Research Catalog

Title

Dance and immigration [videorecording] : the mambo, a New York story

Publication

March 25, 1993.

Details

Additional Authors

• Adams, Dottie.
• Ensley, Ernest.
• López, René.
• Medina V., Henry.
• Santos, Ray.
• Marx, Robert
• Rudolph, Ellen B.
• Speaking out (1993 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)

Description

• 2 streaming video files (78 min. total) : sd., col with b&w sequences.; 3/4 in.
• 2 videocassettes (U-matic, NTSC) (77 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ;

Summary

Discussion of the mambo craze that flourished in New York from the late 1940s to the 1960s, with emphasis on activities at the Palladium Ballroom at Broadway and 53rd Street. The mambo's origins as a musical form in Cuba are described, as is its popularization by the orchestra leaders Machito, Tito Puente, and Tito Rodríguez. The panelists also recall Killer Joe Piro's mambo lessons and exhibitions, and the mambo's appeal to dancers of different ethnic groups and classes. They also discuss its relation to present-day salsa.

Subjects

• Social dancing > 20th century
• Television > Dance and immigration
• Salsa (Music)
• Music > Latin America
• Music > Cuba
• Latin dancing
• Salsa (Dance)
• Mambo (Dance)
• Palladium (Dance hall)
• Piro, Killer Joe
• Rodríguez, Tito, 1923-1973
• Puente, Tito, 1923-2000
• Machito

Genre/Form

Latin dancing.

Note

• Videotaped for the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive of the New York Public Library at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on March 25, 1993. Presented as part of Speaking out: the performing arts forum. Series producer: Ellen B. Rudolph.
• Moderator: René López. Panelists: Dottie Adams, Ernest Ensley, Henry Medina, and Ray Santos.

Access (note)

• Patrons can access streaming video files online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Contents

CONTENTS: 1 (approx. 60 min.): Welcome by Robert Marx, executive director of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. -- Dance demonstration by Adams and Ensley. -- Overview of the mambo by López. -- Film and video excerpts, with commentary by Medina. -- A musician's observations of the mambo at the Palladium, by Santos. -- Reminiscences of dancing at the Palladium, by Adams and Ensley. -- 2 (approx. 17 min.): Responses to questions from the audience. -- Dance demonstration by Adams and Ensley.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 8766

OCLC

NYPY946072927-F

Title

Dance and immigration [videorecording] : the mambo, a New York story

Imprint

March 25, 1993.

Playing Time

010006 001759

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video files online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-4180.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Television. Dance and immigration.

Social dancing -- 20th century.

Added Author

Adams, Dottie. cmm, dancer.

Ensley, Ernest. cmm, dancer.

López, René. Moderator. Commentator

Medina V., Henry. Commentator

Santos, Ray. Commentator

Marx, Robert, speaker.

Rudolph, Ellen B., producer.

Speaking out (1993 : New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 8766