Carla Flores

Educator

Institute of Contemporary Dance

Carla Flores is originally from Austin, Texas, where she began her dance training with Austin Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Austin, and Tapestry Dance Company. She later attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) in Houston as a dance major, with opportunities to perform nationally and in China. Her passion for teaching dance led her to the University of Oklahoma (OU), where she graduated with a B.F.A. degree in Ballet Pedagogy with special distinction, and performed with the Oklahoma Festival Ballet touring nationally and abroad. Ms. Flores then continued her dance career, performing and teaching across New York City, later completed an M.A. degree in Teaching Dance in the Professions with a concentration in American Ballet Theatre’s (ABT) Ballet Pedagogy from New York University (NYU). From 2012-19, she worked as Program Administrator and Faculty for NYU Steinhardt’s Dance Education program, and as a fully certified, affiliate teacher in ABT’s National Training Curriculum, she was a ballet instructor for ABT at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School’s children’s division, a teaching artist for their educational outreach programs, and a teacher for the Young Dancer Summer Workshop and the Summer Arts Institute at Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts. Since returning to Houston in 2019, she has become a certified teacher in Progressing Ballet Technique (PBT), and is currently on faculty at Houston Ballet Academy, HSPVA, and TopFlight Dance Center.