Saturday, May 16, 2009

Flamenco dancer teaches Spanish culture one step at a time - SuburbanJournals

Flamenco dancer teaches Spanish culture one step at a time - SuburbanJournals

Flamenco dancer teaches Spanish culture one step at a time
SuburbanJournals
Flamenco originated in southern Spain. It was brought to the region by people from India. The gypsies, who were forced to leave India, traveled across many countries before arriving nearly 600 years later in Spain. Flamenco dance is a fusion of Jewish, ...
The flamenco king Paco Peña gets Abu Dhabi into the rhythm The National
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Senior Expo draws a crowd with food, fashion, flamenco - The Herald-Times (subscription)

Senior Expo draws a crowd with food, fashion, flamenco - The Herald-Times (subscription)

Senior Expo draws a crowd with food, fashion, flamenco
The Herald-Times (subscription), IN
The convention center was chock full of exhibitor booths, from the Monroe County History Center to the Social Security Administration. Seniors got free hearing, eyesight and other health care screenings. Rose Ellis of Ellettsville had her blood glucose ...

Flamenco dancer teaches Spanish culture one step at a time - SuburbanJournals

Flamenco dancer teaches Spanish culture one step at a time - SuburbanJournals

Flamenco dancer teaches Spanish culture one step at a time
SuburbanJournals
Flamenco originated in southern Spain. It was brought to the region by people from India. The gypsies, who were forced to leave India, traveled across many countries before arriving nearly 600 years later in Spain. Flamenco dance is a fusion of Jewish, ...
The flamenco king Paco Peña gets Abu Dhabi into the rhythm The National
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An Orthodox Woman Brings Dance to the Community - Forward

An Orthodox Woman Brings Dance to the Community - Forward

An Orthodox Woman Brings Dance to the Community
Forward, NY
Hip hop is just one of the several dance classes Nahari offers to children and adults. Others include ballet, jazz and flamenco. But the introduction of the urban dance form presented a challenge to the studio's motto — “Providing quality dance ...

Shall We Dance? A Conversation with Legendary Flamenco Dancer ... - Latina

Shall We Dance? A Conversation with Legendary Flamenco Dancer ... - Latina

Latina
Shall We Dance? A Conversation with Legendary Flamenco Dancer ...
Latina, NY
Look at Paco de Lucia—he didn't grow up with it and look at the legacy he's created in terms of the flamenco guitar. You just have to have a great love and respect for it and be able to feel it. Joaquin's show is tonight, May 14, at the Beacon Theater ...

Print, pattern, colour - The National

Print, pattern, colour - The National

Print, pattern, colour
The National, United Arab Emirates
In the collection for H&M it is seen in a stylised print on tops and wrap dresses, as a shoulder -embellishment on the cardigans and bejewelled in the -accessories.” It's not all about the instant identifiability though: the floor-length flamenco gown ...

Print, pattern, colour - The National

Print, pattern, colour - The National

Print, pattern, colour
The National, United Arab Emirates
In the collection for H&M it is seen in a stylised print on tops and wrap dresses, as a shoulder -embellishment on the cardigans and bejewelled in the -accessories.” It's not all about the instant identifiability though: the floor-length flamenco gown ...

The Limits of Control - PW-Philadelphia Weekly

The Limits of Control - PW-Philadelphia Weekly

The Limits of Control
PW-Philadelphia Weekly, PA
Some of these same phrases are later sung by a flamenco dancer for no discernible reason. The Lone Man encounters all sorts of cool character actors from the international festival circuit, but whether he's listening to Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, ...

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Dance, music in Granada - BusinessWorld Online

Dance, music in Granada - BusinessWorld Online

Dance, music in Granada
BusinessWorld Online, Philippines
His daughter, Belen Maya, will present an exceptional group of flamenco dancers using her father's choreography. There will be performances focusing on the music played at the time the Moors were expelled from Spain. On July 11, the Capella de ...

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked - UNM Daily Lobo

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked - UNM Daily Lobo

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked
UNM Daily Lobo, NM
Marisol Encinias, who teaches flamenco at UNM, said the festival flies in between 50 to 70 artists from Spain each year. Encinias' mother, Eva, started the festival 22 years ago, and her grandmother taught flamenco in Albuquerque long before that. ...

Dance, music in Granada - BusinessWorld Online

Dance, music in Granada - BusinessWorld Online

Dance, music in Granada
BusinessWorld Online, Philippines
His daughter, Belen Maya, will present an exceptional group of flamenco dancers using her father's choreography. There will be performances focusing on the music played at the time the Moors were expelled from Spain. On July 11, the Capella de ...

Jordi Savall, Brighton Festival - review - Telegraph.co.uk

Jordi Savall, Brighton Festival - review - Telegraph.co.uk

Jordi Savall, Brighton Festival - review
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Rolf Lislevand played some 17th century guitar music from Aragon that had a sharp tang of flamenco, and violinist David Plantier gave Lully's 'Turkish Ceremony' a flamboyantly martial ring. Like all worthwhile artistic events this one went beyond its ...

