Event

The Spirit Moves: Bronx Mambo

Sunday, June 28th, 6:00pm
The Spirit Moves: Bronx Mambo
(Exploring the evolution of homegrown, popular dance in New York City over the last 100 years. A 3 part series.)
Curated by Ksisay Sadiki-Torres and Sophie Windsor Clive

6:00pm
Music and mambo dancing in the street, outside the front of the cinema with mambo dancers Nydia Ocasio, Carlos Mateu, Jonathan Cabrera, Daria Sanchez, Mai Reina Gold and Miguel Aparicio.

7:30pm
From Mambo to Hip-Hop: A South Bronx Tale
Henry Chalfant, 2006, 60 min
There's a postage stamp of urban sidewalk known by people of a certain age for having burned to the ground. A more recent generation knows it as the place where hip-hop was born. An older generation remembers the time that this turf produced a New York Latin music sound that came to be known as salsa. From Mambo to Hip-Hop: A South Bronx Tale is an hour-long documentary that tells a story about the creative life of the South Bronx, beginning with the Puerto Rican migration and the adoption of Cuban rhythms to create the New York salsa sound; continuing with the fires that destroyed the neighborhood, but not the creative spirit of its people; chronicling the rise of hip-hop from the ashes; and ending with reflections on the power of the neighborhood's music to ensure the survival of several generations of its residents, and, in the process, take the world's pop culture by storm.

Q&A with legendary b-boys and Hip Hop legends Clemente "Kid Freeze" Moreno and Jorge "Popmaster Fabel" Pabon followed by music, dancing and refreshments in the downstairs lounge with dance crews Waffle Crew and Unique Force.