la Fibi

Phoebe Vernier

La Fibi is one of San Francisco’s premier flamenco dancers. She has been studying, teaching, and performing flamenco for 23 years. She was born in Hollywood to Actor/Dancer parents and was raised in New York City, Hollywood, San Francisco, and Virginia. La Fibi grew up on the road with her mother, a professional Middle Eastern dancer, and was surrounded by the world of show business and live Arabic music from the earliest age, performing on stage at the age of four.

She has studied in Spain and in the U.S. with La Monica, La Tania, Isa Mura, Rosa Montoya, Maria Magdelena, Jose Antonio, La Tati, Farruquita, Maria Benitez, Luis Ortega, Rafael Campallo, Jose Galvan, and Belen Maya. La Fibi has performed extensively in the Bay Area as a featured Soloist. She has danced in the companies of Rosa Montoya’s Bailes Flamencos, La Tania Music and Dance, Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco, and has toured nationally with The Boston Flamenco Ballet, The Company of Rinaldo Rincon, the renowned Maria Benitez Spanish Dance Company, and the Madrid based “Compania Noche Flamenca” at the Hollywood Bowl, starring Isabel Bayon and Soledad Barrios.

La Fibi worked for six years at the popular Latin Supper Club, SOL Y LUNA, in downtown San Francisco, where she was a core member of GRUPO SOL Y LUNA, a traditional flamenco cuadro, and as a singer, percussionist, and dancer with SOL Y LUNA, a rumba/flamenco/salsa fusion band. The SOL Y LUNA band released a CD, which is available at Tower Records. The group performed at the Great American Music Hall, at dozens of festivals and events with audiences in the thousands, and with the Nuevo flamenco guitarist, Ottmar Leibert. DANCE MAGAZINE featured La Fibi on it’s June 2001 cover.

She currently teaches extensively in Petaluma, and is an invited guest instructor for national flamenco workshops and festivals. She continues to perform regularly with Arte y Compas and Toque Flamenco in San Francisco. She is the Director of LA FIBI FLAMENCO DANCE, and presents the Bay Area’s finest Flamenco performers in her exciting shows ~ FLAMENCO! LIVE! in Sonoma County.