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The Conversation: The women of flamenco

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The women of flamenco

12/09/2022 GMT

BBC World Service - The Conversation, The women of flamenco

How dancer Rosa Cisneros and guitarist Caroline Planté keep the art of flamenco alive.

Kim Chakanetsa discusses all things the passion and flair of flamenco with dancer Rosa Cisneros and guitarist Caroline Planté.

Flamenco is a complex Spanish artform that includes music, singing and dancing. People often associate it with expressive female dancers - but what role do women actually play in flamenco? 

Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros is a Spanish-Serbian-American dancer, sociologist and dance historian. Her family is of Roma origins and her mother taught her how to dance flamenco at a very young age. Rosa is a team member of the dance and Flamenco sections for the RomArchive, an international digital collection promoting and preserving Roma arts and culture, and a researcher at Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research.
 
Caroline Planté is a flamenco guitarist from Canada and one of the world’s leading female performers. She learnt to play from her father, a flamenco virtuoso, and started performing at the age of 14. After moving to Spain, where she accompanied the country’s top performers, she published 8 Reflexiones, and became the first woman to compose and record a solo flamenco album.

Produced by Alice Gioia

(Image: (L) Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros, credit Koko Zin Photography. (R) Caroline Planté, credit Hervé Leblay.)

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