When Alexandre Dumas toured Spain in 1846, he indulged in what had become a ritual for romantics. Entering the Andalusian city of Granada, the French writer and his coterie of arty companions found a ...
Until we read The Spanish Gypsy, nothing would have persuaded us that Miss Evans could write lines so absolutely discharged of meaning as these : — “For strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to ...
Sorcery of all sorts captures our imaginations. There’s witchcraft, with its errant rites for reward and retribution; love – at times seeming just as supernatural – casting its own spells, and art, ...
One of the great stars of flamenco dance, Spanish Gypsy Carmen Amaya (1913-63) got her start as a teenage street performer with her guitarist father in a poor quarter of Barcelona; she quickly became ...
Most people don’t watch Jennifer Lopez to check out how accurate her flamenco dance steps are. We doubt they even notice her feet. Still, Dallas flamenco dancer and promoter Julia Alcántara believes ...
A small army of Manhattan’s Latins turned out to see Carmen Amaya, famed Spanish gypsy dancer at the Roxy Theater last week. But a very critical segment of that army really went to hear one of her ...
Mario Maya, a Spanish-born Gypsy who created memorable works of flamenco dance and as a choreographer broadened the scope of the traditional form by adding elements from modern dance, died Sept. 27 of ...
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