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 ...

Melissa Cruz’ life is full of motion — jarring stops, dramatic twists, hypnotic rhythms — and that’s just when she’s on stage. As one of the Bay Area’s stalwart Flamenco dancers, Cruz has carved out a ...

Among Maya’s acclaimed shows are 2005’s Dibujos and her one-woman show Romnia, which she’s performed throughout the U.S. in recent years. Credit: Courtesy of Arte y Pasión San Antonio flamenco troupe ...

A dancer in a long red dress stands alone in the darkness, facing away from the audience. A keening voice rings out and the dancer’s arms flutter slightly, as if awakened by its mournful sound. “Eres ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Elba Hevia Y Vaca offers Flamenco dance classes in Overbrook to empower women. She created Pasion Y Arte 24 years ago, feeling distraught about the sexualization that was ...

There's something intangible about flamenco, says Monica Mota. "It lights everything on fire, and you can't understand why," says Mota, who founded the Spokane-based group Quiero Flamenco. "You're ...

“People came from everywhere to see her shows,” an admirer said — including, on at least one occasion, the ballet superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov. By Brian Seibert María Benítez, an American dancer and ...