It’s Monday morning, my second dance class of the day. “The floor’s not going to break,” says Felipe Mato, my teacher. It’s one of the many ways he will find to tell me that I’m not stomping hard ...
A guitar starts slowly, the strumming building in intensity. A singer emerges, lamenting lost love, pain, death. Suddenly a dancer appears, and another, and amid staccato hand-clapping and shouted ...
The Lagniappe Stage took on an Andalusian atmosphere as New Orleans Jazz Fest crowds cheered on fierce flamenco rhythms clapped, tapped and stomped to somber-toned songs of lonely gypsies, wandering ...
Three-time world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates announce their programs for the 2025-26 Olympic season.
Though flamenco is one of the most iconic elements of Spanish culture, its origins are somewhat mysterious. Most of what is known comes from oral histories, passed down from generation to generation, ...
UPON THE FIRST resounding, authoritative clack of shoes in my first flamenco dance class, I was relieved and grateful that teacher Encarnación Muñoz had handed over a pair of worn flamenco dance shoes ...
Summer’s heavy precipitation might have you thinking Fort Lauderdale’s Flamenco in the Sun Festival is a misnomer. Then again, that brow-beating Andalusian sunlight is probably what got the Southern ...