The Best of New York Latin Culture - Events during February 2015
| From: | Anna B. |
| Sent on: | Friday, February 13, 2015, 5:29 PM |
February 2015
Dear STSANY members!
Here are some wonderful events you can enjoy during the month of February. It's my pleasure to let you know what's going on in New York whenever I can. Let me know if you attend any of these events, and if you, indeed, enjoyed them.
Cheers,
Anna 
P.S. Please forgive me if the images don't appear in this email. Sometimes they do, and sometimes not! I'm trying to get the hang of it.
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New York City Center (Arlene Shuler, President & CEO) has played a defining role in the cultural life of the city since 1943. It was Manhattan’s first performing arts center, dedicated by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with a mission to make the best in music, theater and dance accessible to all audiences.
Today, City Center is home to many distinguished companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, City Center’s Principal Dance Company, as well as Manhattan Theatre Club; a roster of renowned national and international visiting artists; and its own critically acclaimed and popular programs. The Tony-honored Encores! musical theater series has been hailed as “one of the very best reasons to be alive in New York.”
Havana Rakatan 500 Years of Cuban Music and DanceFebruary 18-22 at New York City Center
Havana Rakatan, one of Cuba's most successful cultural exports, tells the story of 500 years of Cuban music and dance. Cuba's most successful choreographer, Nilda Guerra,is bringing some of Cuba’s best dancers direct from London’s legendary Sandler Wells Theatre to New York City Center. Only six performances from February 18-22, 2015. Tickets start at $25.
New York City Center131 West 55th Street
(between Sixth & Seventh Aves)
Midtown
NYCityCenter.org About Havana Rakatan
February 18-22 at New York City Center
Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s M¡longa is coming to New York City Center for only four performances from February 26 – March 1, 2015. This production features ten Tango dancers, two Contemporary dancers, and an Argentine Tango quintet.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is a celebrated international choreographer from Belgium. Cherkaoui adds a contemporary twist to Tango in M¡longa, the story of a night dancing Tango in Buenos Aires.
M¡longa is the first major touring Tango show that is not directed by an Argentine. Europeans dance Tango with balletic flair. M¡longa is a production of Sadler Wells London, one of the world’s top dance theaters.
Whether you love Tango or love dance, you will love this show!
Tickets start at $25.
New York City Center131 West 55th Street
(between Sixth & Seventh Aves)
Midtown
NYCityCenter.org About M¡longa
LATIN MUSIC
The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy. We believe Jazz is a metaphor for Democracy. Because jazz is improvisational, it celebrates personal freedom and encourages individual expression. Because jazz is swinging, it dedicates that freedom to finding and maintaining common ground with others. Because jazz is rooted in the blues, it inspires us to face adversity with persistent optimism.
Elio Villafranca's Music of the Caribbean Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica & CubaFebruary 20-21, Jazz at Lincoln Center
Elio Villafranca is one of a line of extraordinary Cuban pianists. He is a fluid master of both jazz idioms and Afro-Cuban rhythms. In Music of the Caribbean, Villafranca follows Congolese traditions through Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba. Only two shows at Jazz at Lincoln Center on February 20-21, 2015 at 9:30pm and 7:30pm respectively.
Get Tickets
Jazz at Lincoln Center(Broadway at 60th Street)
Lincoln Square
Jazz.org About Elio Villafranca's Music of the Caribbean
with Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Across the Americas Canada, Cuba, Brazil & Argentina
February 27-28, Jazz at Lincoln Center
In Jazz Across the Americas, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis covers the quilt of American jazz from Canada to Tierra del Fuego.
Swing to the music of Canadians Oscar Peterson and Gil Evans, Chico O’Farrill of Cuba, Hermeto Pascoal of Brazil, and Lalo Schifrin of Argentina. Two shows only on February 27-28, 2015 at 8pm.
Wynton Marsalis is its most famous member, but the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is an all-star band. Together they swing as hard as any of the great orchestras of history. Pictured are Sherman Irby and Carlos Henriquez. Sherman or any of the band playing a solo can give you chills. Carlos Henriquez is the most important Latin Jazz musician in the United States today.
If you haven't heard the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra live, you haven't truly lived in New York City. Don't miss this show.
Get Tickets
Jazz at Lincoln Center(Broadway at 60th Street)
Lincoln Square
Jazz.org About Jazz Across the Americas Discover more Latin music on NewYorkLatinCulture.com
LATIN ART
For 25 years Throckmorton Fine Art has specialized in vintage and contemporary photography of the Americas with a primary focus on Latin American talents. The gallery’s founder, Spencer Throckmorton, has also pursued a long held interest in Chinese Jades and Pre-Columbian Art. Throckmorton has staged important exhibitions and published numerous publications on these subjects.
Throckmorton-NYC.com
Ends February 28
Ruven Afanador Ángel Gitano | The Men of Flamenco is a Rizzoli art book, short film, and fine art photography exhibition that started its American and European tour at Throckmorton Fine Art.
Ruven Afanador is a New York fashion and celebrity photographer, originally from Colombia. He has been fascinated with the culture of Spain, it’s bullfights and Flamenco dancers, since he was a boy. This is Afanador’s third in a series that started with bull fighters, and the women of Flamenco.
You’ve never seen Flamenco like this, and probably never will again. The Spaniards are shocked at how much Afanador got the very conservative Flamenco community of Spain to open up. Afanador doesn’t take pictures, he creates them out of his rich imagination.
Afanador has a large following in the Fashion world. His work is not expensive to buy, but rapidly appreciates in value. The exhibition closes this month. Go see it.
Throckmorton is the top gallery in the United States for Latin American photography, pre-Columbian art, and Chinese jades and statuary. We always thought they were the best in New York, but their reputation in the global art world is much bigger than that.
Throckmorton Fine Art145 East 57th Street, 3rd Floor
(between Third Ave & Lexington)
Midtown
(212)[masked]
Tue-Sat 11am-5pm
Throckmorton-NYC.com About Throckmorton Fine Art Discover more Latin art on NewYorkLatinCulture.com
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