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Image description: Angelina Ramirez is a Latina woman with light brown skin and long straight black hair parted in the middle. She is sitting in front of a white backdrop and focuses directly at the camera with a serious look. She is wearing colorful earrings that are blue, red and orange and a black shirt that slightly exposes her left shoulder. Photo by Steven Meckler.
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Tohono O’odham/Pasqua Yaqui/Hohokam; Tucson, AZ
Angelina Ramirez is a flamenco movement artist and teaching artist living in Tucson, Arizona. Ramirez’s artistic work explores what it means to be a queer, Latinx flamenca, practicing in a traditional Roma/Gitano form of dance. As a teaching artist, she is interested in the intersections of arts and healing, focusing on work with elders of all abilities integrated flamenco with autistic individuals. She is devoted to promoting accessibility, as well as eradicating ableism, racism and bigotry by practicing and promoting dialogue, acceptance and community participation. Ramirez is the founder of Flamenco Por La Vida in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures fellow. In 2018, she received the Arizona Commission on the Arts’ Artist Research and Development Grant to support the development of her evening-length work /SER/. Ramirez is an original member of Yjastros, the American Flamenco Repertory Company and has toured with world-renowned, New York-based company Noche Flamenca. Along with teaching and performing, Ramirez produces events and festivals and is currently the curator for the Traditional and Ethnic Dance Festival with the Southwest Folklife Alliance.
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