Interview with Carmencita Romero Nov. 18, 1999

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Interview with Carmencita Romero Nov. 18, 1999

1999

Interview with Carmencita Romero conducted by Constance Valis Hill on Nov. 18, 1999, in New York City. The interview was conducted as part of Hill's research of the musical comedy Cabin in the sky in connection with the Popular Balanchine project.

2 audio discs (approximately 113 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in

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Romero, Carmencita, 1914- 2001

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Carmencita Romero (1914-2001) was a dancer who was associated with Katherine Dunham's earliest efforts to establish a dance company in Chicago, first, as a member of her short-lived Ballet Nègre, and as a charter member of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. Romero later taught the Dunham Technique at schools in the United States, Europe, and Japan. She was born Lily May Butler (there are many variant spellings of her first name on official records) in Brookhaven, Mississippi on January 2, 19...