The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Presents a Lecture-Demonstration by Morocco, World-Renowned Expert on Oriental Dance, March 10
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presents Morocco, Solo! A Casbah Dance Experience
on Saturday, March 10 at 3:00 p.m. in its Bruno Walter Auditorium. The acclaimed dancer/lecturer will perform the "Cane Dance," an Egyptian women's dance that emphasizes the dancer´s dexterity, balance, and charm, and highlights her hip work. She will also perform the "Oriental Dance," a classical folk dance over 5,000 years old that demonstrates the joy of life and expresses thanks to the female as perpetrator of the species. She will end with a brief talk and answer questions.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center is located on the Lincoln Center campus at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. All of the Library's public programs are free and are held in its Bruno Walter Auditorium. For further information about programs, telephone 212-642-0142 or visit the Library's website www.nypl.org.
About
Morocco
Morocco (Carolina Varga Dinicu) is a leading performer & authority in her field of ethnic dance (Mideastern and North African dance & music) in the United States, Canada, and abroad, evidenced by frequent invitations to teach master seminars and perform in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Australia, Israel, Egypt, England, Morocco, Brazil, and Italy. In addition to numerous awards, she has received many grants, including two from the New York State Council on the Arts for her choreography, and three from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Morocco created the Casbah Dance Experience to show the varied, fascinating ethnic dance forms of the Mideast and North Africa to the general public and give "a bit of home" to North Africans and Mideasterners in the West. She has spent over 46 years trying to find,
recover, preserve and present these dances before they disappear, due to modernization and/or fundamentalism.
About The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses the world's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field. Its divisions are the Circulating Collections, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Music Division, Billy Rose Theatre Division, and the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. The materials in its collections are available free of charge, along with a wide range of special programs, including exhibitions, seminars, and performances. An essential resource for everyone with an interest in the arts - whether professional or amateur - the Library is known particularly for its prodigious collections of non-book materials
such as historic recordings, videotapes, autograph manuscripts, correspondence, sheet music, stage designs, press clippings, programs, posters, and photographs.
About The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library was created in 1895 with the consolidation of the private libraries of John Jacob Astor and James Lenox with the Samuel Jones Tilden Trust. The Library provides free and open access to its physical and electronic collections and information, as well as to its services. It comprises four research centers - the Humanities and Social Sciences Library; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; and the Science, Industry and Business Library - and 86 Branch Libraries in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx. Research and circulating collections combined total more than 50 million
items. In addition, each year the Library presents thousands of exhibitions and public programs, which include classes in technology, literacy, and English as a second language. The New York Public Library serves over 15 million patrons who come through its doors annually and another 21 million users internationally, who access collections and services through its website, www.nypl.org.
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Contact: Rima Corben at 212.592.7700 or rcorben@nypl.org
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