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 nocturnal art form. If the average person is winding down a typical Tuesday by 9 p.m., Isaí and Olivia Chacón are in the throes of work. The husband-and-wife artistic collaborators have ...
Over the course of their 14 seasons competing together, three-time ice dance world champions and team Olympic gold medalists, Madison Chock and Evan Bates have become known for their creative, ...
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 ...