Castanets, as used by Loreta's student Sophia Akhund, of Huntington, play an important role in the art of flamenco. Credit: Elizabeth Sagarin "It's life-changing," said Deborah Bernardino, a ...

Other casetas hire a cantaor (flamenco singer). Buy some castanets at the local market and join in at the casetas de distrito, tents where anyone can take the stage — enthusiasm is more ...

Aug. 23—"La Emi" returns to Heritage Hotels & Resorts with a new flamenco show on three stages in northern and southern New Mexico. Emmy Grimm, who goes by "La Emi," is a renowned flamenco ...

I remember my grandmother teaching me the steps of flamenco, putting the castanets in my hand and I started dancing in front of friends of the family at a party." ...

In residence at Northeastern Illinois University for the past 47 years, Ensemble Español Dance Theater is Chicago's longest running Spanish dance company, with 28 members strong.

Stuart Macbeth clicks his castanets and catches flamenco fever with dancer Amarita Vargas I picture it so clearly. Packs of pale Brits, jammed into a Boeing and jetting off to sunny Spain.

Ensemble Español has been dazzling audiences with its flamenco shows on some of the biggest stages in Chicago and around the world.