La Petenera, the suffering symbol of Spain's 15th-century Jewish community, is the heroine of "The Sephardic Connection," performed by the Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre of Old Bridge. The Daughters ...

In the night of the garden, six gypsy girls dressed in white are dancing. In the night of the garden, crowned with paper roses and twisted roots. In the night of the garden, their teeth of pearl ...

Petenera, a seductress of Spanish folk legend dating back to the 15th century, is an outcast in her community. Isolated, lonely and proud, she befriends a young child who also lost her mother at an ...