Oleaje Flamenco creates electrifying, passionate and uplifting Flamenco productions that transmit the authentic heart of Flamenco under the artistic direction of dancer Amelia Moore.  Oleaje Flamenco produces shows with some of the best flamenco talent around.

Amelia's love of movement and dance began at an early age with ballet, tap and jazz classes, and at 15 years old she fell in love with Middle Eastern dance and began her intensive studies under her mentor Susan Evans. At the age of 17, Amelia began performing professionally as a dance soloist and playing flamenco palmas with the World Music group Children of the Revolution, with whom she performed internationally for 12 years for audiences of up to 30,000 people and danced in a PBS special. Additional milestones of her pre-Flamenco career include graduating with a BA in Spanish with a Minor in Dance from the University of Washington, earning a 500hr Yoga teaching certification from Annie Carpenter of SmartFLOW Yoga, and performing as an invited dance soloist in both Istanbul and Cairo with the renowned Turkish percussionist Burhan Oçal.

In 2006 she began her Flamenco studies in earnest, and in 2009 she decided to devote her life to the pursuit and development of this incomparable art form. As a Flamenco artist, her credits include producing shows under the name Oleaje Flamenco and performing in shows as an invited dancer with great artists including Luis de La Tota (percussion), Israel Heredia (guitar), Jesus Montoya (voice), Ricardo Garcia (guitar), and Jose Moreno (dance, percussion, voice). Highlights also include performing as a dance soloist in Arizona Theater Company's reimagined musical Man of La Mancha in their 2017-2018 season to popular acclaim, receiving a MAC award nomination for her dance role in the play. More recently, she has had the honor of performing as an invited dance soloist with the legendary guitarist Antonio Rey.

She studies regularly and intensively with the world's top Flamenco artists and credits her beloved mentors with her growth over the years as an artist, including Maria Bermudez 'La Cha Cha', Belen Maya, Encarnacion Jaeger and Sara de Luis.

Along with her colleagues Eve Salonen and Jackie Maclin, this year she launched Northwest Flamenco Academy and is also co-director of the non-profit organization Espacio de Arte, which is dedicated to promoting Seattle community access to the Spanish flamenco cultural traditions of dance, music and singing.

Jed Miley is a Flamenco guitarist, composer, producer and teacher based in Seattle. He began playing Flamenco guitar in 1996, after hearing a recording of Sabicas. In Seattle, Jed was lucky to find Marcos Carmona as his first Flamenco guitar teacher and later worked in La Pena Flamenca de Seattle with Rubina Carmona. In 2003, he moved to New York where he worked professionally for several years, playing at prestigious venues including Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Joe's Pub, Caramoor Festival, Jacob's Pillow and various tablaos. In 2009, Jed joined Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana and performed, toured and acted as a teaching artist with the company for three years

Jed has studied extensively in Seville, Spain at La Fundacion Cristina Heeren with Nino de Pura, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, and Pedro Sierra. In addition to playing traditional Flamenco, Jed is known for stretching harmonic and melodic structures with his Flamenco fusion projects and collaborates with artists such as Alfonso Cid, Elena Andujar, Miguel Vargas, and Sara Erde. In 2011, Jed travelled to Spain as a producer of the documentary, "Hola, Flamenco" that aired at the Philadelphia independent film festival in the summer of 2012. He recently finished producing a Flamenco/Jazz fusion album for the guitarist Nathan Herrera, Sueños, which was released in January 2012, and his own Flamenco Rock band Dientes de Caramelo released their debut album, Pulpo, in March 2012. Since returning to Seattle, Jed has been working on creating his new recording studio, Pinche Studios, which opened in 2013.

A native of Seattle Rachel began her journey of dance at age three with ballet and expanded to creative dance, tap and jazz.  Rachel was exposed to flamenco in 1998 after renting a new release called Flamenco by Carlos Saura.  Searching for a dance combining the precise and expressive movements of jazz as well as the foot percussion of tap Rachel was immediately drawn to flamenco, especially the music. The internal strength, versatility, concentration, and expression that flamenco requires has been an unending source of inspiration. Flamenco has given her an amazing community, connection to her Sephardic ancestry, and a powerful medium to share her story and spirit. Rachel has had the great honor of studying with Rubina Carmona, Sara de Luis, Ana Montes, Encarnación 'La Paloma' Jaeger, Viviana Orbeck, Amelia Moore and Eve Salonen.  She performed in Peña Flamenca de Seattle for ten years and now teaches at Spectrum Dance. Rachel continues to perform with Cuadro Azahares, and has been a guest artist with Oleaje Flamenco.

Now living in Seattle, Eve has made flamenco her profession. Always striving to improve and grow, she continues her Flamenco education both in the United States and Spain. Her specialties are the use of Flamenco props such as the bata de cola, abanico and mantón. Eve collaborates with many Seattle-based flamenco artists and groups, teaching and performing regularly. Along with her colleagues Amelia Moore and Jackie Maclin, this year she launched Northwest Flamenco Academy and is also co-director of the non-profit organization Espacio de Arte, which is dedicated to promoting Seattle community access to the Spanish flamenco cultural traditions of dance, music and singing.

Son of Marcos and Rubina Carmona of Carmona Flamenco, Seattle and Los Angeles' former premier flamenco performance group, David is one of only a handful of US-born flamenco artists who was raised by flamenco performers. A professional cajón player having been immersed in flamenco throughout his lifetime, and even since before birth while his mother performed professionally with baby in utero, his early years were spent playing in the rehearsal studios while show preparations were underway. He could also be found napping in the studio as a small child while the musicians and dancers pounded out the distinct rhythms of flamenco. This music is in his bones. While this genre is a large part of his musical journey, David also regularly plays drum set with jazz, rock, Latin, hiphop, funk, and electronic groups. David has played a variety of percussion in numerous groups for many thousands of souls at events such as Lightning In A Bottle, Imagine Music and Arts Fest., Cascadia NW Arts & Music Festival, and recently shared the stage with luminary artist Yemanjo in Northern California. Many years of playing music with Seattle legends Marmalade, and groups like Sonic Shiva have solidified his unique and eclectic musical expression.