An international conference presented in conjunction with the New York Flamenco Festival, 2019. How has flamenco on U.S. stages reflected back upon and contributed to the development of flamenco in Spain? From "La Carmencita," painted by John Singer Sargent and filmed by Thomas Edison in 1890s New York, to Carmen Amaya, a Roma flamenco dancer who at the height of WWII became an international star, to the gender- and genre-bending experiments of Israel Galvan, Nino de Elche, and Rocio Molina, to the feminist reinterpretations of tradition by Rocio Marquez, U.S. audiences and artists have exerted a gravitational pull on flamenco's development. Come join cantaora Rocio Marquez, legendary jazz-flamenco pianist Chano Dominguez, and a distinguished cadre of flamenco scholars, artists, and producers for a series of pre-concert conversations exploring how blackface minstrelsy, the Harlem Renaissance, the anti-war movement, and jazz have all left an imprint on flamenco today. Participants: Ninotchka Bennahum (University of California Santa Barbara) Lynn Brooks (Franklin & Marshall College) Alfonso Cid, flamenco singer Michelle Clayton (Brown University) Alex Conde, flamenco-jazz pianist Sybil Cooksey (New York University) Chano Dominguez, renowned flamenco-jazz pianist K. Meira Goldberg (Fashion Institute of Technology, The Graduate Center) Michelle Heffner Hayes (University of Kansas) Sandie Holguin (University of Oklahoma) Peter Manuel (The Graduate Center) Miguel Marin, Founder and Director of Flamenco Festival Rocio Marquez, flamenco singer Kiko Mora (Universidad de Alicante) Antoni Piza (The Graduate Center) David Roldan Eugenio (Rutgers University) Daniel Valtuena (The Graduate Center) Eva Woods Peiro (Vassar College)
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