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Description
On November 16, the International Flamenco Day is commemorated throughout the world. UNESCO declared this dance to be Spanish Intangible Heritage of Humanity on November 16, 2010, and since then, this day has been celebrated in a number of ways. Flamenco singing, guitar playing and dancing are the three main pillars of the artform. Yet, its history has a complex and often debated past. To explore this entangled past, C-DaRE’s artist and researcher Rosa Cisneros with the support of US, Romani technowizard and stepdancer, Russell Brown, and flamenco scholar and dancer MeiraGoldberg, have organised a three-day event on Nov 14th-16th to honour Flamenco.
Over the three days, Roma and non-Roma authors will expand on their latest chapter in Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots The Body Questions, Edited by K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizà. The book is a collection of essays that poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. The book asks how can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance?
-Introduce Flamenco History and current debates to broader audience
-Roma History Awareness
-Explore how can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora? Neither are the essays presented here limited to flamenco, nor, consequently, are the responses to these questions reduced to this topic. What all the contributions here do share is the wish to come together, across disciplines and subject areas, within the academy and without, in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning, as well as the depths of the wisdom and knowledge it holds and sometimes reveals.
The project allows for the artists and researchers to dialogue and to explore how practice can inform research and vice-versa. Flamenco has a contested past and is always evolving. The debates centered on historical realities can be limiting and therefore, Celebrate and Recalibrate Flamenco opens up online dialogical spaces for the general public, artists, academics and anyone with an interest in Flamenco to come together, learn, share, question, react and gather different perspectives on current research streams in the field of flamenco performance.
Over the three days, Roma and non-Roma authors will expand on their latest chapter in Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots The Body Questions, Edited by K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizà. The book is a collection of essays that poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. The book asks how can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance?
-Introduce Flamenco History and current debates to broader audience
-Roma History Awareness
-Explore how can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora? Neither are the essays presented here limited to flamenco, nor, consequently, are the responses to these questions reduced to this topic. What all the contributions here do share is the wish to come together, across disciplines and subject areas, within the academy and without, in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning, as well as the depths of the wisdom and knowledge it holds and sometimes reveals.
The project allows for the artists and researchers to dialogue and to explore how practice can inform research and vice-versa. Flamenco has a contested past and is always evolving. The debates centered on historical realities can be limiting and therefore, Celebrate and Recalibrate Flamenco opens up online dialogical spaces for the general public, artists, academics and anyone with an interest in Flamenco to come together, learn, share, question, react and gather different perspectives on current research streams in the field of flamenco performance.
Key findings
-Introduce Flamenco History and current debates to broader audience
-Roma History Awareness
-Explore how can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora? Neither are the essays presented here limited to flamenco, nor, consequently, are the responses to these questions reduced to this topic. What all the contributions here do share is the wish to come together, across disciplines and subject areas, within the academy and without, in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning, as well as the depths of the wisdom and knowledge it holds and sometimes reveals.
The project allows for the artists and researchers to dialogue and to explore how practice can inform research and vice-versa. Flamenco has a contested past and is always evolving. The debates centered on historical realities can be limiting and therefore, Celebrate and Recalibrate Flamenco opens up online dialogical spaces for the general public, artists, academics and anyone with an interest in Flamenco to come together, learn, share, question, re act and gather di fferent perspectives on current research streams in the field of flamenco performance.
-Roma History Awareness
-Explore how can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora? Neither are the essays presented here limited to flamenco, nor, consequently, are the responses to these questions reduced to this topic. What all the contributions here do share is the wish to come together, across disciplines and subject areas, within the academy and without, in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning, as well as the depths of the wisdom and knowledge it holds and sometimes reveals.
The project allows for the artists and researchers to dialogue and to explore how practice can inform research and vice-versa. Flamenco has a contested past and is always evolving. The debates centered on historical realities can be limiting and therefore, Celebrate and Recalibrate Flamenco opens up online dialogical spaces for the general public, artists, academics and anyone with an interest in Flamenco to come together, learn, share, question, re act and gather di fferent perspectives on current research streams in the field of flamenco performance.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 1/08/22 → 1/12/22 |
Keywords
- Flamenco
- dance
- Cultural Awareness
- equality
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BBC Podcast: The women of flamenco
Cisneros, R. K. (Invited speaker)
20 Sept 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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KEYNOTE: Ballet Cymru dance day conference
Cisneros, R. K. (Keynote speaker)
25 Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Foot Percussion Discussion with Simeon Weedall Hannah James and Rosa Cisneros
Cisneros, R. K. (Invited speaker)
7 Apr 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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LifeStrings Screendance work
Cisneros, R. K. (Artist), 5 Apr 2022Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Digital or Visual Media
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ORIENTALISMO E DECOLONIALIDADE NA DANÇA: da pesquisa à prática docente
Cisneros, R. K., 1 Dec 2022, NARRATIVAS DIVERSAS NAS ARTES CÊNICAS - Volume II. Moraes, A., Silva , J. J. & Conceição, T. P. (eds.). Elaborada pela equipe da Biblioteca da ESEFID UFRGS, p. 80-92 12 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Sites of Inclusion: Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Participation in the Arts Sector in Wales
Cisneros, R. K. (Editor), 25 Oct 2022, Arts Council Wales. 57 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report › peer-review
Press/Media
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BBC The Conversation Podcast: The women of flamenco
12/10/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment