If there’s ever going to be a movie biopic of 70s Anglo-American outfit Carmen, the pitch would be: ‘flamenco music and dancing meets progressive rock.’ Although viewed as a musical oddity, they were ...

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 ...

ROYAL PALM BEACH — Every Thursday, the rhythmic sounds of heel taps, hand claps and Spanish sevillanas seep from a classroom in Royal Palm Beach High School. Inside, Gabriela Reyes leads 10 women ...

Flamenco dancer Johanna Deleissegues feels like the driving rhythms, romantic moves and heart-pounding passion of flamenco is an addiction. Gripped by the dance’s lure 14 years ago the Encinitas-based ...

In Southern California, good flamenco dancers abound, but they sometimes have difficulty locating even one noteworthy singer to provide the vocal heart and soul of a program. It felt like a rare treat ...

Madrid-based Compania Belen Maya was the third and final group featured in the New World Flamenco Festival at Irvine Barclay Theatre on the weekend. The 90-minute intermission-less program, called ...

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The moment Sara Jerez-Marlow saw the Spanish flamenco film "Carmen," she fell in love with the intricate dance. At the time, Jerez-Marlow was studying biology and pursuing a degree in medicine. "But ...

A toss of a skirt and a flick of the wrist. It's just one of the many moves that make up flamenco. A traditional art form born in southern Spain. Yet you don't have to travel far to experience it for ...

What makes a flamenco star? A driving sense of rhythm. A visceral, almost carnal connection with the musicians onstage. (Flamenco is primarily a musical form, as the pros love to remind us.) And, of ...

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, ...