- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (72 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- "This is the first of two programs exploring the African roots of Cuban popular music and dance." The rumba seen in this performance is not the ballroom dance, but the pure African-derived dance.
- Alternative Title
- Lázaro Galarraga and the U.S. Afro-Cuban Ambassadors Rumba, congo and Arará.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Note
- Accompanied by house program; subtitle given as Rumba, congo and Arará.
- Program notes by Robert H. Browning and Roberta Singer.
- Recording made possible by the cooperation of the U.S. Afro-Cuban Ambassadors, Symphony Space, the World Music Institute, and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image, Dance Division, The New York Public Library.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped in performance at Symphony Space, New York, N.Y., on November 16, 2002; video production and editing, François Bernadi; camera, François Bernadi, Dino Theomusteclos.
- Funding (note)
- This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
- Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Contents
- Congo (ca. 20 min.). Songs and dances of the Congo or Bantu people. Palo congo -- Yuka -- Makuta.
- Arará (ca. 15 min.). Songs and dances of the Arará people from Dahomey [present-day Benin and Togo].
- Rumba (ca. 37 min.). Yambú (known as rumba de cajón, or box rumba) -- Guaguancó -- Colúmbia.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-6657
- OCLC
- NYPY03-F38
- Title
Lázaro Galarraga and the U.S. Afro-Cuban Ambassadors [videorecording] : Congo, Arará and rumba / presented by the World Music Institute.
- Imprint
c2002.
- Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
- Event
Videotaped in performance at Symphony Space, New York, N.Y., on November 16, 2002; video production and editing, François Bernadi; camera, François Bernadi, Dino Theomusteclos.
- Performer
Performed by the U.S. Afro-Cuban Ambassadors: Lázaro Galarraga, Nengue Hernandez, Angel Luís Figueroa (vocal and percussion); Afimaye Galarraga, Aviola Brown, Abraham Rodriguez (vocal); Tony Rosa, Javier Diaz (percussion); Xiomara Rodriguez, Rosalia Gamboa, Reynaldo Gonzalez, Juan Torrientes (dance).
- Funding
This recording is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Local Subject
Afro-Caribbean dancing.
- Added Author
Galarraga, Lázaro. rf
Rodriguez, Xiomara. Performer
Browning, Robert H.
Singer, Roberta L., 1941-
Bernadi, François. Film editor
U.S. Afro-Cuban Ambassadors (Performing group)
World Music Institute.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Dance Collection.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-6657