Dance in Film · 2016
La Chana (2016)
Lucija Stojević pairs rare footage of Antonia Santiago Amador’s explosive 1960s–70s taconeo with her late-life teaching and seated return, preserving a Romani Catalan flamenco artist’s rhythm, virtuosity, and reinvention in her own voice.
La Chana is a 2016 dance documentary centred on ballroom and social dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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Trailer
Official trailer.
The dance sequences in La Chana
4 sequences — what is danced, by whom, and where to find it.
2013 final seated comeback
Flamenco (palo not identified)Danced by La Chana (Antonia Santiago Amador) · Choreography La Chana
La Chana helped to a chair, closing her eyes, and driving intricate rhythms faster and faster.
The culminating comeback concentrates the dance in accelerating chair-bound footwork, resolving the film’s preparation narrative through embodied rhythmic command.
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Archival peak-career performances
Flamenco (palo not identified)Danced by La Chana (Antonia Santiago Amador) · Choreography La Chana
La Chana’s explosive 1960s–70s flamenco performances preserved in archival footage.
Archival performance material makes her reputation legible through actual speed, expression, and rhythmic force rather than retrospective testimony alone.
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Barcelona boudoir practice
Flamenco (palo not identified)Danced by La Chana (Antonia Santiago Amador) · Choreography La Chana
An elderly La Chana still practicing her art in her ornate Barcelona boudoir.
Practicing in her Barcelona room shows how she sustains flamenco rhythm and expression after age and physical limitations change the scale of her movement.
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Young-dancer footwork lesson
Flamenco (palo not identified)Danced by La Chana (Antonia Santiago Amador); young dancers (unnamed) · Choreography La Chana
La Chana showing young dancers the complexity of flamenco footwork.
The teaching passage externalizes her rhythmic knowledge as she demonstrates difficult footwork for a younger generation instead of merely describing it.
Open the film at this point · Stream or rental only — the timestamp is for when you have it playing. No edition-specific timestamp. Opened institutional and distributor records conflict on runtime (72, 82/83, and 86 minutes), so timings were not transferred across editions. Fandango currently lists rental/streaming access.
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