Since her first professional performance at the age of 9, Ms. Peña-Marin has been featured at renowned events and performance venues, including the International Folk Dance Festival at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Mariachi USA Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, Fiesta Broadway hosted by Univisión TV, and El Grito festivities for the City of Los Angeles. She studied Mexican folk dance under various renowned directors, including: Carlos Ochoa, Rosie Peña, Emilio Rivas, and a variety of maestros from the United States and Mexico. She has participated in many dance conferences sponsored by the Asociación Nacional de Grupos Folklóricos. 

In 2013, she choreographed the holiday parade, Disney ¡Viva Navidad!, at Disney California Adventure Park, and continues to remount the production every holiday season. Her contributions to the Mexican folk dance community are invaluable. Her dedication to ensuring the historical and cultural accuracy of the regions she presents is crucial to the success of the groups under her direction.

In 2005, Ms. Ibarra and her husband moved to Spain, where she studied at the world-renowned Centro de Arte Flamenco y Danza Española, Amor de Dios in Madrid. While she was there, she studied with flamenco masters, such as: La Truco, David Paniagua, Inmaculada Ortega, Marta Jimenez, and Manuel Reyes Maya, the latter being her primary influence during that time. While in Madrid, Ms. Ibarra also performed at the tablao, El Juglar, in the historic Flamenco district of Lavapiés.

In addition to her solo work, Ms. Ibarra has collaborated with many other artists. She performed as a featured dancer in the Briseyda Zarate Flamenco Dance Company. She collaborated with Collage Dance Theatre’s 25th anniversary performance, Governing Bodies at Los Angeles City Hall in 2010, under the artistic direction of Heidi Duckler. She joined Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre for a reprise of Governing Bodies at Ventura City Hall in 2015. She regularly works in partnership with Karina Velasco and her company, Cuatro Caminos Flamenco, as well with Claudia de la Cruz and her company. She continues to perform with Linda Andrade, and she is a featured dancer in her company Sakai Flamenco, which works in collaboration with the Los Angeles Music Center to bring Flamenco performances to Los Angeles area schools. Because of her various projects and collaborations, Ms. Ibarra was nominated for and accepted into the International Dance Council at UNESCO in 2014.

Audience members and peers have described her as possessing deep musicality, elegant arms, and detailed hand technique, aire, and an infectious joy for dancing. Mrs. Ibarra is often introduced as a dancer that embodies the true intensity of Flamenco, primarily due to her expressiveness and powerful stage presence. She has been teaching at local dance studios since returning from Spain and is regularly invited to local schools as a master teacher and guest performer. Mrs. Ibarra can be seen performing regularly at various venues on the local Los Angeles and Southern California Flamenco circuits.

Ms. Skoglund grew up competing on a national level and had many performance opportunities including the 1993 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Michael Jackson as well as assisting in the 1998 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Queen Latifah and Boyz II Men. More recently, she was a member of The Super Bowl Pep Squad in Arizona. She attended the world renowned Body Arts and Science Teacher Training Certification Program in Newport Beach, CA where she received her pilates certification. Ms. Skoglund has returned to OCSA, teaching jazz during the academic day as well teaching ballet for the Ballet Folklórico Conservatory. She also teaches and choreographs on a competitive level at The Dance Spot where her love of dance began.

Ms. White’s works have been presented at American Celebration, American College Dance Festival, Chapman University faculty concerts, Chapman Touring Company, The Core Collective, Epilepsy Network Benefit Concert, MixMatch Dance Festival, and Pasadena Dance Festival. She is currently on faculty at Chapman University and the South Coast Conservatory. Along with teaching at the South Coast Conservatory, she is the executive advisor to their national award winning dance team and managing director of the Jazz Department. In 2009, she founded Compass Dance Company, a pre-professional contemporary dance company for emerging artists ages 14 and older.