La Singla

We present the heartbreaking story of Antonia Singla, a woman who was born in the suburbs of Barcelona within the Roma community. A deaf woman who learned to dance without hearing the music and used flamenco as therapy to drive away her pain, developing an extraordinary talent that led her to be considered the best flamenco dancer in the world at just 17 years old.

“La Singla” is not a film about flamenco. Nor about the Roma community. Nor even about the deaf community. Although all those topics are there too. “La Singla” is a universal story about an extraordinary character who will move, hypnotize and hook the world with her mysterious gaze, her extraordinary way of expressing and feeling flamenco art and her heartbreaking story.

This film will rescue from oblivion a woman ahead of her time, unjustly erased from history despite the great contribution she made to flamenco, Roma culture and the deaf community. A pioneer in a culture that originally reserved the “pedestal of great names” for men. We believe it is necessary to place her name in an appropriate place in history, as well as her contribution to the internationalization of an art that had previously been associated with the marginal rather than the intellectual. The project also vindicates flamenco – declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO- from a renovating point of view, trying to move it away from the obsolete stereotypes.