Sep. 4—Castanets will click on September weekends at several Santa Fe restaurants, a testament to flamenco's popularity in Northern New Mexico. It's easy to assume the distinctive Spanish dance ...

Flamenco is unusual in the dance world in prizing maturity over youth. Sylvie Guillem, the former prima ballerina, was unique in the world of ballet for performing until she was 50.

Marisol Encinias has fond memories of sitting in her grandmother’s dance studio along with her brother, Joaquin, as she ...

I've learned the style of dance, and I know certain aspects of it, and what I do is I teach classical dancers, flamenco style movements. But I will clarify that, no, we're not traditional flamenco ...

For a cheat sheet to Seville's flamenco scene, catch a street performance in one of the city's public areas, like Plaza de España, where new flamenco dancers and students go to cut their teeth ...

The renowned dancers, Maria Benitez and Vicente Romero, opened tablaos, or flamenco venues, in Santa Fe in the 1960s. At the same time, the Encinias family was establishing itself in Albuquerque.

Fellow flamenco dancer Pablo Rodarte, now a Cedar Crest resident, said he first encountered Benítez 59 years ago, when at the age of 19 he left the U.S. to study in Spain.

For a cheat sheet to Seville's flamenco scene, catch a street performance in one of the city's public areas, like Plaza de España, where new flamenco dancers and students go to cut their teeth ...

María Benítez instructs a flamenco dance class at El Museo Cultural in 2005. Benítez, who died Tuesday, helped build the dance’s popularity in the area over decades starting in the late 1960s ...