Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah

Related Content

• The Head and Heart for Dance
  February 14, 2013
• Faith No More
  April 11, 2013
• Think Globally, Dance Locally
  May 23, 2013
• Miami Theater: 2012's Best Productions
  December 20, 2012
• Brothers Beckett at the Arsht: Sibling Rivalry and Revelry
  February 28, 2013

More About

• Rocio Molina
• Pastora Galvan
• Manuel Linan
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media
• Dance

At first, they did it behind closed doors. It was the baile funk of 19th-century Spain, a suggestive dance borne out of the clashing of cultures. Old World Europe thought flamenco's racy, rhythmic handclapping, foot stomping, and hip twirling was just a bawdy contribution from those bastard Gypsies. In reality, it was influenced by everyone from the Moors and the Jews to Catholics with a Visigoth past. Soon enough, flamenco shows were held in cafés cantantes all over Spain. The dance became so commercialized that even poet Federico García Lorca started a campaign to return it to its carnal roots.

And it is indeed the commercialized flamenco that comes to the Arsht Center (1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) this weekend as part of Flamenco Festival Miami. This Saturday, witness the contested and impassioned dance at Gala Flamenca: Todo Cambia with famed dancers Rocio Molina, Pastora Galván, Manuel Liñán, and Belén López.
Sat., Feb. 13, 8 p.m., 2010