Our Board Brings diversity to our projects
Flamenco Fever has gathered an incredible team to take our mission to the next level. Experts in marketing, event management and the flamenco arts make spreading flamenco fever to the masses a priority!
The mission of Flamenco Fever is to diversify DFWs cultural landscape, while preserving the Hispanic heritage of Oak Cliff through the promotion of authentic flamenco performances.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statement
Executive CHAIR
CHARMAINE WOOD -
Charmaine Wood holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and has 30 years of experience working for Mead Johnson Nutrition, an infant formula manufacturer. Her current title is Hospital Nutrition Business Manager in which she has responsibility for 16 hospitals in North Texas. She is a patron of the Arts and enjoys international travel. Charmaine has been a member of the Flamenco community in Dallas and Fort Worth since 2012 and has organized volunteers to support and facilitate programs and performances for Flamenco Fever for the past several years. She looks forward to joining the Board of Directors as Director of Volunteer Services.
Fernando dubove
has been practicing immigration law exclusively for over 20 years and is now retired.
Mr. Dubove’s attention to each individual client resulted in him being named the Best Immigration Attorney in Dallas by the Dallas Observer. He and his family immigrated to the U.S. from Argentina when he was a child. He has been a supporter of the arts for decades and sponsor of Flamenco Fever for 8 years, and now joins the board of directors to help further the cause.
Always a lively and energetic presence, we enjoy his charismatic and comedic demeanor
DONNA MILLER - MEDIA RELATIONS
As the principal and founder of Miller Consulting, Donna Miller offers extensive experience in fundraising, marketing, public relations, strategic planning, and community relations. Donna is a hands-on consultant, working on everything from managing large teams to personally hanging lights prior to a special event. As a consultant, she helps clients reframe thinking, provides thought leadership, and guides projects successfully into new territory. She stays up to date on trends in public relations, business, nonprofits, politics, and the arts through reading, research, and interaction with a broad range of people.
Melodia Sadjadi
Melodia is a long-time Flamenco enthusiast and supporter of international music and artists in the metroplex. She speaks several languages and is an advocate for international human rights, orphans, and stopping child executions through different organizations, including Amnesty International.
She regularly cares after the sick in Dallas using both traditional medicine and the power of prayer. After many years following Flamenco Fever's activities as a fan, she aspires to grow as an artist and to spread awareness of international artists in the metroplex by getting involved on a deeper level in 2023.
charles johnson - treasurer
knows what it takes to build a successful business. His extensive background in finance and investing has enabled him to direct projects from clubs to restaurants to real estate portfolios. Working with companies like Power Design, JE Dunn and KBI, he has developed a full comprehension of the construction business. His company, Upcycle Design, takes on commercial and resdential remodels as well ground up new builds. Previous endeavors as a restaurateur have enabled him to provide guidance in the hospitality food/beverage service at events, and his experience as a sound engineer and flamenco percussionist is crucial to all concerts and presentations. He also dances and plays guitar.
Julia Alcantara - Artistic Director
Julia Alcantara is the driving force behind Flamenco Fever. With over 25 years of production experience, she contributed from a young age, to the cultural landscape of Dallas as a teacher, fundraiser and magic maker. Key to the Project is recruiting and coordinating a team of experts that enable her to focus on the quality of the performances.
Flamenco Fever is the nonprofit branch of Alcantara Arts and Entertainment, which has been bringing the best of flamenco music and dance to North Texas since 1998. Founder Julia Alcantara has produced quality entertainment for DIFFA, the Margarita Ball, a 30-day run at the State Fair of Texas , and was production manager for 12 years for the Dragons Halloween Ball, as featured in the Dallas Morning News, Observer, DMagazine, the Advocate, and on Univision, Telemundo, Good Morning Texas, and Discovery Channel.
Jay (Jairo) Carvajal
is a citizen of Venezuela that came to the US to pursue his master degree at the University of Dallas in Corporate Finance. An accomplished, self-motivated, multilingual finance professional with two MBA’s in Corporate Finance & International Finance. In additon Jay is a musician and humanitarian at heart. He has been involved in several volunteer endeavors with the Salvation Army and Saint Jude. As a genealogy enthusiast Jay found out that he is related by blood to Luis de Carvajal de la Cueva who was the first governor of the Spanish province of Nuevo León in present-day Mexico, he was the first Spanish subject known to have entered Texas from Mexico across the lower Rio Grande.