Performing Arts
Dance Auditions: Carnaval 2022
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Rehearsal Halls11 am Albuquerque's CARNAVAL 2022 at the NHCC’s Roy E Disney Center for Performing Arts is scheduled for February 25th & 26th, 2022. The Odara Dance Ensemble will be holding audition Saturday, August 21st starting at 11 am at the NHCC’s PNM Rehearsal Hall . Be prepared to audition to various styles of dance, including cultural elements of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil, and New Orleans. Carnaval, the festive season occurring before Lent in many countries, is one of the world’s most widespread celebrations and one of its biggest (more...)
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de Ignacio Pardo
12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Ignacio Pardo is one of the pioneers of video art in Galicia and in Spain, utilizing digital animation in work revolving around the classic themes of Eros and Thanatos. Frequently recurring motifs include decay, suffering, and pain, as well as sexuality as a natural element in an ongoing life cycle, and his films display a humor that reflects an acceptance of this cycle and an ability to find joy in living. The short works screened include (more...)
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Lume
12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Lume (Fire) is one of the most recent works by Alberte Pagán, a specialist in experimental cinema, and part of Pagán’s “Superficies” (“Surfaces”) series, in which the director plays with juxtaposing still photographs of natural elements with the movement of his story. In Lume, an intense, reddish chromatic palette, reminiscent of fire, emphasizes the rage shown in the audiovisual images, projected on a photograph of roots. The live sound in the piece is from a demonstration (more...)
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Inside the Microtubule
12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE In Inside the Microtubule, Judith Adataberna, a visual artist specializing in photography, video installation, and experimental film, explores the mechanisms of memory through the increasingly fragile memories of her 99-year-old grandmother. Images from a mountain climb at night during a snowstorm, together with images of the neurons and synapses that form the physical basis of our memories, reinforce the director’s reflections on memory, fear, and solitude. 2018; Gallego with English subtitles; 9 minutes; not rated. Free (more...)
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Reality
12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Visual artist and filmmaker David Fidalgo Omil uses animation to create his humorous and critical pieces. Reality explores the violence and absurdity of reality televisión, as comedy turns to tragedy in this satirical look at human misery. 2020; Spanish; 8 minutes; suitable for viewers 16 and older. Free community event In September, thanks to a collaboration with Intersección: Festival de Arte Audiovisual Contemporánea da Coruña, Instituto Cervantes presents the film cycle Videocreación en Galicia, una cartografía. The festival (more...)
Global Headphone Dance Party
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM7 pm (MST) ¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Annual World Music & Culture Celebration returns to the National Hispanic Cultural Center on September 17 and 18, celebrating immigrant and Indigenous culture in the U.S. with live music, from cutting edge to traditional, on the Center’s Plaza Mayor. This year’s festival, produced by Avokado Artists, kicks off with a headphone dance party on September 16. Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org. Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org. $10 to check out one headphone COVID PROTOCOLS: ¡Globalquerque! will be abiding by all CDC and local public health (more...)
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Foco de DSK
12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE This anthology showcases the diverse work of DSK, a collective formed by Juan Lesta and Belén Montero. The artists, pioneers of video art in Galicia, were active for 20 years, creating pieces that experiment with hybridization among different disciplines and play with humor and irony as well as aesthetics. The short works screened include M09, Vida, Twin Power, Crépitation, O tempo perdido, aTienda, Morphing, Miro la vida pasar, Square Religion, Vide, Pedra e auga, and Estiven (more...)
¡GLOBALQUERQUE!
NHCC Campus 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5 pm (MST) ¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Annual World Music & Culture Celebration returns to the National Hispanic Cultural Center on September 17 and 18, celebrating immigrant and Indigenous culture in the U.S. with live music, from cutting edge to traditional, on the Center’s Plaza Mayor. This year’s festival, produced by Avokado Artists, kicks off with a headphone dance party on September 16. Learn more at www.Globalquerque.org. COVID PROTOCOLS: ¡Globalquerque! will be abiding by all CDC and local public health mandates and guidelines. In addition to this, only those who are fully (more...)
Film: Videocreación en Galicia, Llamada a la escuela
12 pm MST Available for 48 hours Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel HERE Carme Nogueira, a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and teacher, has an extensive background in both creative and academic fields. In Llamada a la escuela, she juxtaposes school archives and testimonies of children who attended the Las Hurdes school in the early 1930s with a passage from Luis Buñuel’s 1933 documentary Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan, as well as drawings created by students today. 2016; Spanish with English subtitles; 3 minutes; not rated. In September, thanks to a (more...)
Film: Parejas creativas (Creative Couples), El evangelio de las maravilla
6 pm (opening reception at 5 pm) The film cycle Parejas creativas showcases the cinematography of director Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, both from Mexico City, who have been working together since 1986. Ripstein, who began his career under the mentorship of Luis Buñuel, is considered one of the greatest Mexican filmmakers of all time. His creative partner and wife, Garciadiego, is an award-winning screenwriter; their latest collaboration is La calle de la amargura. Both are recipients of the Premio Mirada Internacional 28° FCM-PNR (Festival (more...)