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 ...

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 ...

Three-time world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates announce their programs for the 2025-26 Olympic season.

In so many countries, live dancing cannot be separated from live music. That's been true of Spanish flamenco for centuries, but what made Saturday's flamenco concert at the Howard Theatre so memorable ...

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 ...

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, ...

I’ll never forget the first time I saw Maria Benitez dance flamenco. It was at a popular Santa Fe hotel snuggled into the languid, rolling hills of the Southwest. I was beyond mesmerized. I’d never ...

Dancer Amalyah Leader ’19 fell into flamenco’s embrace at age 13, when she decided it was a better fit for her expressive style than ballet. By high school, the Northampton native was traveling to New ...

Flamenco is a music and dance form strongly associated with Spain, but here in the United States it's also linked with one state in particular - New Mexico. And as John Burnett reports, the epicenter ...