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked (University of New Mexico Daily Lobo)

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked (University of New Mexico Daily Lobo)
Montserrat Andreys moved from Chicago to study flamenco at UNM, where the dance program has gained notoriety through the annual Festival Flamenco Internacional de Albuquerque. "I found a Web site about the festival, and the info in the festival led me to find the flamenco program at UNM," Andreys said.

What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham - TIME

What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham - TIME

What Swine Flu? Spain Celebrates Cured Ham
TIME
They ate outdoors beneath an almost full moon, as candles flickered on tables draped with heavy cloths, flamenco guitars thrummed in the background, and liveried waiters served plates of seared tuna and beef tenderloin. But for all that elegance, ...

Monday, May 11, 2009

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked (University of New Mexico Daily Lobo)

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked (University of New Mexico Daily Lobo)
Montserrat Andreys moved from Chicago to study flamenco at UNM, where the dance program has gained notoriety through the annual Festival Flamenco Internacional de Albuquerque. "I found a Web site about the festival, and the info in the festival led me to find the flamenco program at UNM," Andreys said.

Fashion: The long and short of it - Independent

Fashion: The long and short of it - Independent

Fashion: The long and short of it
Independent, UK
Sometime Marc Jacobs muse Victoria Beckham sported a dotty, one-shouldered number at the Met Ball, while Jessica Biel wore a bespoke red-satin gown from William Rast – for whom her boyfriend Justin Timberlake designs – with a flamenco-inspired swirled ...

Green Day Has a Brilliant Breakdown: Green Day - California Chronicle

Green Day Has a Brilliant Breakdown: Green Day - California Chronicle

Green Day Has a Brilliant Breakdown: Green Day
California Chronicle, CA
Peacemaker boasts flourishes of surf-rock flamenco, and The Static Age21 Guns has the universal appeal, lyrically and musically, of a huge crossover hit. (Expect to hear it blowing up office radios if released as a single.) But it's almost unfair to ...

La Junta reúne a expertos en la vida y la obra de Manolo Caracol ... - Andalucía24horas

La Junta reúne a expertos en la vida y la obra de Manolo Caracol ... - Andalucía24horas

Hoymujer
La Junta reúne a expertos en la vida y la obra de Manolo Caracol ...
Andalucía24horas, Spain
Después sería un cantaor de leyenda, abriría el flamenco a nuevos públicos, paseó su arte por escenarios de todo el mundo y, como afirman los organizadores del congreso, se convirtió en "figura clave para entender la evolución y la dimensión del ...
"Intento coger los cantes de los maestros y no imitar a nadie" El Día de Córdoba
Cultura edita una libro-disco que contiene inéditos y una ... ADN.es
La información sin manipulación Xornal Galicia
El Correo de Andalucía
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Interview: Fischerspooner - Decider DC

Interview: Fischerspooner - Decider DC

Decider DC
Interview: Fischerspooner
Decider DC, DC
... Kabuki theater, flamenco—into an exquisite corpse. Unfortunately, the economy collapsed and nobody's interested in funding a hybrid experimental pop show about outer space. We chose the core ideas for this tour. I like the title though. ...

Getting into the spirit of the dance - The Surrey Herald

Getting into the spirit of the dance - The Surrey Herald

Getting into the spirit of the dance
The Surrey Herald, UK
A near-capacity crowd – I hadn't seen so many people in the Theatre Royal for a very long time – was treated to a blisteringly-fast, visually-stunning extravaganza inspired by many of the world's dance styles, from flamenco to hoe down and beyond. ...

Green Day Has a Brilliant Breakdown: Green Day - California Chronicle

Green Day Has a Brilliant Breakdown: Green Day - California Chronicle

Green Day Has a Brilliant Breakdown: Green Day
California Chronicle, CA
... familiar guitars, and the circus tinkling of ¿Viva La Gloria? (Little Girl) quickly gives way to punk-pop power. Restless Heart Syndrome also sheds its ballad skin for a more aggressive ending. Peacemaker boasts flourishes of surf-rock flamenco, ...

Fashion: The long and short of it - Independent

Fashion: The long and short of it - Independent

Fashion: The long and short of it
Independent, UK
Sometime Marc Jacobs muse Victoria Beckham sported a dotty, one-shouldered number at the Met Ball, while Jessica Biel wore a bespoke red-satin gown from William Rast – for whom her boyfriend Justin Timberlake designs – with a flamenco-inspired swirled ...

