TRAVERSE CITY — Flamenco: A foot-stomping, hand-clapping, red skirt-swishing dance performed with a stemmed rose clenched between one’s teeth. Or at least that’s what viewers see in the movies.

Carola Zertuche is hardly the first artist to recognize the kinship of flamenco and African diaspora traditions such as blues, son, spirituals and jazz. But the incandescent dancer, choreographer and ...

The stage floor burns with pulsating sounds of footwork, song, castanets, syncopated hand clapping and guitar for a riveting display of this true Spanish art form. High energy and passion defines a ...

At first, they did it behind closed doors. It was the baile funk of 19th-century Spain, a suggestive dance borne out of the clashing of cultures. Old World Europe thought flamenco’s racy, rhythmic ...

That clatter of castanets and quicksilver, percussive footwork announce Gala Flamenca: a quartet of flamenco stars who strut into town with a clutch of supporting dancers, live musicians and rave ...

The stage floor burns with pulsating sounds of footwork, song, castanets, syncopated hand clapping and guitar that are riveting. High energy and passion define a new dimension in Spanish dance ...

Sedice—Spanish Heritage Language & Culture School (www.sedice.org | info@sedice.org), brought Spanish culture to life with Clap and Step: Flamenco and Spanish, a joyful workshop with Halifax Public ...