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About Ninotchka Bennahum
Santa Barbara, CA
Ninotchka Bennahum is Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
An interdisciplinary dance, art, and performance scholar, her areas of teaching and research include Spanish Modernism and feminist historiographies of flamenco, ballet, and contemporary performance. She is the author of two books: Antonia Mercé, ‘La Argentina: Flamenco & the Spanish Avant-Garde (2000), a biohistory of Mercé’s Spanish dance modernism, and Carmen, a Gypsy Geography (2013), a transhistorical study of the Gitana in Middle Eastern and Spanish cultural history.
She has co-authored two global dance anthologies: The Living Dance: A Global Anthology of Essays on Movement & Culture (2012), coedited with Judith Chazin-Bennahum (mom), and Flamenco on the Global Stage: Theoretical, Historical and Critical Perspectives (2015).
She co-curated Transformation & Continuance: Jennifer Muller & the Re-Shaping of Am