Carmen Tórtola Valencia


Carmen Tórtola Valencia was a Spanish early modern dancer, choreographer, costume designer, and painter, who generally performed barefoot. Tórtola Valencia is said to have been the inspiration for Rubén Darío's poem, La bailarina de los pies desnudos.

Biography

Tórtola Valencia was also a "pioneer Spanish feminist of the 20th century". Being gay and having leftist ideas, Tórtola Valencia was jailed at the end of the Spanish Civil War. In 1928, she met Magret Angeles-Vila and they were inseparable thereafter. She danced for the last time in 1930 in Quito. She began painting in Barcelona where she died in 1955 and is buried at Poblenou Cemetery.

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The musical scores collection of Tórtola Valencia is preserved in the Biblioteca de Catalunya. Her personal papers and dress collection are preserved in the Centre de Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques in Barcelona.