Laura Sánchez Flamenco

Welcome to Holland! is a multidisciplinary production that combines flamenco with visual art, poetry, humor, metaphor, spoken word and installation to make visible the role of the mother or caregiver in the Community of Disability. This autobiographical project is inspired by my lived experience as a female, hispanic immigrant flamenco artist and mother of two children, one of them with multiple disabilities including Cerebral Visual Impairment. Desiring to make my dance work accessible, I will collaborate with Mary Hale, installation artist, architect, and educator, to transform Welcome to Holland! into a spatial, immersive, multisensory performance, inclusive for the community of the blind and illuminating for general audiences. This project will shift the paradigm for traditional dance performances, reducing reliance on the visual sense and amplifying tactile, taste and aural components, giving the audience a texture, taste and feeling of what Welcome to Holland! is about.