Carmen Amay Flamenco Dancing

The history of famous flamenco dancers are known to be influence to others dancers today. Carmen Amaya was a gypsy dancer that developed to be marvelous female flamenco dancer in the twentieth century (Flamenco - Carmen Amaya). She was born in Somorrostro in Barcelona in November 2, 1913 which she lived in a desolate gypsy neighborhood (Flamenco - Carmen Amaya). At the age of four, Carmen started dancing in taverns and bars with her father. She was also inspired and influence by her family who were gypsy flamenco performers like her grandfather that was a dancer as well as her father and her aunt was a guitarist (Flamenco - Carmen Amaya). Carmen went to Paris at the age of eight in 1929 which she, her cousin María, and her aunt, “La Faraona” was hired to perform there. They

She even met President Roosevelt of the United States and the Queen of England. Carmen Amaya performance presented the way her flamenco dance was a feeling of soul and passion (BIOGRAPHY OF CARMEN AMAYA). “The fire, grit, electricity, passion and “duende” (soul) of the Gypsy style” that it connects with flamenco is due to the influence of Carmen Amaya. (FLAMENCO / CARMEN AMAYA). Then, she decided to do her last film called La Historia de los Tarantos which she performed with another icon of flamenco dancer name Antonio Gades (andulusian.com). Although Carmen never had to the chance to see the results of film, due to a contraction of kidney disease that prohibited her from dancing (Flamenco - Carmen Amaya). She died November 19, 1963 at the age of fifty in Barcelona due to this disease (Withers and Goldberg). Carmen Amaya will always be remembered in Buenos Aires because a location in the street that has been named after her (Flamenco - Carmen Amaya). According to Withers and Goldberg, “though she triumphed on stages all around the world, she always remained true to her Gypsy