Exhibition melts dance, design and painting in the same pot - Hürriyet

Exhibition melts dance, design and painting in the same pot - Hürriyet

Hürriyet
Exhibition melts dance, design and painting in the same pot
Hürriyet, Turkey
ANKARA - In a new exhibition opened over the weekend in Ankara titled "Alchemy of Dance," designer and painter Aslı Kutluay depicts the gracious figures of flamenco dancers on her canvas. "I find body movements of dancers during their performance very ...

Friday, May 8, 2009

Ojos de Brujo - Aocana - Socialistworker.co.uk

Ojos de Brujo - Aocana - Socialistworker.co.uk

Ojos de Brujo - Aocana
Socialistworker.co.uk, UK
Based in Barcelona, Ojos de Brujo celebrate the freedom and sensuality of flamenco and the rumba. They mix these with a contagious rhythm and sonic experimentation. They describe their style as “jipjop flamenkillo” – hip-hop with a little flamenco. ...

El bailaorIsrael Galván baila 'Solo' - Diario de Sevilla

El bailaorIsrael Galván baila 'Solo' - Diario de Sevilla

El bailaorIsrael Galván baila 'Solo'
Diario de Sevilla, Spain
... Israel Galván hace del flamenco un estilo diferente y propio pero sin olvidar sus verdaderas raíces. Hijo de los bailaores sevillanos José Galván y Eugenia de Los Reyes, desde los cinco años vive de manera natural los ambientes de tablaos, ...

Music keeps Coolum dancing - Sunshine Coast Daily

Music keeps Coolum dancing - Sunshine Coast Daily

Music keeps Coolum dancing
Sunshine Coast Daily, Australia
Last weekend, top Aussie bands Eskimo Joe, Faker, The Potbelleez and Blue King Brown performed at Ripe Noosa, and tonight (Friday), Tijuana Cartel brings its unique mix of flamenco guitar and beats to the Coolum Civic Centre. ...

Entertainment briefs - Salina Journal

Entertainment briefs - Salina Journal

Entertainment briefs
Salina Journal, KS
A native of Claflin, Oberle is accomplished in differing musical styles ranging from blues, traditional flamenco, rock, jazz and country, in addition to Brazilian and classical guitar. Oberle has trained hundreds of guitarists who play at all levels. ...

El cantaor de los muchos trajes - El País (España)

El cantaor de los muchos trajes - El País (España)

El País (España)
El cantaor de los muchos trajes
El País (España), Spain
Después, mientras seguía llenando de flamenco los escenarios, puso voz y música junto a Joan Albert Amargós y Enric Palomar a los Poemas del exilio de Rafael Alberti (2003) y, de nuevo junto a Amargós, a poetas catalanes en Desglaç (2005). ...

The Limits of Control - Decider DC

The Limits of Control - Decider DC

Decider DC
The Limits of Control
Decider DC, DC
The film manages a handful of transcendent moments, like a startlingly dramatic flamenco dance and a vibrant scan of the countryside through a train window, courtesy of the great cinematographer Christopher Doyle. But too much of The Limits Of Control ...
Wandering Spain with the lone wolf of Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control SF Weekly
MOVIE REVIEW ; Jarmusch's `Limits' Seen in Evocative New Film California Chronicle
The Silent Treatment: Isaach de Bankole on 'Limits of Control' Express from The Washington Post
Pegasus News - The Quietus
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Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked - UNM Daily Lobo

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked - UNM Daily Lobo

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked
UNM Daily Lobo, NM
Montserrat Andreys moved from Chicago to study flamenco at UNM, where the dance program has gained notoriety through the annual Festival Flamenco Internacional de Albuquerque. "I found a Web site about the festival, and the info in the festival led me ...
Dancers put feet down for festival UNM Daily Lobo
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'Fados' makes music cinematic | 3 stars - Kansas City Star

'Fados' makes music cinematic | 3 stars - Kansas City Star

'Fados' makes music cinematic | 3 stars
Kansas City Star, MO
Fado, the Portuguese musical style, is not as overtly sexual as its Spanish cousin flamenco, but it's extremely sensual. It shows a flair for the poetic turn of phrase and vocals overflowing with yearning. At age 76, Spanish director Carlos Saura, ...

The Flag Sisters are Flyin' High - Australian Stage Online

The Flag Sisters are Flyin' High - Australian Stage Online

The Flag Sisters are Flyin' High
Australian Stage Online, Australia
And in an outrageous sequence of trio, duo and solo turns, they transform the 'cabin' into their private fantasy world, peopled by Marilyns, Jessica Rabbits, strippers, flamenco dancers and Neapolitan brides. Flyin' High is an ozone-guzzling show, ...

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked (University of New Mexico Daily Lobo)

Flamenco students reflect on why they flocked (University of New Mexico Daily Lobo)
Montserrat Andreys moved from Chicago to study flamenco at UNM, where the dance program has gained notoriety through the annual Festival Flamenco Internacional de Albuquerque. "I found a Web site about the festival, and the info in the festival led me to find the flamenco program at UNM," Andreys said.