ROSANNA TERRACCIANO (Calgary) experiments within and around the boundaries of flamenco, dance, contemporary performance and short film, driven by an urgency to expose the introverted and vulnerable aspects of flamenco dance. Her solo work has been presented throughout Canada and Europe, with notable performances including the Bienal de Flamenco (Sevilla, 2014), Coetani Experimental Flamenco Festival (Athens, 2015), Flamenco Empirico (Barcelona, 2011, 2012) and National Arts Centre online (Ottawa, 2021). In 2018, she created the ongoing online short film project, a quiet flamenco (www.aquietflamenco.com). She was Associate Artist at Dancers’ Studio West (Calgary) for the 2020-2022 seasons. In 2023, after five years of development, she premiered her solo trilogy of cities, PLACE/is a city written on this body?, including choreographies by Barcelona’s Juan Carlos Lérida and Montreal’s Myriam Allard, and presented at the 2023 Vancouver International Flamenco Festival. Significant recent collaborations include creation and production periods in Hamburg (Germany), at the Dusseldorf Flamenco Festival (tanzhaus nrw) and at Barcelona’s house of dance, Mercat de les Flors. She is the 2017 recipient of the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize for dance from the Canada Council for the Arts.

“Terracciano’s work is daring. It is powerful. It is feminine. It is poetic…The sensitive balance between past and present is written all over her work.” - Myriam Allard, Co-Artistic Director of La Otra Orilla (Montreal)

“Terracciano’s work highlights and also offers contrasts of cultural, political and social content that belong to her and to flamenco itself. Through her work, I have come to know a type of flamenco that — reaching us from another corner of the world — walks in unison with contemporary approaches within the dance and movement arts of today.” - Juan Carlos Lérida, Founder of Flamenco Empirico (Barcelona)