Leilah broukhim biography of mahatma
Leilah broukhim biography of mahatma
Meet the flamenco dancer from New York who used Spains ...!
IT’S no small feat for a foreigner to make it big in Spain’s competitive world of flamenco.
But that is exactly what Leilah Broukhim, a New Yorker with Sephardic Persian heritage, achieved when she inaugurated Madrid’s Centro Cultural Flamenco in February 2019 with a show inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca.
It was the culmination of two-decades mastering the art of flamenco, forging a career as a dancer on the tablao circuit before launching her own projects.
But it all ground to a halt as the pandemic took hold and the nation went into one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe.
For Leilah though, hanging up the Castañuelas meant an opportunity to spend more time on another of her passions: music.
“It was tough to suddenly stop flamenco, especially as the Madrid show was proving a success,” she told the Olive Press.
“But in fact, the enforced pause brought an opportunity to think about the other things I wanted to do.”
She spent lockdown in a remote casa on the island of I