Pasión y Arte continues to simultaneously preserve, strengthen and challenge the flamenco tradition by creating and performing works that maintain flamenco’s classicist artistic integrity and focus on women’s empowerment. Even while preserving flamenco’s rigidity, Pasión y Arte seeks to push its boundaries, embracing the tension that that creates and drawing inspiration from personal experience just as our Gypsy foremothers did.

Our dance forms encourage women to adopt the roles usually embodied by male flamenco dancers. We create experimental improvisational laboratories where women dancers can explore movement without being objectified.

I make and dance feminist flamenco.

Flamenco has traditionally placed women as seductress, sexual object, love object, and always last in the art form’s hierarchy. My work challenges all these rules. It continually uncovers what has always been in the tradition – strong women. I create work about women who are the protagonists of their own stories – a true woman’s journey.

My choreography and direction excavate the truths of the flamenco tradition – strength, passion and determination. These attributes have historically been given only to male dancers, musicians, and singers. I use the flamenco language to unleash feminist truths and peel away at long established and accepted limitations.

I maintain direct contact with flamenco’s source by making an annual pilgrimage to Sevilla, Spain where I study under the traditional old masters and a new generation of feminist women dancers/choreographers. These trips have influenced my work tremendously, broadening and deepening my artistic language and freedom of voice.