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 ...

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 ...

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 ...