Building the fire : spanish and flamenco dance in Vancouver
http://localhistory.vpl.ca/link/cni48690
- Author
- Pepper, Kaija
- Date
- Fall 2012
- Geographic Location
- British Columbia - Vancouver
- Material Type
- magazine article
- Abstract
- "...proudly multicultural Vancouver has been slow to develop a Spanish presence. In terms of dance, it wasn't until the 1940s that a local woman-British Columbia-born Kay Armstrong, of British heritage-established a Spanish identity on Vancouver stages... The article gives short profiles of Vanco…
- Author
- Pepper, Kaija
- Role
- Author
- Date
- Fall 2012
- Person
- Armstrong, Kay
- Chouinard, Jocelyn
- Geographic Location
- British Columbia - Vancouver
- Material Type
- magazine article
- Physical Description
- photographs
- illustrations
- Source Title
- Dance Collection Danse
- Issue
- 72
- Pages
- 22-27
- Abstract
- "...proudly multicultural Vancouver has been slow to develop a Spanish presence. In terms of dance, it wasn't until the 1940s that a local woman-British Columbia-born Kay Armstrong, of British heritage-established a Spanish identity on Vancouver stages... The article gives short profiles of Vancouver dancers Kay Armstrong and Jocelyn Chouinard. It briefly profiles Vancouver dance figures Angel Monzon, Oscar Nieto, Victor Kolstee and the groups, studios and festivals they started (Kay Armstrong Dance Theatre, Las Chicas, Flamenco Heresy, Flamenco Rosario).