Women of Flamenco Expand the Edges of Passionate Tradition
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The four women who starred in âMujeresâ (âWomenâ) offered stunning proof that the old art of flamenco lives on most vitally in committed new interpreters.
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Women now entering their 30s want prospective partners willing to break from traditional gender roles.
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OLYMPIA -- Maria Bravo set roses at an altar Sunday to celebrate a 500-year-old tradition begun in her native Mexico. Bravo came to St.
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Sometimes it sounded like a rave,  sometimes like the philharmonic, as innovators and  traditionalists fought for the soul of tango at an annual  festival in Buenos Aires.
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In advance of an exhibition, artists from all over the world converge on Santa Fe to get to know the terrain, their mission and one another.
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There is a great deal of punctuated stillness, pacing and prowling in âSigns and Wonders,â performed as part of the New York Flamenco Festival 2008.
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Many young Latina converts say Islam offers women more respect and better treatment.
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A monthlong festival called MexicoNow has highlighted the challenges of defining cultural identity.
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Martha Graham, a tiny, raven-haired woman with the passion and fury of several armies, put modern dance on the map. And like any choreographer, she didnât do it alone.
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Not everyone is following the lead of the Seattle Art Museum and its evocation of Spain this month with its handsome exhibition "Spain in the Age of Exploration," but some are, including the Seattle Baroque ...
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A kitchen, known by the Spanish name La Cocina, is a shared-use space created two years ago to provide a platform for women entrepreneurs without assets.
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Flamenco has become one of the New York area's favorite dance forms, as proven by this weekend's festival and scattered programs throughout the year.
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A decade ago Paula Westâs dark, clotted vocal sound was her main calling card. Today the power of that sound is matched by a probing musical intelligence.
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Cristina Pato manages to find sensuous sounds on the Galician bagpipe, an instrument usually associated with martial anthems.
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Opera is no stranger to sensitive  singers and demanding divas.
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Spain can trace a link between its heady days of empire, culminating in the conquest of the 'New World' in the reign of Isabel the Catholic, who died 500 years ago, and a passion for chess, protagonists of the intellectual's favourite boardgame maintain.
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A full 30 years after her death, diva Maria Callas, the most celebrated opera singer of the post-World War II period, remains both a favourite for opera-lovers and a legend outside the world of classical music.