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 ...

Olivia Fatica, Spanish teacher at Cleveland Heights High School, wanted her students to get a real taste of Spanish culture. So she set up a flamenco dance lesson for her classes with La Romera, an ...

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.

It’s Monday morning, my second dance class of the day. “The floor’s not going to break,” says Felipe Mato, my teacher. It’s one of the many ways he will find to tell me that I’m not stomping hard ...

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 ...

Though flamenco is one of the most iconic elements of Spanish culture, its origins are somewhat mysterious. Most of what is known comes from oral histories, passed down from generation to generation, ...

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 ...

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 ...