Mosaics, Oscar Nieto, flamenco dancer biography

Mozaico Flamenco presents "MOSAICS" which documents the History of Flamenco in Vancouver with important flamenco personalities and mentors to the artistic landscape of Vancouver Flamenco since the 1980s. This is a biography of award-winning flamenco dancer, Oscar Nieto, who has performed in Vancouver, BC, Canada since 1983 as both a dancer and singer. He has served for over 50 years as a mentor, teacher, historian and educator of Flamenco, bringing countless devotees to the art form in North America through his work with Mozaico Flamenco, Al Mozaico Flamenco Dance Academy and Mozaico Flamenco Dance Theatre.
Oscar Nieto is Mexican-American-Canadian, born in Texas, raised in Los Angeles, USA and currently living in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is a biography of Oscar Nieto who speaks of his journey as an LGBTQ2IA flamenco artist growing up in turbulent times of racism and bigotry and how this has shaped his values of Tolerance, Inclusivity, Acceptance.
This series is brought to you by the DIGITAL NOW 2022 initiative of the Strategic Funds Program, Canada Council for the Arts #bringingtheartstolife.
We are filming on the traditional, unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations in Greater Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada and are grateful to be here.
Kasandra Lea, documentarian
Lia Grainger, video editor
www.mozaicoflamenco.com
Background: Vancouver Flamenco as an art form began in the 1950s with an Argentine-Spanish bailarin named Angel Monzon, moving through the 1960s with up and coming flamenco guitarists Victor Kolstee and Harry Owen, and with the arrival of Spanish cantaores Jose Lara in 1967 and Angel Romero in 1970. The period we are documenting in a series of 5 MOSAICS documentaries are of maestros since the 1980s including Gerardo Alcala and Peter Mole, flamenco guitarists, and also flamenco dancers, Oscar Nieto, Rosario Ancer and Veronica Maguire.
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