced and performed with the NM Ballet Company, Ballet Theatre of New Mexico, Modern Dance Moving Company, People in Santa Fe, Baila! Baila!, and Ballet Folklorico Rio Grande. Joe has competed in the professional American Rhythm division in Ballroom Dancing for 10 years, receiving awards including top teacher for numerous Pro-Am competitions with Fred Astaire Dance World. He now shares his time between teaching his students to reach a higher level of competitive ballroom dancing and exhibition dancing.

Joe and Jeremy are currently preparing for up and coming LGBT competitions (representing the State of NM). These are held throughout the U.S. and the world, including the Gay Games to be held in Cologne Germany (2010).

When not wearing his dance shoes, Joe is dedicated to the design and construction of his beautiful and very creative dance costumes. Joe uses his unique vision to design each costume to enhance and flatter each dancer’s specific body type and dance style. His wide ranging talent will fulfill your fantasy desires from tutus, to ballgowns. There is no challenge too complex or too small that Joe is not excited to take on!

Maryann Harvey

Maryann has performed internationally with such repertory companies as the San Francisco Jazz Dance Company and in musical revues with Greg Thompson and Merv Goldstein Productions. She has performed internationally with the San Francisco Jazz Dance Company and in musical revues. She has been under contract as a dancer with both Crystal and Carnival Cruise Lines and under scholarship with the Joffrey, Harkness, Pennsylvania and Lehigh Regional Ballet Companies. She has choreographed dance sequences for movies and for television series.

Maryann currently performs internationally. As of 2007, Maryann teamed up with professional partner, Rowdy Dufrene, to compete in the Classic Master's Division of the UCWDC. In their various competitions throughout the U.S. they continue to meet with much success, including placing 1st in all dances at the Southern Nationals in October and 4th place overall at the UCWDC World Championships at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN in January ‘08. She was recently invited to perform in Paris, France where she graced the floor with dance partner Rowdy and entertained the crowd with their usual bubbly, fun-filled and playful performance. Maryann has also competed in the Classic Masters division with two other professional partners garnering the 2004 UCWDC Classic Open Division I World Championship, with former partner Todd Fulkerson.

As a teaching professional Maryann continues to receive both international and national recognition throughout various UCWD Ccompetitions. For years, Maryann has consistently and successfully competed with her male students, She received international recognition as a teaching professional at the 2008 World Championships and she garnered the 4th place Best Male Student Pro-Am Instructor award. If you are looking for a very knowledgeable dance instructor in Country Western partnership dancing both competitive and social, look no longer you have truly met your teacher. Maryann graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in dance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Maryann began her teaching career at age 13, and now shares her energy and experience to enrich the Albuquerque dance community.

Ethan Gutierrez

After living a peaceful and serene life as a single celled thermophile on Venus, Ethan was sent to Earth where he began his career in kicking and screaming. Failing to meet market demands, he went to school where he worked far too hard and played far too little until he reached college where he discovered dance. Flourishing under a new paradigm of playfulness, his deep passion for Mathematics finally found its way from abstract thought into life application. Ethan has been teaching dance since receiving his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Dance from the University of New Mexico in 2000.

He now teaches Argentine Tango (apilado milonguero, tanguero, salon, and nuevo), Salsa (and its fusion with Tango, Salsango), Swing and Swango, and his newest passion, Tanenco, a full integration of the dynamic relationship Flamenco dance has with it's music (llamadas al cante, subidas, etc.) into Argentine Tango.

Judy Lopas

Judy comes from a long and widely varied background in theater and dance performing. She already had training in modern, jazz, ballet, African, West Indies and folk dance styles, when a class in Country & Western dancing got her hooked on dancing with a partner. More training in Latin and Ballroom dancing soon followed. As a member of a performance troupe, she was called on to bring new members “up to speed,” and discovered a love of teaching. For the last 10 years her focus has been on teaching both the dance and partnering skills that enable two people to dance well together as a couple.