About Phoebe
Phoebe Brack is the founder of the Flamenco Alchemy Academy — a transformative sanctuary for women living within and beyond asylum centres. Here, her professional experience as a flamenco dancer, teacher, and choreographer converges with her deep commitment to social impact. Drawing on her personal journey of transforming pain into power, and her ongoing work with Dutch asylum seekers through Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland, Phoebe has created a hybrid platform where emotional safety is key.
Her unique method fuses the intercultural roots of flamenco — resonating with women from diverse backgrounds — with the healing depth of Jungian shadow work and archetypes. The Academy’s current offering includes an introductory workbook with lesson plans, videos, theory, voice notes, and practical exercises, with further programmes in development.
Phoebe’s passion and talent for dance were recognised early. Accepted into the prestigious Ballet Academy of the University of the Arts in Tilburg (Fontys) as a child, she chose instead to remain at her Steiner school, immersing herself in a rich and varied artistic education. Here, she explored visual and textile arts, music, dance, literature, spirituality, storytelling, theatre, and science — an expansive foundation that would later shape her work as a performer and creator. Alongside her schooling, she trained intensively at Impulse Dance’s pre-professional programme, studying ballet, contemporary dance, African dance, jazz, and flamenco.
Her professional dance career began in her teenage years, performing flamenco at acclaimed venues including Vrijthof Maastricht (Nederlandse Dansdagen), Hedah Centre for Contemporary Art, Vrijburght Theater Amsterdam, Blijburg Amsterdam, the Day of the Rights of the Child at Fortuna Stadium Sittard, and the Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht. From the age of 15, Phoebe travelled regularly to Spain, and by 18 was training extensively with the legendary Farruco family in Seville, Holland, and London — fully immersing herself in their style for years.
Over the course of her career, Phoebe has travelled across Europe, performing and studying with distinguished teachers in ballet, jazz (Afro, modern, lyrical), and contemporary techniques (Graham, Limón, and Release). These experiences enriched her choreographic voice, allowing her to weave flamenco into multidisciplinary, theatrical contexts. By 22, she had founded her own foundation, creating dance-theatre productions that received support from multiple cultural funds. Her work became known for its bold synthesis of tradition and innovation, often exploring themes of identity, resilience, and transformation.
Phoebe was later selected by Dance Company Sally Maastricht and VIA ZUID Limburg for a talent development programme, where for two years, she investigated new ways of deconstructing and rebuilding flamenco within a contemporary framework.
Today, alongside her artistic and social work, Phoebe is now in the last term of her Master’s degree (MA / MSc) in Creative Industries Futures at ACM / Middlesex University London — continuing her mission to draw from own experiences and the rich tales and cultural background of flamenco to bring stories to life and to transform pain into power.