Camila Falquez lenses Seville's fierce Flamenco dancers Camila Falquez lenses Seville's fierce Flamenco dancers

This story originally appeared in our spring 2019 issue.

For SLEEK 61, Spanish photographer and filmmaker Camila Falquez captured the fierce flamenco dancers of Seville in the south of Spain. Teaming up with SLEEK’s fashion editor, Lorena Maza, they documented well-known performers including Ana Morales, Ursula Lopez and Isabel Bayon, and bailaoras from the famous flamenco dance school, Cristina Heeren Foundation, in the Andalusian city. Falquez’s story juxtaposes the dramatic dancers with images of ornate church interiors and sorrowful iconography of the Virgin Mary, comparing the pain and emotion of the Madonna with the passion and feeling of the dancers. Falquez, who has photographed for Teen Vogue, Vogue Spain and Nike, wanted to emphasise the close relationship between the flamenco and the Virgin.

Bailaoras of the Cristina Heeren Foundation, practicing under the direction of La Gran Maestra Milagros Mengibar.

Theatre of the Flamenco School Fundacion Cristina Herren De Arte Flamenco.

Fotografie: Camila Falquez
Styling: Lorena Maza