Theatre

National Institute of Flamenco and the NHCC Present Yjastros 34

  The NHCC’s Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts is closed due to a facilities issues. As a result, this weekend’s performances of the National Institute of Flamenco’s performances of “Yjastros 34” at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, on March 15 and 16, are canceled. For questions about tickets, please contact the NHCC Box Office at 505-383-4771. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience. The National Institute of Flamenco have canceled their performance here at the NHCC and they will have another performance at the Elizabeth Waters (more…)

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Atacama—A World Premiere

September 28-30 & October 5-7, 2018 7:30 pm—Friday-Saturday 2 pm—Sunday Augusto Federico Amador’s Atacama is a play about a man and a woman who meet in the northern Chilean desert while searching for bone fragments of loved ones disappeared by the Pinochet regime, and find a deep and unsettling connection that shakes their souls. Juliet Salazar directs Bernadette Peña and James R. Chávez in this taut psychological drama. Finalist for the 2018 BBC International Playwriting Competition, runner up for the National Latino Playwriting Award,and 50 Playwright Project’s

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4 Guys Named José and una mujer named María!

Please note that all performances of this show will take place at the NHCC in the Bank of America Theatre.  7:30 pm—Thursday-Saturday 2 pm—Sunday An Off-Broadway smash hit, never before presented in Albuquerque, this musical comedy celebrates the rich and vibrant musical history of Latin America. Emphasizing both the diversity and the commonality of Latino cultures, it features a show-within-a-show as the “4 Guys Named José”—one Puerto Rican, one Mexican, one Cuban, and one Dominican—design a musical revue that will showcase the music they grew up with

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Revolutions International Theatre Festival: Words from the Walls

Thursday, March 21, 2019 Saturday, March 23, 2019 7 pm both days Produced by Tricklock Company, the Revolutions International Theatre Festival welcomes performance companies from all over the globe to perform and connect across cultures and communities. For the 19th annual festival, Tricklock and the NHCC present Words from the Walls. Created by world-renowned Colombian/US Nemcatacoa Words from the Walls is a site-specific performance that explores different points of view about walls that separate people.  A non-conventional performance that mixes bilingual poetry, video projection, music, and physical theater on stilts. Words from the Walls creates an ambulatory

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¡Globalquerque! International Cinema Series: Mustang (France/Turkey)

7 pm In September, the Bank of America Free Thursday Film Series showcases the ¡Globalquerque! International Cinema Series, presented in partnership with ¡Globalquerque!, New Mexico’s Fourteenth Celebration of World Music and Culture, returning to the NHCC on September 21 & 22. Films in the series are from countries whose artists are represented in this year’s festival. When five orphaned teenage sisters are seen playing innocently on the beach with their male classmates, and reported to their guardians by a prying neighbor, the conservative family essentially imprisons the

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5th Annual South American Folk Fair

2 pm The 5th Annual South American Folk Fair seeks to unite Albuquerque’s South American community in a day of cultural experience and connection through music, dance, and food. The festival will feature traditional food and folkloric dances from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú and Venezuela. Headlining the event will be Houston-based Pachangara, under the direction of Venezuelan percussionist Gerardo Araujo. Added attractions for the entire family include free face painting and dance workshops for all ages. $14 in advance, $16 day of show w/ $2

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Ballet Folklórico Santa Fe and the NHCC Present Traditions! Folklórico Dance Spectacular

2 pm & 7:30 pm Mainstage evening show begins at 7:30 pm, with a pre-show live mariachi concert beginning at 6:30 pm in the lobby and moving to the auditorium at 7 pm. Come early and enjoy a full night of music and dance! Traditions is a folkloric dance showcase featuring three New Mexico ensembles, including Ballet Folklórico Santa Fe, Albuquerque’s Grupo Folklórico Desoluna, and northern New Mexico’s Baile Ilusión, accompanied by Banda Neluayotl from Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. The participating groups will focus on presenting traditional pieces

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Casa Flamenca presents Flamenco Without Borders, with Juani de la Isla

This event has been cancelled and will be re-scheduled at the earliest convenience. Please contact the NHCC box office at 505-724-4771 for more information. 7:30 pm Internationally known Juani de la Isla is a master flamenco guitarist from the island of San Fernando near the port city of Cádiz, in southern Spain. He began his musical education studying with the great flamenco singer Rafael Romero, has been a student of the celebrated flamenco guitarist Manolo Sanlúcar, and has also been trained in the gypsy flamenco style of

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DNAWORKS and the NHCC Present The Real James Bond…Was Dominican

7:30 pm—Thursday-Saturday 2 pm—Sunday What happens when a James Bond-obsessed Dominican boy in Queens (who won’t go anywhere without his nerf gun), finds out that the real James Bond was Dominican? This is a true story about Porfirio Rubirosa, Ian Fleming’s inspiration for Bond, and a young Dominican actor-to-be – whose discovery of “Rubi” shakes his very foundation. Set to a live percussion score and immersive projections, The Real James Bond…Was Dominican is a young man’s guide to love, sex, color, code-switching, white-washing, success, fake-it-till-you-make-it, and the

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