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 ...

Nevertheless, flamenco came to be consolidated into a form with recognisable rhythms and textures. It is now defined by the four essential elements of voice, dance, guitar and Jaleo – the audience’s ...

The sounds of heels clicking on wood and hands clapping were, as foreseen, ubiquitous in Seville during the past week, marking the start of the southern Spanish city's annual Flamenco Biennial. By ...

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 ...

A guitar starts slowly, the strumming building in intensity. A singer emerges, lamenting lost love, pain, death. Suddenly a dancer appears, and another, and amid staccato hand-clapping and shouted ...

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 ...