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By Debra Cash

International flamenco artist Omayra Amaya’s upcoming Boston shows represent a moment of both reunion and reflection.

She was a toddler interrupting her parents’ flamenco performances; a teenage summer student in Manhattan cutting her teeth on jazz dance rhythms under the tutelage of Betsy Haug and Luigi; and a student at the Boston Conservatory wondering how to fuse contemporary movement with her gypsy inheritance.

Today, Omayra Amaya is an established international artist who returns to Boston January 31 through February 2 to present Antes del Fin (Before the End) in the new performance space at Arrow Street Arts in Cambridge.

Amaya, the Puerto Rican-born grandniece of the mid-century flamenco star Carmen Amaya, is based in Miami, where her widowed mother Olga lives, but has a special place in her heart for Boston, where, she says, “everything began for me.

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