tatkaar y taconeo
Tatkaar y Taconeo is an electrifying cross-cultural performance group blending India’s Kathak and Spain’s Flamenco, highlighting intricate rhythms, music, expressive storytelling, and percussive footwork of these dance forms.Pooja ganesh and eve salonen
Dancers and choreographers Pooja Ganesh and Eve Salonen came together for the premier of their work “Steps of two Worlds” in April 2025 through House of Kala. The works of Tatkaar y Taconeo are innovative explorations building bridges between traditions, communities, and cultures, as Indian culture and music has had a major impact on how flamenco music and dance were formed. Tatkaar y Taconeo explores these cross-cultural parallels through acapella, live music and impromptu segments
Pooja is a Kathak dancer, choreographer, and vocalist with over 17 years of performance experience across India and the United States. She has performed with Abhinava Dance Company at prestigious platforms including Mysore Dasara, Bangalore International Film Festival, ZEE5 Awards, and Alvas NudiSiri, and has been part of several of their acclaimed productions. In 2024–25, she toured across 11 cities in the U.S. and Canada with Abhinava Dance Company’s signature production. Alongside her performing career, Pooja is a trained vocalist and works professionally as a hardware engineer, bringing a unique blend of artistic and technical rigor to her practice.
Eve is a flamenco dancer, instructor and choreographer originally from Finland. Since relocating to Seattle WA in 2015, she has worked as the artistic director, instructor and choreographer for her own company Flamenco Boreal, and is a Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Northwest Flamenco Academy. Eve is also a co-director of Espacio de Arte, a Seattle WA based non-profit organization promoting flamenco arts in the area. During her 20+ years of career in the flamenco arts, Eve has choreographed for groups of intermediate to advanced level students and continues to teach students in these levels. She has worked in many flamenco companies in Finland and performed in theaters and tablaos on the Westcoast.
Their new work “Panchaboota” (2026) explores the five elements of life through traditions, dance and music, colors and stories. Pooja and Eve are one of the chosen artists for the James Ray Residency and Touring Project – Seattle International Dance Festival in 2026, and they have also been invited to perform at the 2026 San Francisco International Arts Festival.
Featured musicians:
Jed Miley, a flamenco guitarist, composer, and music producer with over twenty years of experience in the flamenco arts.
Erin Lau, a vocalist with a wide experience in many forms of music, currently focusing on flamenco cante (singing) for the past twenty years.
Shivaraj Natraj, a genre-defying vocalist, beatboxer, mridangam artist, and konnakol practitioner whose work bridges Carnatic music with contemporary global sounds.
Rishabh, a multi instrumentalist from the Seattle area who has learned sarod from the young age of two, and actively explores the intersections of jazz and indian classical through his playing and composing.
