Dance fitness is a fun way to work your body all while having fun! Join flamenco dancer Angelina Ramirez for Flamenco Fit and get your body moving to festive flamenco and latin rhythms! This class is a total body workout with music that will improve movement, core strength and balance and can be done both seated and standing. No experience or…
Dance fitness is a fun way to work your body all while having fun! Join flamenco dancer Angelina Ramirez for Flamenco Fit and get your body moving to festive flamenco and latin rhythms! This class is a total body workout with music that will improve movement, core strength and balance and can be done both seated and standing. No experience or flamenco shoes necessary.
Angelina Ramirez is a flamenco dancer 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 and integrated flamenco with autistic individuals. She is devoted to promoting accessibility and eradicating ableism, racism and bigotry by practicing and promoting dialogue, acceptance and community participation. 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. Ramirez is an original member of Yjastros, the American Flamenco Repertory Company and has toured with world-renowned, New York-based company Noche Flamenca. Ramirez is a 2022 Dance/USA Artist Fellow. In 2021, she received the Master-Apprentice Artist Award through Southwest Folklife Alliance for her dedication and commitment to flamenco arts. Ramirez 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/.
