Posts by K. Meira Goldberg

Juana Vargas "La Macarrona:" A Flamenco Treasure

by K. Meira Goldberg
January 21, 2015

The footage of Juana Vargas "La Macarrona" (1870-1947), filmed in 1917 by Léonide Massine and held in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the Library for the Performing Arts, is one of the Library's most important, and little-known, flamenco treasures. As a member of the Wertheim study, I was honored to be invited to write a blog post about the Library's significant holdings related to flamenco.

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