A Japanese dancer has been booed after becoming the first foreigner to win at Spain’s most prestigious flamenco festival. When the Cante de las Minas festival jury chose Junko Hagiwara as best female ...

A dancer in a long red dress stands alone in the darkness, facing away from the audience. A keening voice rings out and the dancer’s arms flutter slightly, as if awakened by its mournful sound. “Eres ...

Passionate, exciting, fiery and fierce — flamenco fever has been spreading, ever since the annual Flamenco Festival at New York City Center earlier this month. It's not too late to catch the ...

Kristina Martinez waves a red shawl back and forth as she dances around the stage. Her hands cut through the air, whipping the cloth from side to side, as if she's trying to agitate a large beast. "It ...

There's something intangible about flamenco, says Monica Mota. "It lights everything on fire, and you can't understand why," says Mota, who founded the Spokane-based group Quiero Flamenco. "You're ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Flamenco is flourishing in Atlanta and dancer Ania Bartelmus, who performs under the name La Candela and founded the ensemble La Candela Flamenco, has ...

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!” ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Carlota Santana is neither a star performer nor a choreographer. But her skills as a director have kept her company an active part of the New York ...

Sep. 4—Castanets will click on September weekends at several Santa Fe restaurants, a testament to flamenco's popularity in Northern New Mexico. It's easy to assume the distinctive Spanish dance style ...

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 ...