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Latin Londoner #69: Erika Vibez - salsa lecturer, creative producer and community leader
British-Colombian Erika Vibez is a dance teacher, creative producer and community leader. In 2026 she became one of the first Salsa lecturers in the UK, introducing Salsa Caleña (Cali style) into the formal dance curriculum. She…
‘Los Conductos’ (2020) Directed by Camilo Restrepo
Colombian experimental filmmaker, writer and director Camilo Restrepo, known for 5 award-winning short films, including ‘La Bouche 2015’, has won the Berlinale’s GWFF Best First Feature Award with his ópera prima ‘Los Conductos…
Evita at The Dominion Theatre
After its successful UK tour, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's weirdly popular journey into the heart of Argentine history returns to the West End. With 55 new performances, the epic bio-musical that dissects the character…
LATIN HOTLIST #15 - Christmas 2019
Looking for Christmas Stocking fillers? Here our selection of essential goodies to do the good old English sock by the fire with a twist, from children's books in spanish to aged Mexican rum for Papa Noel himself
Flamenco's Poetry in Motion?
Inspired by the purist Flamenco that he learnt from his teachers, Rafael Amargo, Spain’s most eclectic dancer and choreographer, was influenced by US contemporary dance schools such as the Martha Graham, while living in New York…
Juana in a Million
A mesmerising one-woman Latina show at The Southwark Playhouse until 15th June
Paradise City by Joe Thomas (Arcadia Books)
American style 'noir' set in South America's biggest megatropolis - a lonely cop's battle with corruption, despair, and his own demons makes for an enthralling Sao Paulo thriller.
Treating Trauma with Art
Amy Draper is a bold, young theatre director whose innovative production 'These Trees are made of Blood' – a musical cabaret about the estimated 30,000 people murdered by Argentina’s dictatorship (1976-1983) who then…
MINEFIELD @ The Jerwood Theatre
This challenging work by Argentine playwright Lola Arias, based on six Falklands/ Malvinas war veterans, and developed entirely by working with the men, their diaries and experiences, had resounding success with its debut last…
Salon de Belleza (Beauty Salon) 2026 by Mexican director Nathalia Acevedo
Selected for the ‘Giornate degli Autori’ at the 2026 Venice Film Festival, Nathalia Acevedo’s unusual debut feature was adapted from the strange and meditative novella of the same name by Mario Bellatin, about death and dying on…
Venezuela: Trochas de la Información
Produced by Circuito Gran Cine, a collective of film makers based in Venezuela, this film is one of a series about the difficulties Venezuelans have faced during the Covid-19 pandemic, ranging from water shortages to the lack of…
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Embracing Another World
It’s been a long day of interviews for Ciro Guerra. As director of Embrace of the Serpent, the first Colombian film to be nominated for an Oscar, the film man of the moment is in demand in London, where the film launches this…
Awards Categories for The LUKAS 2019
The Latin UK Awards is Europe’s only awards ceremony to celebrate Latino culture in all its diversity and manifestations: music, dance, theatre, film, arts, and sport. The public is invited to nominate candidates for The LUKAS…
Rosebush Pruning (2026) by Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz
A dark, satirical-comedy melodrama, with a gentle Greek connection that is very suitable as it has echoes of Greek tragedy as siblings and parents destroy each other as they live a life of indolence and vanity in a gilded cage
The Legend Becomes The Teacher
Antonio Canales is considered one of the greatest Spanish Flamenco Dancers of all time. Once one of the world's biggest Flamenco celebrities, he now dedicates his time to choreography and teaching. Having given a week of…
Un-Dazzling the Gold
As The British Museum awaits over 200 hundred spectacular pre-Columbian gold objects from Bogotá’s Museo de Oro to exhibit in its ‘Beyond El Dorado’ exhibition, Colombians in London might be thinking of protesting rather than…
Sevilla's Firebrand
Maestra Carmen Iniesta is one of Sevilla's finest flamenco dancers and most sought-after teachers. Latinolife talks to her about flamenco's past, future, and how to experience the 'present' when dancing.
Life Through Dance: A Cuban Journey
When Yanet Fuentes arrived in the UK at just eighteen years old to star in the theatre sensation Lady Salsa, her beauty, elegance and stunning dance style caused a mini-earthquake in the salsa scene. Since then, the Cuban dancer…
Latin Hotlist #1 - October 2016
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Migration and redemption in Latin America
In his film X500 (2016) Colombian-Canadian director Juan Andrés Arango García describes the challenges faced by three immigrants in three countries as they struggle to fit into their new environments.
LOCKDOWN HOTLIST - May 2020
Even in Lockdown you can still Think Latin, Eat Latin, Feel Latin...here's our choice of Latin must-haves and must-eats
Stockholm (dir. Omar Al Abdul Razzak 2012)
A superbly crafted film exploring the politics of desire and attraction
Tango Tracks for Dancers
Selected by Tango Performers Maria and Guiillermo, here are our Top Ten Tango tracks.
It Takes Two Worlds to Tango
Representatives of 25 countries converge on the River Plate for the Third World Tango Summit.
MONOS (2019) DIR Alejandro Landes
In action thriller MONOS,which has just won the 'Best Film' Award at the 2019, 63rd BFI London Film Festival, Director Alejandro Landes takes us on a dramatic & vertiginous ride that rises to giddy heights, with no…
Fire in the Argentine Belly
German Cornejo, the lead dancer, and choreographer of 'Tango Fire’ and 'Immortal Tango' talks to Latinolife about his life in tango and tango's future.
Latin Londoner #71: Monica Lopera - Actress and Producer.
Originally from Medellin, Colombia, Monica is an award-winning actress who has worked across film, television and theatre in both Spanish and English, taking leading roles in The Hijacking of Flight 601 (Netflix), Killing Eve (…
origo: an earth giant at the Barbican
An earth giant now stands in the Sculpture Court. Origo, conceived by Colombian artist Delcy Morelos, is an oval structure that extends 24 metres following the crescent shape of the building that surrounds it. The installation…
Southern Exile
As the Tate Modern hosts the first exhibition of Mira Schendel's work in a decade, we take a look at this extraordinary Swiss born artist who made Brazil her home, escaping a hostile Europe to finding artistic freedom and…
The Club Dir. Pablo Larrain (2016)
In The Club everything is distressing. In the home for ‘repentance’ we find a chaplain who collaborated with the dictatorship, a priest accused of child abuse, another involved in illegal adoptions and a senile one who cannot…
Transformed by Scent
Amaranta Wright enters the world of Ramón Monegal, the legendary Spanish perfumer now celebrating 100 years of a family in fragrance, and emerges transformed.
Christmas Wish List 2016
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The Fire Within
One of the most successful comedy actors of recent years, Nick Frost plays a depressed office worker in his latest film, who is forced to discover and unleash his ‘Cuban fury’ in order to overcome a bullying boss and …yes,…
The Restless Spirit
Sevillian bailadora Rafaela Carrasco is one of the most outstanding representatives of avant-garde flamenco dancing. After being a member of the Andalusian based Mario Maya Company and completing her training in Madrid as a…
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