Elisabet Torras Aguilera is a dancer, choreographer, and educator born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, specializing in Flamenco and Spanish dance. She holds a B.A. in Spanish Dance and Flamenco from the Conservatory of Dance and Theater of Barcelona and continued her studies later in Madrid. 

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Elisabet toured Europe and Asia and the US with Flamenco, Clasico Español and Zarzuela companies. Her dynamic career has included collaborations with renowned companies such as the Manolo Carrasco Flamenco Company and Javier Latorre’s Somorrostro Dansa Flamenca. In the U.S., she has toured nationally with Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company, A Palo Seco Flamenco Company. She has also appeared as a guest artist and choreographer with Dance Heginbotham, the International American Ballet, Grammy and Emmy Award-winner Hernan Romero, and the jazz-flamenco fusion band New Bojaira.

 

Her performances have graced some of the most iconic stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Detroit Opera Theatre, Central Park SummerStage, The Carolina Theatre (NC), Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), and Le Poisson Rouge in New York. In her hometown of Barcelona, she has performed at venues such as Teatre Tívoli, Teatre Romea, and Teatro Apolo.

Elisabet’s choreographic repertoire include Las Sinsombrero Flamenco, her first conceptual flamenco multimedia production, which debuted in 2023 and 2024 at the Thalia Spanish Theatre in New York, where she had previously presented her choreographies in the show Mosaico Flamenco. Also notable are the award-winning short film Paloma by Sophia Conger, in which she starred in the lead role; her reconstruction and performance of Escuela Bolera’s 1893 work by Carmen Dauset, Carmencita, featured at the SVA Theatre in New York; and her soloist role in La Vida Breve with The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle (NC), all of which are part of Elisabet’s choreographic creations.

 

She has also worked with celebrated choreographers including Javier Latorre, Belén Maya, Deborah Colker, and Antonio Najarro. From 2022 to 2024, she performed as a soloist in Ainadamar at the Detroit Opera Theatre and served as Assistant Choreographer and Dancer for the production’s staging at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she also led audition workshops. Currently, Elisabet tours across the U.S. with the immersive production We Call it Flamenco by Fever, while also performing regularly at venues throughout the Tri-State area.

 

As an educator, Elisabet has taught Flamenco, Spanish Classical Dance, and Castanets in Barcelona, Madrid, and Moscow. In the U.S., she is a guest teaching artist with the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Ballet Hispánico (NYC), and Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater (Chicago), where she debut her piece “Hable con Ella” at the 2022 American Spanish Dance and Music Festival. She is also a passionate teaching artist for school programs focused on inclusivity and cultural outreach through Spanish Dance Art Company and Hispanic Culture Arts Inc.

 

In recognition of her artistic contributions, Elisabet received the Award for Outstanding Artistic Career in 2019 and was honored as Embajadora del Arte y Cultura en el Exterior in 2023.