Ensambles Ballet Folklórico

What Ensambles Ballet Folklórico does

Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco is a nonprofit Mexican folkloric dance ensemble founded in 1992 by Artistic Director Zenón Barrón, a Mexico-trained choreographer and doctoral graduate of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes who previously toured internationally with Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández. The company is headquartered at 26 7th Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, with its primary teaching location at the Alonzo King LINES Dance Center, 3rd Floor, Studio No. 6. Its roster comprises roughly 45 part-time dancers spanning high school students with no prior dance experience to working professionals with 10+ years of experience, supported by a six-member executive board.

The ensemble monetizes through two streams: (i) live performance bookings for festivals, corporate events, and cultural celebrations at Bay Area venues including the Opera House, Fort Mason, Presidio Theatre, Brava Theater, Sigmund Stern Grove, and the San Mateo Performing Arts Center; and (ii) recurring adult dance classes open to all experience levels (Company classes Monday/Thursday evenings, Academy classes Wednesday/Friday evenings). Pricing is not disclosed; both performance inquiries and class registration are handled via direct contact (415.580.2919) and email sign-up.

Customer acquisition is community- and event-driven rather than digital: marquee festival appearances (San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, SF International Art Festival, Stern Grove Festival), partnerships with venues like LINES Dance Center and Peninsula Ballet Theater, cross-cultural collaborations such as 'Half and Halves' with Duniya Dance and Drum Company, and a website-based photo gallery and mailing list. The company carries intangible-asset strength via its 2009 Isadora Duncan Dance Award, 2012 Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Award, and Corazon Del Barrio award, plus original full-length productions including 'The Paintings of Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo In Movement' (2012), 'Xichulense Yo Soy' (2018), 'The Golden Era: A Homage to Mexican Cinema,' and the 2023 'Carmen & Frida' co-presentation. There is no disclosed app, no social media presence catalogued, and no digital revenue channel.

Name

Ensambles Ballet Folklórico

Legal name

Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco

Website

https://ensambles-sf.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco is a nonprofit Mexican folkloric dance ensemble, founded in 1992 and led by Zenón Barrón, that books live performances at Bay Area festivals and venues and runs adult dance classes at the Alonzo King LINES Dance Center.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Performing Arts and Dance Instruction

NAICS

Dance Companies (711120), Dance Companies (71112), Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (711)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Cultural & Folk Dance Performances (MPAGADAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dance Performances (THAJAFAD), Dance & Movement (Ballroom, Contemporary, Social Dance) (EDAAAGAD)

Keywords

• Folkloric dance performances
• Mexican cultural dance
• Adult dance classes
• Ethnic dance ensemble
• Cultural arts education

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Performance and Event Booking: The company generates revenue through booking performances for events, festivals, and cultural presentations. They offer performance options to meet various event needs.
2. Dance Classes: Ongoing adult dance classes offered at multiple weekly time slots. Classes are open to all levels of experience.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ensambles Ballet Folklórico is a San Francisco-based Mexican folkloric dance ensemble that produces and performs original choreographic works interpreting Mexican cultural themes, and offers ongoing adult dance classes for all experience levels. Revenue is generated by booking performances for events, festivals, and cultural celebrations, and through weekly adult dance instruction at the Alonzo King LINES Dance Center.

Product overview

Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco is a dance ensemble offering Mexican folkloric dance performances and adult dance classes. The organization provides ongoing classes for adults at all experience levels and produces original dance shows including 'The Paintings of Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo In Movement,' 'The Golden Era: A Homage to Mexican Cinema,' 'Xichulense Yo Soy,' and collaborative productions like 'Half and Halves.' The company operates from Alonzo King LINES Dance Center and performs at various San Francisco venues.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dance Performances Professional Mexican folkloric dance performances showcasing authentic cultural traditions through choreographed presentations, bookable for festivals, corporate events, cultural celebrations, and educational demonstrations at various Bay Area venues.
• Adult Dance Classes
• The Paintings of Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo In Movement Dance performance interpreting the works of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, exploring elements of Mexican culture rooted in class differences through original choreography.
• The Golden Era: A Homage to Mexican Cinema Dance performance drawing inspiration from Mexico's Golden Era of Cinema (Epoca de Oro), featuring choreographies based on iconic movies of that period.
• Xichulense Yo Soy

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Duniya Dance and Drum CompanyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative performance of 'Half and Halves' exploring the Punjabi-Mexican community cultural phenomenon. The two dance groups work together to display how this unique culture evolved into present-day communities and traditions, presenting both cultures' distinctive but similar characteristics through dance and music.
• Alonzo King LINES Dance CentercoreOthersPrimary teaching and rehearsal venue for Ensambles dance classes. Located at 26 Seventh Street, 3rd Floor, Studio No. 6, San Francisco, CA 94103. Classes are held at this location multiple times per week.
• Peninsula Ballet TheaterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-presenting 'Carmen & Frida' performance at San Mateo Performing Arts Center on April 1-2.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Peninsula Ballet Theater: Bay Area ballet company co-presenting 'Carmen & Frida' with Ensambles. Operates a comparable hybrid model of performance productions and community education programs in the same regional market.
• Ballet Folklórico de la Universidad de Guadalajara: University-affiliated Mexican folkloric dance company where Zenón Barrón previously performed. Directly comparable in repertoire, training lineage, and institutional structure as a Mexican folkloric dance ensemble.
• Duniya Dance and Drum Company: Bay Area-based cultural dance company focused on West African and South Asian traditions and an active Ensambles collaborator. Directly comparable as a regional cultural-dance ensemble producing original cross-cultural work.
• Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández: Mexico's flagship folkloric dance company where founder Zenón Barrón trained and toured. It is the methodological and stylistic reference point for Ensambles and the most direct peer in terms of repertoire, training pipeline, and performance category.

Regional players

• ODC/Dance: Pioneering Bay Area contemporary dance company with an associated school. Comparable as a regional dance organization balancing original performance productions with year-round dance education programming in the same San Francisco market.

Broad incumbents

• San Francisco Ballet: America's oldest professional ballet company and the dominant dance institution in the San Francisco market. Comparable as a Bay Area performance company competing for the same venue, audience, and donor pool, though operating at much larger scale and in a different dance genre.
• Compañía Nacional de Danza de México: Mexico's national dance company covering both contemporary and folkloric repertoire. Comparable as a large-scale institutional dance organization operating in the same Mexican dance tradition at a national level.

Others

• Alonzo King LINES Ballet: The contemporary ballet company whose LINES Dance Center is Ensambles' primary teaching venue. Comparable as a Bay Area dance institution sharing physical infrastructure and a similar artistic-community mission, though focused on contemporary rather than folkloric dance.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ensamblesbf
• Facebookfacebook.com/ensamblesbf
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ensambles-ballet-folklorico-de-san-francisco

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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