For Alyssa Teijeiro-Ficht and Brian Stark of the Illinois Flamenco-Jazz Collective, flamenco is an underappreciated art form, especially in a community like Champaign-Urbana. The duo met in 2019 at a ...

HAZLE TWP. — At Hazleton Area High School, Carmen Ramos teaches Spanish, but on a recent afternoon she played music, held hands with one of her students and started teaching cumbia, a Colombian dance.