NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) will be hosting a round table discussion on flamenco on March 9th at 6:30 pm. The panel will include K. Meira Goldberg, a flamenco dancer and scholar who is a visiting scholar for the 2015-16 academic year at the Foundation for Iberian Music. Other participants include Marina Heredia (Flamenco Festival New York), Paloma McGregor (Angela’s Pulse, Dancing While Black), Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis), and Sebastian Calderón Bentin (NYU Tisch School of the Arts).

Description of the panel’s focus, from the KJCC’s website:

Historically, flamenco artistry was generated as a dazzling, resistant response to the discrimination and poverty endured by the Roma of Spain and other marginalized communities in Andalusia. Today, flamenco is marked not only by its inheritance of loss and art but by the multiple forces of culture, diaspora, identity, politics, and market. This panel asks questions to reframe the life and futures of flamenco. We will consider how contemporary flamenco artists negotiate the fine line between embracing an artistic inheritance and breaking free of stereotype. Can flamenco survive in the fullness of its profound and deep expression without being boxed in by obligatory sorrow and suffering? What will the new sources of inspiration be for the generations of artists who have not known the suffering of their ancestors? How does flamenco’s evolution in the context of globalized 21st century culture reflect changing ideas about gender and race? How do today’s artists beat a path to the future, finding new and authentic creative impetus?

This panel discussion is a part of Flamenco Festival NY. A reception will follow.

6:30 pm, March 9
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY. USA 10012
Tel: (212) 998-3650