Past Programs at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

American Sabor: From the Palladium to the Bronx 

A screening of Carmen (1983)
Directed by Carlos Saura. 103 minutes

Screening with: Flamenco at 5:15 (1983)

Directed by Cynthia Scott. 30 minutes

The Featuring Flamenco series is curated by John Calhoun, Librarian, Billy Rose 

This presentation by Deirdre Towers, developed in conjunction with the exhibit 100 Years of Flamenco in New York, is woven with stills and videos assembled from the New York Public Library Dance Collection archives, from producer/dancers Maria Benitez and Carlota Santana, 

World renowned dance and drum innovator and master teacher Djoniba Mouflet will share his thirty years experience in a lecture/demonstration about African dance & drumming. Along with some of his master drummers and dancers from his dance school The Djoniba Dance 

The finalists from this year’s series compete for the 2013 Debut Artist Award.

A screening of El Amor Brujo (1986)
Directed by Carlos Saura. 98 minutes

Screening with: Sabicas, Maestro de Flamenco (1966-69)
(No director listed). 37 minutes

The Featuring Flamenco series is curated by John Calhoun, Librarian, 

Author Carl Rollyson discusses the American film actor whose diaries and letters reveal an artist struggling with alcoholism and ambivalence about his role as a Hollywood star.

With his dancers Arcell Cabuag, Otis Donovan Herring, Clarice Young, and Annique Roberts, Ronald K. Brown will talk about their trips to Africa and show video clips.

After celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2010 at a gala performance at New York’s Plaza Hotel, 

Tune in Tuesday April 2nd at 6:00pm for a livestream of this event.

Broadsides and Banjos: The Folk Music Revival

Writer and musician Elijah Wald, co-author of Dave Van Ronk: The Mayor of MacDougal Street, a memoir which serves as the