An exclusive screening of the film Dance of My Heart, featuring the life and career of world famous dancer, ballet master, and choreographer Alberto Alonso, from his beginnings at Havana’s Pro Arte Ballet School until his death at the age of 90 in 2008 in Florida, where he had lived since receiving political asylum in […]
Current Events
‘DANCE OF MY HEART’ ~ CELEBRATING THE REVIVAL OF ALBERTO ALONSO’S ‘CARMEN SUITE’
Saturday, September 7, 2019 @ 6:15 pm
A CUBAN MAESTRO REVISITS ‘ABBEY ROAD’
Saturday, September 14, 2019 at 7 pm
On the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Abbey Road, the last album in which all four Beatles participated, Cuban maestro and composer Armando Tranquilino returns to the CCCNY to take us behind the scenes of the carefully crafted recordings and ambitious musical arrangements, bringing to life a magical period in the history of popular music. […]
LA ESCUELA DE LA HABANA: MARÍA LUISA GÓMEZ MENA Y LA VANGUARDIA
Monday, September 16, 2019 at 7 pm
As a nod to Havana’s 500th anniversary, leading art historian José Ramón Alonso Lorea takes us on an illustrated voyage to the 1940s, when Cuba’s modern art movement was consolidated. The work of these artists was widely promoted by arts patron María Luisa Gómez Mena, founder of Galería del Prado, a pivotal figure in garnering […]
‘IMPROPER CONDUCT’ ~ 35 YEARS LATER
Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 2:30 pm
An exclusive screening of Néstor Almendros’s and Orlando Jiménez Leal’s Improper Conduct (1984), a groundbreaking and critically acclaimed documentary on the Cuban government’s persecution of political dissidents, poets, homosexuals, and those simply labeled by the authorities as “antisocial” elements, many of whom were imprisoned, tortured, or sent to forced labor camps. Released 35 years ago, the […]