Portrait of Carmencita Romero

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Portrait of Carmencita Romero

1983

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39806385

Includes interview in which Carmencita Romero discusses dancing with Katherine Dunham in Chicago, working on Broadway, and in Hollywood movies and television; her travels to Cuba, Japan, Russia and Rome, where she established her own school, Carmencita Dance; the importance of maintaining African and Caribbean dance styles; and teaching at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. Also includes film footage in which she demonstrates Caribbean dance styles and instructs a class.

1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in.

eng, Latn

New York Public Libraries for the Performing Arts, Dance Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 11649357

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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...