The Dance Historian Is In: Contemporary Flamenco Dance * NYC * Discussion & Excerpts from new documentary ‘Seras Farruquito’

Wednesday, June 25, 2025, 1 – 3 PM

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium

For this Dance Historian Is In, Reuben Atlas, an accomplished documentary filmmaker will be joined by Bárbara Martínez, an expert on the modern flamenco scene, to show excerpts from Seras Farruquito, an exciting, soon-to-be-released flamenco documentary on Farruquito, a contemporary Spanish flamenco dancer, and present an overview of contemporary flamenco dance with video from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s moving image collection.

For more than 10 years, The Dance Historian Is In at the Library for the Performing Arts has highlighted a diverse range of dancers and choreographers across history. This series began when archivist and historian David Vaughan started volunteering at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Vaughan began a monthly program showing his favorite dance films from the Division’s extensive collection, through which he unearthed many treasures, and helped acquire even more. Vaughan continued the series until the end of his life. Today, we honor his memory and work by inviting dance historians from all over the world each month to carry on the tradition of highlighting dance history through the Dance Division’s moving image collection.

Photo Credit: Farruquito by Javi Ruiz.

This event will take place online via Zoom as well as in person at The Library for the Performing Arts.