Northwestern Latin Music Ensemble vocalist and Bienen and Weinberg junior Elena Oliveira has one piece of advice for anyone learning salsa. “When in doubt, just move your hips,” she said. NU’s Spanish ...
The Carmel Dance Festival organization presents an immersive Spanish dance and music experience this weekend programmed around Madrid-based dance company HURyCAN’s performance of the duet Te Odiero (I ...
For Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht and Brian Stark of the Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective, flamenco is an underappreciated art form, especially in a community like Champaign-Urbana. The duo met in 2019 at a ...
The world premiere of “Viejos Aires” by guest artist Antonio Najarro, the former artistic director of the National Ballet of Spain, is one of many highlights in Ensemble Español Spanish Dance ...
HAZLE TWP. — At Hazleton Area High School, Carmen Ramos teaches Spanish, but on a recent afternoon she played music, held hands with one of her students and started teaching cumbia, a Colombian dance.
Driving up Interstate 55 on my way to visit Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater last month, my GPS flashed a notification: Tornado warning. Like an on/off switch, torrential storms battered my car ...
Olga Pericet’s “La Leona” and a dance panorama by Ballet Nacional de España look to the past, with an eye to recovery and invention. By Marina Harss For Olga Pericet, flamenco is an invitation: to ...
Maria Benitez and her troupe take us on a whirlwind tour of the styles of Spanish dance. Acclaimed dancer Maria Benitez and her troupe take a live audience on a whirlwind tour of the many styles of ...
From the Malaga Fair to the great theatres of the world, from the Olympic Games to Disney: Antonio Najarro's career is that of a creator who has taken Spanish dance beyond its traditional limits ...