Spanish dancer Carmen Dauset "Carmencita" arrived in New York in 1889 and quickly became a sensation in New York society. She was painted by both William Merritt Chase and John Singer Sargeant, and in 1894, she became the first woman and the first dancer to be filmed by Thomas Edison. By the early decades of the 20th century great Spanish and flamenco dancers were performing in the U.S., and some, such as the Cansinos and Aurora Arriaza, settled in the U.S. as teachers and performers.

Time & Location

Nov 15, 2024, 10:00 PM – Nov 16, 2024, 12:30 AM

Terraza 7, 40-19 Gleane Street, Elmhurst NY 11373

About the event

Nueva York Flamenco City & La Meira

Presented by Terraza 7

Date: Friday, November 15th, 2024

Time: 10:00 pm.

Admission: $20 (Mezzanine Level)

Featuring:

La Meira: Bailaora

Ricardo Sanchez: Guitarist

Alfonso Cid: Cantaor, Flutist, and Musical Direction

The popular FLAMENCO NIGHTS @ GALERIA concert series, presented by TEATRO Si, returns on Friday, February 9, 2024 at 7:30pm at the intimate Galeria The Art Venue, located at 111 Quimby Street in downtown Westfield, NJ.

Event Details:

New Flamencologías Research Group welcomes you to a talk by K. Meira Goldberg.

Tracing Duende: On Digging Our Embodied History

La Meira at Karvouna Mezze, February 24th!

The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots - book talk

Conversation with authors Karen Silen, Ryan Rockmore, Constance Valis Hill, Lynn Brooks, and Guillermo Castro, with editor K. Meira Goldberg.

This collection of essays poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. How can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance? How can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora?

The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco's Tangled Roots - book talk

Conversation with authors Karen Silen, Ryan Rockmore, Constance Valis Hill, Lynn Brooks, and Guillermo Castro, with editor K. Meira Goldberg.

This collection of essays poses a series of questions revolving around nonsense, cacophony, queerness, race, and the dancing body. How can flamenco, as a diasporic complex of performance and communities of practice frictionally and critically bound to the complexities of Spanish history, illuminate theories of race and identity in performance? How can we posit, and argue for, genealogical relationships within and between genres across the vast expanses of the African—and Roma—diaspora?

The Hemispheric Institute is proud to announce the publication of the Brenda Dixon-Gottschild Collection in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL). This new archive preserves and makes accessible the legacy of this groundbreaking dancer, scholar, and choreographer. The archive is accompanied by a collection of the work of Dr. Dixon-Gottschild's creative partner and husband, Hellmut Gottschild.

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 became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized Gitano, paradoxically came to represent Spain itself.