Roots + Rumba!

Cuba's fabulous Los Muñequitos de Matanzas

ROOTS + RUMBA WORKSHOP

presented in collaboration with  

Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance,  

MAPP International Productions 

and Max Pollak's RumbaTap

Friday, May 6 (12noon-2pm)

The Cornerstone Center
178 Bennett Avenue (at 189th Street), Manhattan
Take the A train to 190th Street.

Los Muñequitos de Matanzas offer the purest sounds and movements of their Afro-Cuban heritage, with live music, presented and explained in a very accessible and friendly way. They begin with Yoruba Orisha dances through all Rumba styles, bringing all the power and joy of their performance to energize workshop participants. This is a dance workshop but singers and drummers are welcome as well. All levels welcome. Please wear comfortable clothing to dance.

By performing Max Pollak's RumbaTap choreography in their shows over the last decade, Los Muñequitos have helped popularize this new element in Afro-Cuban folklore all over Cuba and worldwide.

Workshop fee: $20 (no reservations necessary)

For more info, email rumbatap@gmail.com.

Don't miss Los Muñequitos de Matanzas LIVE at Symphony Space May 5-7 and The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, SUNY May 8.

Roots and future at Hostos Center

Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture proudly announces its new music and dance program, The Young Roots Performance Series, designed to "showcase emerging artists experimenting with the artistic roots of Afro-Latino traditions to create new branches that reach into the future."

Check out Young Roots' first event: a collaborative exploration between dancer-choreographer Noemi Segarra and percussionist Henry Cole, "in which the artists loosely work on the edges of Cuban rumba and jazz improvisation." The audience will be seated on the stage!

Thursday-Friday, April 7-8 (7:30pm)

Also: Cultural Trolley preview, Wednesday, April 6 (6pm)

For further information about Young Roots and a conversation with Noemi Segarra, click here. 

Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture
450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), Bronx
(directions)

Celebrating Cuban culture in New York

Areytos Performance Works presents

HERENCIA CUBANA: BEMBÉ, SALÓN Y CALLE, a dynamic evening of dance, live music and visual art featuring Afro-Cuban orishas, rumba, salsa, cha-cha-cha and contemporary dance theater.

Friday, March 19, 7:30pm

Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture

450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), The Bronx

Directions

Click here for tickets, or call the box office at 718.518.4455.