Santa Fe Opera Trains Rising Stars
IN LATE SUMMER at the Santa Fe Opera, playful light dances on flowers that are not far from their final throes. Waving grasses shimmer greenish gold, lifting and settling in a mild breeze. Underneath…
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Tag: Performing Arts
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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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Mom. Mother’s Day at the Zoo See adorable animals at the Abq BioPark Zoo and learn how they raise their young during a special Mother’s Day celebration that includes live music at five…
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Fiesta Melodrama Skewers Santa Fe
AS THE SAYING GOES, laughter is the best medicine. If that’s the case, the Santa Fe Playhouse has a tried-and-true remedy in its Fiesta Melodrama, one of six productions celebrating the theater’s…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Have a fair time. Stars, Stripes, and Summer Nights is the theme of this year’s Rodeo Parade at the Los Alamos County Fair. It winds down Central Avenue at 10 a.m. on Saturday. “This year we have…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Stop and smell the flowers. The lilacs in Taos are in full bloom—and oh, is the fragrance heavenly. Legend has it that many of the plants are descendants of ones imported from France in 1852 by…
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Playwright Examines Social Status
Above: Kristin Goodman is author of #UnderTheInfluence and director of the film The Maid. Photograph by Bahareh Ritter. KRISTIN GOODMAN WAS BRUSHING HER TEETH one night when an idea popped into her…
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Datebook: November 2021
Above: Fredheads unite this fall at the12th annual Fred Harvey History Weekend. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. FANS OF HOSPITALITY entrepreneur Fred Harvey (1835–1901) gather November 12–15…
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Musician Eliza Gilkyson is Back
Folk singer Eliza Gilkyson has long been rooted among the high mesas of northern New Mexico . Photograph by Todd Wolfson. TO HEAR HER TELL IT, Eliza Gilkyson has always been on her way back. Although…
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