Described as a “…powerful dancer” by Dancemagazine, Cihtli Ocampo began her dance studies at the age of eight and moved to NYC at seventeen to study Dunham, Horton, jazz, tap, modern and ballet at the Ailey School and Steps On Broadway. In 1999, she moved to Spain on a Fulbright Scholarship for the study of Flamenco and Spanish Dance. She spent the next eleven years immersed in Gitano (Spanish Roma) culture, training and performing with many of the world’s most important flamenco artists including the Farruco family, Ines Bacan and Manuel Molina. In 2004 Ms. Ocampo was the featured female dancer in Tony Gatlif's film Exils (Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2004). In 2006 Ms. Ocampo became a founding member of her husband Ethan Margolis’ Arte y Pureza Flamenco Company, an international Flamenco company dedicated to diffusing pure, roots Flamenco Gitano worldwide.

Ms. Ocampo now lives in Los Angeles where she continues her life-long commitment to cross-cultural understanding through the arts. In addition to performing, Ms. Ocampo works as a guest choreographer, teacher and movement coach for Cal Arts, UCSD, Pomona College, Santa Monica College and independent studios and productions worldwide. She has choreographed over 30 original works for stage and film and taught thousands of students using Ethan Margolis’ Steps Last pedagogy for teaching flamenco rooted in understanding rhythm, song, improvisation and history. Her latest project, Our Ephemeral Nature, is a short film produced by Ms. Ocampo in which she performs an original work exploring the ephemerality of life, art, nature and performance through an investigation of internal rhythms and improvised reactions to an ever-changing environment. She has a BA in Political Science from NYU; an MFA in Dance from Hollins University and she recently completed her introductory Dance for PD training.

Raised in Cleveland, OH, Ethan Margolis comes from a family of musicians. Unhappy with the commercial music industry’s focus, he moved from playing punk rock music and blues in Ann Arbor, Michigan to beginning a new life in Seville, Spain at the age of 21. He spent the next 11 years immersed in the Gitano (Spanish Roma) circuit of Andalusian Flamenco music and specifically amongst the Pinini Family of Gypsy singers. In 2006, with the desire to support roots Andalusian Gitano Song (Cante Gitano Andaluz), Margolis premiered his Flamenco touring company 'Arte Y Pureza' (Art and Purity). Arte Y Pureza toured internationally for the following six years. In 2007, Margolis produced and played guitar on Aires Gitanos the long awaited release of the iconic Flamenco Singer/Dancer, Miguel Funi. In 2009 Margolis composed an impressive two hour score for Spanish Day, The Flamenco Rock Opera which toured in the USA and featured artistic collaborator, Bill Watterson (creator Calvin and Hobbes). Since moving back from Spain to Los Angeles in 2010, Margolis has dedicated himself to furthering the investigations started by Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Sabicas as they all explored the essential ties between Jazz, Blues, and Flamenco. Margolis’s first cd release for a jazz quintet was in 2014 with Soleangeles. In 2016, he debuted his first original vocal album, Sonikete Blues, which was recorded in Andalusia and Los Angeles. The album was featured as an iTunes editor's choice in the contemporary Blues category and received praise from producers like Ricardo Pachón (producer of Camarón de la Isla) and Larry Cohn (producer of the Robert Johnson Anthology and Sony’s Roots n Blues series). The respected jazz editorial, All About Jazz, released a feature article on Margolis’s solo career and his album, Sonikete Blues.

Margolis continues to perform and collaborate with top Jazz and Flamenco artists and just finished production on his electro-futuristic world jazz EP entitled Arsa100 La Fórmula where he trades licks with the legendary Spanish pianist and Wynton Marsalis-collaborator, Chano Domínguez. Margolis’s guitar playing was also featured on Sufi artist, Omar Faruk Tekbiliek’s album Love Is My Religion. He accompanied Macy Gray at the private WME partner event of May, 2020 and is passionate about supporting Macy’s charity MyGood.org which donates to the families of the victims of police violence. He is a featured endorsed guitarist of the music company Fishman in their 2019 catalogue. Margolis is also a part time Spanish lecturer with California State University and a founder of CSUN’s first bilingual Spoken Word contest. He just recently led an October presentation at the Fall 2020 AATSP conference for social justice.