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Yinka Esi Graves: The Disappearing Act

2024-06-22

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Yinka Esi Graves is the Black Flamenco dancer in the documentary “Gurumbe: Canciones de tu Memoria Negra.” “The Disappearing Act” is her first solo production, in which she draws on her reality as a flamenco dancer of Afro-Caribbean descent and the historical and representational questions this has raised throughout her career.

 

With dance, live music, text, and video, this experimental flamenco work was developed through a series of international residencies. Get your tickets HERE!

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Yinka Esi Graves: The Disappearing Act

Location

UNM X-Theatre
Center for the Arts at Cornell and Redondo
Website
https://www.unmtickets.com/theatres/x-theatre

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1258 Ortiz SE

#304

Albuquerque, NM 87108

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Phone: (505) 407-6784

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Date

Jun 22 2024
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Time

6:00 pm

Yinka Esi Graves: The Disappearing Act

Yinka Esi Graves is the Black Flamenco dancer in the documentary “Gurumbe: Canciones de tu Memoria Negra.” “The Disappearing Act” is her first solo production, in which she draws on her reality as a flamenco dancer of Afro-Caribbean descent and the historical and representational questions this has raised throughout her career.

 

With dance, live music, text, and video, this experimental flamenco work was developed through a series of international residencies. Get your tickets HERE!

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