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 ...

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 ...

It is known for flamenco music and dance, for tapas, and as the hometown of the celebrated poet and playwright Federico ...

Flamenco, the plaintive music of Spain, faces the worst crisis since the Civil War. The thundering stomp of the dancers – called zapateando – has been silenced across the nation, another casualty of ...

Japan's Junko Hagiwara has caused a stir in Spain’s traditional flamenco world by unexpectedly winning the prize for best dancer at the country’s leading flamenco festival – the first foreigner to do ...

Celebrating its 50th Anniversary Celebration at The Auditorium, Chicago's beloved Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater will ...

Created in the southern Andalusia region of Spain, flamenco is rooted in the complex multi-cultural and ethnic society of southern Spain from the 16th and 17th centuries. Dancers in Spain recently ...

With the ruffled skirts, taut bodies and intense expressions of flamenco dancers on stage are the live musicians and singers. Traditionally they drive the dancers’ bodies and heighten both the emotion ...

Driving up Interstate 55 on my way to visit Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater last month, my GPS flashed a notification: Tornado warning. Like an on/off switch, torrential storms battered my car ...

Laura Gutierrez Vila, founder of Laviva Flamenco, said that dancing and flamenco are more than her passion; it's her ...

Flamenco dancing has long been a symbol of Spanish identity. Each year, people gather to recognise the day UNESCO recognised it as part of the country's heritage. Dancers in Spain on Tuesday ...