Lorena Gomez-Maese is a native Californian born in San Pedro, a coastline of Souther California. Lorena and her family have lived here for 6 generations, her family is an artistic one. Lorena started dance lessons at the ages of 4 and she has danced in 2 professional dance companies. For the past 5 decades she has taught, directed, choreographed, and produced her own theater, everywhere, from the streets to the stage.

Lorena is married with 3 children and 8 grand-children. She wrote this ballet because she is all about tradition, and culture. It was time to write a short inspirational story, and due to the device generation, it was important for her grandkids to experience tradition, culture, theatre, music, and dance.