By Marina Harss For Olga Pericet, flamenco ... wears a man’s suit and dances a farruca, a traditionally male dance. Later, she performs a dance with castanets, to 19th-century guitar music.

As I walk up the steep cobbled streets, another sound filters in — the plucking of a classical guitar ... crowds clapping along to flamenco, and children playing in the street.

The young Peña spent a few years doing clerical jobs, playing guitar ... the wrong man. “It was a sizeable amount of money,” shrugs Peña, “but I couldn’t do it. I love flamenco too ...