This exhibit is a love letter to Flamenco in New York City. It presents an intimate portrait of the traveling lives of Spanish and American dancers, many of them women, who came to New York in search of fame, fortune and freedom. This is also the story of a form of Spanish dance – Flamenco – that walks arm-in-arm with ragtime, jazz and hip hop in defining its era and nation. Flamenco is as much a language of expression as a dance of resistance to poverty, injustice, the Spanish Civil War and Spain’s Francoist regime. The exhibition tracks the artistic evolution of Americans whose lifelong dedication produced an American School. Like any immigrant form, Flamenco comes of age on new soil, melting into the established rhythms of the city. Today, Flamenco ultimately holds something of America inside.

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