Teachable Moments: Criss-Crossing the Globe: Flamenco Film and Performance

Haft Theater Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, United States

This event, sponsored by the FIT Diversity Council, features a screening of the documentary Triana, Pura y Pura by Ricardo Pachón, which chronicles the expulsion of Roma, who were flamenco innovators, from Triana, Spain, in the '50s. The event also features flamenco performances by Basilio Georges, Aurora Reyes, and Anna de la Paz. FIT adjunct instructor, flamenco […]

International Conference: The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots

Haft Theater Marvin Feldman Center, New York City, NY, United States

October 15 and 16 The Foundation for Iberian Music at The Barry S. Brooks Center for Music Research and Documentation at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Department of Film, Media, and Performing Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology are hosting a two-day international conference and flamenco performance festival in New York, October 15 […]

International Conference: The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots

Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States

October 15 and 16 The Foundation for Iberian Music at The Barry S. Brooks Center for Music Research and Documentation at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Department of Film, Media, and Performing Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology are hosting a two-day international conference and flamenco performance festival in New York, October 15 […]

FIT Authors Talks: Meira Goldberg on Sonidos Negros

Professor K. Meira Goldberg discusses her book Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco. How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor […]