JAVIER ESCAMILLA
Javier Escamilla is the 2002 World Champion Trick Roper as part of the “Los Hermanos Escamilla” team competition in Las Vegas, Nevada at the WWAC. For more than 25 years Javier has toured throughout the U.S and Europe including the beautiful country that is México.

He spent 5 years with the Ballet Folklórico de Amalia Hernandez in Mexico City. His participation with Ballet Nacional de México with Silvia Lozano at the México City Theatre took place during 10 plus years.

Javier performed for 3 years at XCARET ecological park in Quintana Roo, Cancún also with the Ballet Nacional de México. During a period of 3 months he participated in Las Vegas with world renowned performer Liberace. Throughout 10 years Javier participated with the famous Antonio Aguilar Equestrian Show amongst others of this caliber. In 2004 Javier performed for the Minnesota Timberwolves at the NBA halftime show.

In the last year Javier has added to his curriculum being co-owner and Director of the Ballet Folklórico Nacional and continues to teach the National Sport of México "Floreo de Soga".

ANGELICA ESCAMILLA
Angelica is a 2001 Graduate of Roosevelt University with a Masters in Business Administration. She is extremely involved in the elaboration of the group's costumes along with her mother Teodora Hurtado, the group's personal seamstress. Her role with Escamilla Entertainment is not only to oversee the preparation of performance schedules, contact potential clients for events, preparing performance agreements but is also a dancer in the Ballet Folklórico Nacional.

ARTURO MORENO
Arturo Moreno began his training at the Performing Arts School of the University Autonomous of Nuevo Leon, Mexico with Jesus Daniel Andrade "The Father of Folklore" in Nuevo Leon and Francisco Torres. He toured Mexico and the United States with the "Fandango Folklórico Dance Company" of the Performing Arts School of the University of Nuevo Leon.

Moreno has taken African Dance with the Ko-Thi-Dance Company at UWM, Ballet and Jazz at the William Reilly Academy, and ballet at the Professional Dance Association. Since 1986 he has performed with several local companies throughout the Milwaukee at the Folk Fair. As a choreographer he has taught traditional dances from Mexico to several groups in Milwaukee such as the Spanish Iberian Dancers of Milwaukee, Longfellow Elementary School, and the Czech-Moravian Dancers, just to name a few.

He is continues to be a part of the International Folk Dancers of Milwaukee and the Dunav Serbian Dance Ensemble along with being the choreographer for the Ballet Folklórico Nacional.

Moreno has taught the dancers a great deal. All of the dancers have a diversity of backgrounds- some are trained technical dancers, others have a more organic talent. Moreno's expectations for each of them are the same: to perform at their personal best. He provides them with strategies, with the knowledge that he has been taught throughout his career, to empower them. It is an emotional experience. I try to connect with my dancers, through metaphors and personification, and even jokes, to draw connections between what I am expecting at practice and their own personal experiences. Sometimes this process challenges them to change their concept of dance, a new relationship between movement, intentions, emotion, and the music. More than anything, he asks for commitment, because where there is genuine intention, there is a good result."