Alishanee Chafe-Hearmon is a dancer and artist originally from New York City and currently based in Berlin, Germany. Her formation as a flamenco dancer began at age 4 with her mother, Maya de Silva Chafe, and later with Soledad Barrio when she joined and toured with the company Noche Flamenca. She has also studied at the Martha Graham school and has decades of classical training. Most recently she received a scholarship to study at Carmela Greco’s semenario in Cadiz, Spain. She has also studied with Carmen Ledesma, Rafael Campallo, Raquel Heredia, El Farru and Leonor Leal.

Alishanee choreographs solo work as well as with her ensemble, Symbolic Movement Choir. Her work researches the relational language between musician and dancer, specifically in transposing the traditional structures of flamenco into different tools and forms. The song and dance establish a pattern, destroy it, repeat it, synchronize, desynchronize searching for the infinite spaces between harmony and disharmony.

She also writes for Apricot Press and Flamenco Artists International