When Alexandre Dumas toured Spain in 1846, he indulged in what had become a ritual for romantics. Entering the Andalusian city of Granada, the French writer and his coterie of arty companions found a ...

Until we read The Spanish Gypsy, nothing would have persuaded us that Miss Evans could write lines so absolutely discharged of meaning as these : — “For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to ...

Antonio Moreno lives on what is reputedly Madrid’s most dangerous street, where dealers openly offer any type of drug around the clock. He owns a four-bedroom house with a pool; he works out of his ...

One of the great stars of flamenco dance, Spanish Gypsy Carmen Amaya (1913-63) got her start as a teenage street performer with her guitarist father in a poor quarter of Barcelona; she quickly became ...

Sorcery of all sorts captures our imaginations. There’s witchcraft, with its errant rites for reward and retribution; love – at times seeming just as supernatural – casting its own spells, and art, ...

A small army of Manhattan’s Latins turned out to see Carmen Amaya, famed Spanish gypsy dancer at the Roxy Theater last week. But a very critical segment of that army really went to hear one of her ...