- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (91 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- "This is the second of two programs exploring the African roots of Cuban popular music and dance." This program is "devoted to lucumí, a major religious expression of the Yoruba people of West Africa that is often referred to as santeria." The dances depict the deities known as orichas [also spelled orishas or orixas].
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Note
- Accompanied by house program.
- 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 17, 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
- Güiro (Dances of the orichas): Eléggua -- Oro seco (Oru del igbodu) [percussion only] -- Oggún -- Yemayá -- Changó -- Oyá -- Oshun (Ochún).
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-6654
- OCLC
- NYPY03-F39
- Title
Lázaro Galarraga and the U.S. Afro-Cuban Ambassadors [videorecording] : Lucumí/Santería / 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 17, 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). Danced by Xiomara Rodriguez (Ochún and Yemayá), Rosalia Gamboa (Eléggua and Oyá), Reynaldo Gonzalez (Changó), Juan Torrientes (Oggún).
- 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. Performer
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 4-6654