Many people know New Mexico for Green Chimes, the largest hot air balloon festival in the world and the birthplace of the bomb. But it is also a global center of Flemenko,Emotional dances, songs and music of the Roma people of southern Spain.

Epicnter is albucker. New Mexico’s largest city is one covered World Famous Flemenco Festival It is coming later this month. The University of New Mexico is the only American university that offers graduation and graduate dance degrees with emphasis in Flemenco. National institute of flameko A world class is home to a repartial company, and is a conservative who teaches students at the age of three, young adults who want to become professional dancers.

Flemenco’s popularity has exploded in the last four decades. You can find its distinct percuish footwork from Tokyo to Israel from Toronto, in Latin America, and Miami, New York and San Francisco. But what is different in flameko Nuevo Mexico This is that it is homegron. New Mexico detects its deep Hispanic identity for the arrival of Spanish settlers over 400 years ago.

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“Here in New Mexico it looks like us,” says Vicent Grouogo, a famous singer from Northern New Mexico, who specializes in it Cantt Jondo, Deep song of Flemenko. “There are other people who want to do Flemco, the way it has been done in Spain. But who really makes us special here and what keeps us honest is that it is our own history. Our own resistance, our own celebration, our own liberation.”

Marisol Enkinias, Executive Director of the National Institute of Flemenko, says: “I think there is something in our DNA that connects us back with Flemco’s entrencies.”

Famous dancers, Maria Benittez and Visent Romero opened TabosOr Flemenco Venue, in Santa FE in the 1960s. At the same time, the Encinias family was installing themselves in Albuquerque. While today there are regular performances in both cities, Albuquukrock is hand-down Flameco capital.

Flemko founder of Albuquruck

Marisol’s mother Eva Encenians learned and believed to dance from her mother, Clarita, and is believed to be Grand Dame Flemenko in Albuquerk.

Flemenco’s first family in Joquin and Marisol Encenians, Standing, Mother Eva, Citting, Albuquerk

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Eva, sitting in the costume room of the National Institute of Flemenco, says, “Even though we all present this, very high-ended flames, the argument behind it is to inspire young people and cultivate.” He is surrounded by exceptionally ruled rack racks. “We all started as children and we know what impact Flemenco had on us as young people.”

Outreach is a major part of his mission. Between Eva and her children, Marisol and Jokin, they have taught thousands of flames in the institute and in UNM.

By that end, the institute sends teachers to public schools across the state.

“We are going to clap with music, in 4/4 times, which means we count 1-2-3-4,” Inton’s Sara Ward, a Canadian who is thrilled with Flemenco and now teaches. She is leading a class of fourth-graders at the Taos Integrated School of Arts. Fifteen children happily count their sneakers.

Sara ward teaches Flemenco at TAOS Integrated School of Arts

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The ward said in an interview, “New Mexico is the best place to reach Flemenko outside Spain.” “There is such a rich cultural heritage here. We have grown it here in the earth and hence it is a part of the new Mexican experience.”

One of his bright eyes students is 10 -year -old Saru Mussiylowski.

“I feel the opportunity to get anger out,” she says. “I really like to stomach my feet. But I also feel that I can just flow and be.”

She says, “I love it, because in class I can’t just stop my feet. I will get into trouble.”

Flemenco has been demonstrated with aggression – fast wooden heels, wild singing, baroque guitarwork. Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorka defined DundeThe feeling of flameko, “tragedy-inspired ecstasy … a poetic feeling that is uncontrolled.”

Marisol Encyncius says, it is really difficult to learn, who is also an assistant professor of flameco dance in the UNM.

“This is really, really a challenging artform,” she says. “I had a guitarist friend who said that you spend your whole life in an average trying to be average.”

“I mean, you mean your heart, soul, tears, blood and everything that you do in the form of the institute’s 27 -year -old education manager Evelyn Mendza.

While he has a bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance from UNM, it was Flemenko who captured his soul. “But Flemenko is very different because it is fierce.”

Flamenco’s fierceness, poetry and passion will be celebrated on 20-28 June Festive (The festival puts an additional R in Albuquerque to respect its original Spanish spelling), Which is Now in its 38^Wan Year. This year, fourteen out of the world’s best flameco companies will perform in stages in Albuquerque for fourteen Spain.

“We are Super Blessed that he brings to these unprecedented artists from Spain,” says Noelia Encenians, a 30 -year -old granddaughter of Eva. Now a growing professional dancer, Eva, says she is dancing to Flemenko “Ever since I was a potty trained.”

“Just being in Albuquerque, you have such a huge knowledge base – Spain, watching the wonderful artist of my colleagues, or children dancing and remembering my basics.”

She says, “My cousin has referred to it as Disneyland of Flemenko.”