That is abundantly clear from the off, even to a first-time viewer. As soon as a flamenco dancer takes the stage, stamps her solidly-heeled shoe against the boards, flings her arms skyward ...

In a Buenos Aires theatre last summer, white-haired Maestro Arturo Toscanini embraced a swart, black-haired, sloe-eyed dancer and cried ... For she is a flamenco (gypsy), and the best in ...