ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A University of New Mexico professor who started a Flamenco degree program has announced that she’s retiring and her daughter will take over.
Eva Encinias tells Albuquerque TV station KRQE that she will continue her work at the National Institute of Flamenco during her retirement.
Encinias said she belongs to one of the Flamenco families that came to the United States after the Spanish Civil War and her family brought the dance to New Mexico.
She went on to get a degree in dance at UNM, later developing the Flamenco concentration at the university which took off around the year 2000.
Encinias said hundreds of students go through her Flamenco classes every year and come from all parts of the country plus Costa Rica and Puerto Rico
She has spent two-thirds of her life at the university growing the program and recruiting dancers from Spain to teach.
Encinias also was responsible for starting Festival Flamenco Albuquerque.
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