On November 16, the International Flamenco Day is commemorated. UNESCO declared this dance to be Spanish Intangible Heritage of Humanity on November 16, 2010, and since then, this day has been celebrated in a number of ways. FLamenco singing, guitar playing and dancing are the three main pillars of the artform. Yet, its history has a complex and often debated past. To explore this entangled past, C-DaRE’s artist and researcher Rosa Cisneros with the support of US, Romani technowizard and stepdancer, Russell Brown, the duo have organised a three-day event on Nov 14th-16th to honour Flamenco. Over the three days Roma and non-Roma authors will expand on their latest chapter in Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots The Body Questions, Edited by K. Meira Goldberg and Antoni Pizà. The book is a collection of essays that poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. The book asks how can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance? Over the three days Cisneros will host the conversations and authors will expand on their chapters. One of the days will be dedicated to a virtual performance by Russell Brown aand followed by a post performance Q&A session.