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Carrying The Pain Of Centuries

Image by Javier Fergo

UNM dance professor Eva Encinias Sandoval has spent her life with flamenco.  Its fierce energy, she says, is the "cultural expression of a people who had no voice" -- the persecuted gypsies, or Romani people, of Spain.  Eva and her Albuquerque-based organization, the NationalInstitute of Flamenco, have been working for almost 30 years to promote an art form that's largely unknown to American audiences.  For seven days in June, celebrated dancers, singers and musicians from Madrid and Andalusia will perform, and lead workshops, as part of the Institute's 28th Festival Flamenco Internacional.

Eva previews the dancers and singers who will headline Festival Flamenco 28 in this longer version of the interview.

20150530FestivalFlamenco28LongVersion.mp3

Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.