La Roseline

Born in Plaisance, Haiti, the artist La Roseline was introduced to flamenco at the beginning of adulthood at the reputable dance school Migrations in Canada, Quebec City. After winning a flamenco singing bursary at the Toronto International Flamenco Festival in 2012, La

Roseline flew to Spain to study at the prestigious flamenco school Cristina Heeren in Sevilla. She enjoyed her Andalusian immersion, between flamenco singing with cantaora Ana Gonez and flamenco dance classes with maestra La Concha Vargas. After the completion of her studies, La Roseline returned to flamenco, taking workshops with Leonor Leal and Olga Pericet. She added two intensive cursillos to Madrid, studying castanets at Escuela Amor de Dios with maestras Maria Torres and flamenco at Instituto Flamenco with La Truco in 2016 and 2017.

In 2022, while taking flamenco classes with Aurélie Brunelle and Rae Bowhay, she received a dance residency fellowship from Montreal Arts Intercultural, where she co-choreographed and performed a duet in the “QUEERDO Love Cabaret”. La Roseline has stunned and charmed the public with her intensive and emotional interpretation in numerous shows in Toronto and Montreal: “Essencia Flamenco”, “Nuits Blanches”, “Fragmentos” and more recently “Revel’Action” and “Flamenco Night” at La Puerta Negra and Salla Rosa Theatre in Montreal. In July 2023, she was invited by Image Quilt Production to dance in “Rage & Honey: A Night of Black Flamenco” at the Actor Studio Theater in New York City.

An ongoing trailblazer, La Roseline courageously embarked on the journey of production in fall 2023. With her newly created collective of artists, ORIGINS, she aims to give dancing a historic education and offers a window of opportunities to Black flamenco artists. Her show will explore the traumatic experience of slavery while exuding all the ostentatious and imperceptible Afro- influences in flamenco rhythmic. Siete, ocho, nueve, diez… an ODEYSSEY to an afro-flamenco journey!