Remembering María Benítez
LEGENDARY DANCER María Benítez (1942–2024) took flamenco to new heights during her career as a dancer and educator, cementing Santa Fe as a flamenco destination and creating a legacy that lives on in…
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Albuquerque’s Flamenco Legacy Dances On
IF THE SUNLIT FLOORS OF AN OLD Territorial-Style adobe could talk, they would speak of a flamenco legacy born in the North Valley home. Three generations of Encinias family members danced here…
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La Emi Shares Her Passion for Dance
EMMY GRIMM’S FIRST MEMORY IS OF FLAMENCO—watching legendary dancer María Benítez onstage in Santa Fe. Her father, David Grimm, was Benítez’s box office manager; Emmy had been coming to Benítez…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Get to Gallup. Indigenous people from around the world gather in Gallup this Thursday through August 14 for the 100th anniversary of the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial. A powwow, juried art show…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Above: Weaver Christine Hernandez will be among the 50 vendors at this year's Winter Market hosted by Vital Spaces. Photograph courtesy of Vital Spaces. 1 Finish your Santa duties. Sip hot chocolate…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Above: Expo New Mexico hosts the Winter Wonderland Drive Thru to benefit the Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation and the Ronald McDonald House charities of New Mexico. Photograph courtesy of Winter…
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The Turning Pointe
Performers in the National Dance Institute New Mexico film Vastness include Safiya Zavala-Sweet, 17, at White Sands National Park. Photograph by Steven Melendez. THE IMAGE FEELS LIKE A DREAMSCAPE…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend: August 7-9
Above: The shelves of Collected Works Bookstore are filled with local authors and bestsellers alike. Photograph by Carrie McCarthy. Support a local bookstore. For many of us, books have helped get us…
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The Passion of the Dance
Above: María Benitez helped put New Mexico on the map for flamenco. Photograph by Ruven Afanador. BORN IN MINNESOTA to a mother with mixed Native heritage and a father from Puerto Rico, the future…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
SO MUCH HAS CHANGED—how we work, how we learn, what we eat, what we do for fun (at least virtual happy hours are cheap!). This week, with Passover and Holy Week, many of us have even had to adapt our…
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