February 28, 2015 from 10 am until 2:30 pm in locations on East Campus, Duke University. Specific rooms listed below.
Free and Open to the Public
Schedule in White Lecture Hall:
10:00 - 10:45 am - Meira Goldberg - 100 Years of Flamenco.
10:45 - 10:55 - Questions
10:55 - 11:05 - Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:50 am - Estela Zatania - Rich Harvest -- The proliferation of flamenco among migrant field workers after the Spanish Civil War.
11:50 - noon - Questions
Noon - 12:10 pm - Coffee Break
12:10 - 12:55 - Brook Zern - No-fun Flamenco -- Duende, Black Sounds and Tragedy Told in the First Person.
12:55 -1:05 pm - Questions
1: 15 - 2:30 pm - Master Class in the Ark Dance Studio - with Antonio Hidalgo
PROJECT LEADERS & SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS
Carlota Santana, Artistic Director, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana
Designated as “The Keeper of Flamenco” by Dance Magazine, Carlota Santana is Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. She has led the Company (established in 1983) to its 30th Anniversary and beyond - a first for a New York-based flamenco company. In 2013, Ms. Santana spearheaded the creation of “100 Years of Flamenco in New York” at Lincoln Center’s New York Public Library for the Performing Arts – the first-ever curated exhibition on flamenco in the US. Under her direction, the Company tours nationally and produces extensive, innovative community outreach and arts-in-education programming in its dual home bases of New York City and North Carolina. Ms. Santana is on the faculty of Duke University, has taught at Long Island and New York Universities, and she has also served on grant panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. Ms. Santana has been honored by the King and Government of Spain with La Cruz de la Orden al Mérito Civil (Order of Civil Merit Medal) for “all the years of passion, excellence and dedication to the flamenco art.”
Barbara Dickinson, Professor of the Practice of Dance, Duke University
Barbara Dickinson served as Duke Dance Program Director for eighteen years, overseeing faculty growth, guiding the focus of a greatly expanded curriculum and establishing a major in dance. Dickinson has created many large-scale, full evening collaborative choreographic works including Walking Miracles, an original dance/theater production based on the stories of six survivors of child sexual abuse; and Contents Under Pressure, an exploration of bias. Artistic Director of the Ways and Means Dance Company from 1986-2002, and of Three For All, a company composed of a dancer, poet, and pianist, from 1981-87, she has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Durham Arts Council, Wells College and Duke University. She has performed, taught and presented her choreography in numerous concerts, master classes and workshops in schools, colleges, private studios and dance festivals throughout the United States. Her current research interest is age and the dance artist.
Meira Goldberg, Symposium Speaker
K. Meira Goldberg “La Meira” (M.F.A., Ed.D.) is a flamenco performer, teacher, choreographer, and scholar. She is co-editor and translator for an anthology, Imagining Flamenco: Historical, Critical, and Theoretical Perspectives, forthcoming in 2015 from McFarland. She co-curated the 2013 exhibit “100 Years of Flamenco in New York” at the New York Public Library for the Performing Art at the Lincoln Center, and co-authored the catalog. Her article “Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco” is in Dance Chronicle 37:1; she is writing a book with the same title. She is the lead organizer of a conference on "The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song, and Dance" (April 2015) at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York’s Foundation for Iberian Music, whose proceedings will be published by the Junta de Andalucía. Goldberg’s doctoral dissertation on Carmen Amaya, Border Trespasses: The Gypsy Mask and Carmen Amaya’s Flamenco Dance, is a widely-used resource within the English-speaking Flamenco community. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and she has also taught or guest-lectured at New York University, Bryn Mawr College, Duke University, Julliard, Princeton University, Smith College, and the Flamenco Festival International in Albuquerque.
Estela Zatania, Symposium Speaker
Estela Zatania’s career in flamenco as singer, guitarist, dancer, writer and journalist spans more than 50 years. In 2002, she was named editor-in-chief of the online magazine Deflamenco.com. In 2003, she received a research grant from the Cultural Ministry of Andalucía which led to the publication of her investigation “Flamencos de Gañanía”, selected Best Flamenco Book of 2007 by popular vote. In 2004, she was awarded Spain’s national prize for Flamenco Journalism. She was contributing writer for the books “Flamenco Project: una ventana a la visión extranjera 1960-1985”, “100 Años de Flamenco en Nueva York” and “La Cañeta de Málaga, José Salazar y La Pirula”, and acted as advisor for numerous documentaries, most recently “The Fabulous Sabicas” which she presented at Lincoln Center in New York City. Founding member of the cultural forum “Morón 2004”, Zatania is a regular panel member on the weekly radio program “Los Caminos del Cante” broadcast from Jerez, and currently gives lectures and workshops throughout Europe, Canada and the United States.
Brook Zern, Symposium Speaker
A guitarist, historian and widely-published writer on flamenco, Brook Zern was knighted in 2008 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain for his work in the field, receiving the Cruz de Isabel la Catolica (Officer’s Cross of the Order of Queen Isabella) – the highest honor that Spain can bestow upon a non-Spanish citizen. He is a Contributing Scholar at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York’s Foundation for Iberian Music, and a Consultant on Flamenco in the Ethnomusicology Department of Columbia University. His writing has been published in dozens of American and Spanish publications, and his contributions to The New York Times have been recognized by Spain’s Melia Journalism Prize.
Antonio Hidalgo, Associate Artistic Director, Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana (Master Class Leader)
Antonio Hidalgo is from Córdoba, Spain and had worked with the companies of Jose Antonio, Paco Romero, Jose Greco and Antonio Gades. Now Associate Artistic Director, he has been choreographer and principal dancer with Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana since 1998. With Inmaculada Ortega, he also directs the company Aroma Flamenca and works with the Fundacion Antonio Gades as Assistant Director, soloist and choreography assistant.