Roseline Dorcin

Biography

Born in Plaisance, Haiti, the artist, La Roseline was introduced to dance at the beginning of adulthood. 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 shared her Andalusian immersion between flamenco singing and dance classes with cantaora Ana Gómez and maestra La Concha Vargas. Upon her return, La Roseline concentrated her energy towards mastering her knowledge of flamenco in various schools in Toronto particularly with ARTE Flamenco. She took workshops with Leonor Leal, Olga Pericet and Manuel Liñan. She added two lengthy stays to Madrid, studying castanets at Escuela Amor de Dios with maestras Maria Torres and flamenco with La Truco in 2016 and 2017.

In 2022 and 2024, she received a dance residency fellowship from Montreal Arts Interculturels where she co-choreographed and performed a duet in the “QUEERDO Love Cabaret” and other dances. La Roseline has stunned and charmed the public 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.

In 2023, 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. Her show will explore the traumatic experience of slavery and exude all the ostentatious and imperceptible Afro-influences in flamenco rhythmic … an ODE YSSEY to an afro-flamenco journey!