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 ...
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 ...
Yohanna Escamilla can tell you about the rhythms that are at the heart of flamenco, but it’s so much more fun to watch her pound them into the floor. For the last several years, Escamilla has been ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...