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Eva Encinias conducts a flamenco class for kids at the Tierra Adentro Charter School in 2014. She has retired from teaching at the University of New Mexico but will stay involved with the charter school. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
That’s how long dance has been a part of her life. Her mother, Clarita Garcia de Aranda Allison, owned a dance studio in the North Valley near Edith and Candelaria.
“I was raised in her dance studio,” she said. “I learned tap, ballroom, and traditional folk dances from different regions in Mexico. But flamenco was her signature and I became immersed.”