Ballet Hispánico's Dandara Veiga in "Tiburones," a politically charged work choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. The New York-based company is coming to Winspear Opera House this week as part of ...
While the Mambo Room Cultural Dance & Event Center is closing its doors at the end of the month, the heart and soul of the small business cannot be stopped. Kianda Fiske, owner of the studio on 21st ...
If the title of Smuin Ballet’s spring season, “Untamed,” conjures up images of skimpily clad women undulating to conga drums, this post-World War II motif is not entirely off the mark. When the ...
Pacific Mambo Dance is an infectious, get-off-your- feet group dance anthem that’s destined to become a new club classic and will be available digitally worldwide on March 3rd, 2015.
FEET ON EXHIBITION: The original ‘Mambo King,’ Pedro Aguilar, also known as Cuban Pete, danced with partner Barbara Craddock as artist Erich Padilla painted their moves on canvas at the Byron-Carlyle ...
From Cuba to the Catskills, the mid-20th century saw the rise of an improbable partnership between American Jews and the mambo. And with its popularity, a Yiddish-inspired term entered the lexicon to ...
Tony Cox talks to Henry Chalfant, the producer of the new documentary From Mambo to Hip Hop, about the mambo dance craze and the birth of hip-hop in New York's South Bronx neighborhood. New York ...
Pedro “Cuban Pete” Aguilar, one of the leading mambo dancers of the 1950s who performed for presidents and other world leaders and was featured in Life magazine, has died. He was 81. The mambo legend ...
The John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival has always been about more than great performances about connection, creativity, and community. This year, festival organizers are turning up ...