LA SINGLA | Spanischer Filmclub - Black Box im Filmmuseum Düsseldorf

In the organizer's words:

LA SINGLA

E/D 2023 - 95 min - OmU - digitalDCP - FSK 6 - D: Paloma Zapata - C: Dani Mauri, Inaki Gorraiz - D: Antonia Singla (La Singla), Helena Kaittani, María Alfonsa Rosso, Adelfa Calvo, Isabel Steva Hernández and others.

"Through the beauty of her performances and the heartbreak of her story celebrates and preserves LA SINGLA the legacy of one of the greatest flamenco dancers of all time." (Kinocheck)

Antonia Singla, born in a suburb of Barcelona in 1948 and deaf as a result of meningitis, learned to dance flamenco at an early age - without hearing the music, just by listening to the guitar strums. At the age of 17, she revolutionized flamenco as "La Singla", went on tour with Ella Fitzgerald, danced for Dalí and performed at the Olympia in Paris. But before she turned 30, she disappeared from the stage forever.

Five decades later, journalist Paloma Zapata embarks on a search and reconstructs the life and tragedy of "La Singla". A gripping documentary film against forgetting, which tells the story of "La Singla's" great contribution to flamenco, Roma culture and the deaf community in the form of an exciting search for clues.

Introduction: Markus Gabriel (film and television scholar)

Price information:

Admission 7 Euro - reduced 5 Euro - with Black Box Pass 4 Euro - ticket reservation Tel. 0211 - 8992232