Mario Maya, a Spanish-born Gypsy who created memorable works of flamenco dance and as a choreographer broadened the scope of the traditional form by adding elements from modern dance, died Sept. 27 of ...
Though many people come for the fiery dancing, the true aficionado knows that flamenco is a marriage of cante (song), baile (dance) and toque (guitar playing). “It’s always a conversation,” says Jason ...
Good things come from Jerez, Spain: the bulls, the sherry, the flamenco. “It’s said the first cry of flamenco was born of Jerez de la Frontera,” said Maria Bermudez. Bermudez’s show is intimate ...
Navajita Plateá, one of the most acclaimed and recognized gypsy flamenco bands on Spain's music scene make their Los Angeles debut on Saturday, November 5 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre, with their ...
"We were floored. She was amazing," says Menéndez, founding director of the festival that brings celebrated Spanish artists and rising stars from various flamenco traditions to venues around the Bay ...
About an hour south of Sevilla in a rural Spanish pueblo called Morón de la Frontera are the remains of a Moorish citadel, a cathedral and a rather gawky monument to a gamecock. Little else there ...
In a Buenos Aires theatre last summer, white-haired Maestro Arturo Toscanini embraced a swart, black-haired, sloe-eyed dancer and cried: “Never in my life have I seen such fire and rhythm!” ...
Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya (or Farruquito as he is better known) is one of the most famous names in flamenco — and one of the most tragic. In 2001, the now 33-year-old performer watched his father, ...
Good things come from Jerez, Spain: the bulls, the sherry, the flamenco. “It’s said the first cry of flamenco was born of Jerez de la Frontera,” said Maria Bermudez. Bermudez’s show is intimate ...
Linda Machado is doing what she loves, and it's got people moving their feet to a different beat. Many people living in Yuma County and the Southwest trace their roots back to Spain. And it's in them ...