In this podcast, artist, educator, and choreographer Laura Sánchez describes her journey with flamenco dance navigating lifes challenges as an immigrant, artist, and mother of a child with multiple disabilities. The conversation reveals a vulnerability that draws in the listener to Sánchez's world of Expressive Flamenco Dance, a modality of expressive art therapy she innovated, practices and shares. With one voice, Sánchez the mother and artist, shares that even when the emotion is quite raw, flamenco gives her the language to embrace difficult surprises as creative material. Her therapeutic process helps her celebrate the full spectrum of what it means to be human with others.

This podcast was made possible by a grant from the Malden Cultural Council, a local agency of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Produced at Urban Media Arts (UMA). https://urbanmediaarts.org

Host: Anne D'Urso-Rose

Editor: Maille Blume

Guest: Laura Sánchez

For details about Laura Sánchez, visit https://urbanmediaarts.org/laurasanchez

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Music

Castanets sounds by the artist Satoration from freesound.org, under Attribution 4.0 International: https://freesound.org/people/Satoration/sounds/57300/ remixed for the purposes of this podcast.

Flamenco Guitar Effects, Sean Elder (KODA), SOHO Metro Park (BMI)

Senorita, by Joseph Isaac Archer (PRS) 50%, George Hollingdrake (PRS)