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At 54, dancer Sara Baras is in her prime in a dance form that prizes maturity - and whose modern bailaores are now pushing at the boundaries of its gender roles ...
Read our review of Spanish star Sara Baras’ tribute to Paco de Lucia at Sadler's Wells, part of the 2025 Flamenco Festival ...
Dance Victoria is hosting the North American premiere of ­all-female Nocturna ... Nocturna is the first-ever ­flamenco presentation from Dance Victoria and marks the long-awaited arrival ...
Once worn solely by dancers, the flamenco dress and its contemporary ... silhouette of the flamenco dress is very flattering to the female form, as it is closely fitted to the thigh and at the ...
Flamenco began as a lament ... the exclamation known as the quejío, the cry of lament. Through it all, a female dancer in a polka-dot dress improvises a captivating dance, her fingers either ...
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 ...
Female flamenco dancers down the decades may have caused a sensation by adopting male attire or steps – from Carmen Amaya in trousers to Sara Baras performing the farruca, a dance traditionally ...
The booers probably believe that flamenco is a thoroughly Spanish art form, and that it’s therefore outrageous that a non-Spaniard was judged best female dancer at the Murcia festival. Aside from ...
Grimm and her flamenco company will head north to Taos ... we also have a male dancer and then we have two other female dancers. It's not only a dance show, it's a music show." ...
Originally conceived as a chamber piece in 1915, with dancers, actors, and a female flamenco singer, Falla's score went through different versions, moving to full orchestra and a mezzo-soprano ...
Credit: Elizabeth Sagarin Flamenco is a dance ... loss or love — the gamut of human emotion. The dancer, usually a female soloist, absorbs and sends back those emotions in a way that draws ...