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To promote flamenco’s traditions, the couple organized the nonprofit Siempre Flamenco organization in 2002, presented their first Siempre Festival de Cante Miami in 2006, and ever since have ...
A lot of folks know New Mexico for green chiles, the largest hot air balloon festival in the world, and the birthplace of the bomb. But it's also a global center of flamenco—the passionate dance ...
It was 17 years ago when flamenco dancer Celia Fonta and her husband, guitarist Paco Fonta, organized the first Siempre Flamenco Festival de Cante Miami. Their mission was to present to Miami ...
Osvaldo Golijov’s opera about Federico García Lorca makes its Met debut in a dance-heavy production, directed by the choreographer Deborah Colker.
The UVA group will present a work that combines flamenco «cante» (song) and «toque» (music) with poetry, all using Antonio Machado’s biography as a narrative thread.
Created in 1961, the "Cante de las Minas" festival is considered to be the world's most important annual flamenco festival.
The most electrifying vocal contributions came from Alfredo Tejada as Ramón Ruiz Alonso, the Falangist who pursues and arrests Lorca, singing the howling flamenco cante jondo.
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 ...
Junko Hagiwara, who performs under the stage name "La Yunko," dances during the finals of the Cante de las Minas flamenco competition in La Union, Spain, on Aug. 10, 2024. (Photo taken by Rafa ...
Flamenco, which UNESCO recently recognized as part of the World’s Intangible Cultural Heritage, is a complex art form incorporating poetry, singing (cante), guitar playing (toque), dance (baile ...
"Here in New Mexico it's got to sound like us," says Vicente Griego, a celebrated singer from northern New Mexico who specializes in cante jondo, the deep song of flamenco. "There's other people ...