Estela Flamenca
Extremadura, an alternative dimension
Article by Estela Zatania, expoflamenco.com With “Desde mis Entrañas”, Miguel Vargas has taken on the noble task of protecting and preserving the cultural resource that is flamenco from Extremadura, more fragile than ever in these difficult times. Some five decades
Carlota Santana, beyond flamenco
By Estela Zatania We conversed with Carlota about her life-long project which clearly continues to be a source of inspiration and fulfillment for this energetic seventy-something grand dame. While some investigators are fiercely defending a diversity of chauvinist or ethnocentric
Antonio Canales, the quirky genius
Article by Estela Zatania, expoflamenco.com Antonio Canales has recently been awarded Spain’s prestigious Medalla de Oro al Mérito de las Bellas Artes 2020. Canales turns 60 this year, he’s no longer the lithe young dancer I discovered all those years
Virtualmente flamenco
Ya no nos tienen lavando los alimentos con desinfectante, pero todo indica que tendremos mascarillas para rato, y el flamenco virtual es un concepto en proceso de desarrollo buscando su lugar en el replanteamiento de algunas costumbres que pueden haber
Flamenco in petit comité
Article by Estela Zatania for expoflamenco.com As the pandemic forces us to reinvent our lives every day, it may be an opportune moment to turn off the TV and rediscover the pleasure of small get-togethers with friends or relatives trading
La Susi: a discreet personal tribute
By Estela Zatania, journalist for expoflamenco.com // I saw her immense popularity at Caripén, Lola’s tablao in Madrid, later on at the Festival of Mont-de-Marsan, and the Fiesta de la Bulería in Jerez. A top star and social phenomenon. Goodbye,
By Flamenco Journalist, Estela Zatania It’s funny how things happen sometimes. A neighbor lady walking by my front door on the narrow pedestrian street where I live, glimpsed a poster of Fernanda de Utrera on the wall, and remarked “oh…you’re
Interviewed by: Estela Zatania, Flamenco journalist Antonio Moya (Nimes, 1965), guitarist, or “tocaor” as he prefers to be called, is a young old hand whose date of birth situates him at the frontier of the changing of the guard, from
Manuela Vargas at The New York World’s Fair
Flamenco was the main attraction, and people put up with long lines to enter the auditorium where Manuela Vargas (Seville 1941), the beautiful, amazing, gifted Manuela Vargas and her outstanding group performed daily. In 1964, when Spain was still pulling
Edición Especial de la Fiesta de la Bulería…
Tres veladas de mucho arte han demostrado que a veces “menos es más”. Fiesta de la Bulería, Edición Especial 2020 La Fiesta de la Bulería de este año ha sido presentada como “Edición Especial” por motivos de salud pública y