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During the 1950s, free-spirited, mostly Jewish dancers from New York City fell head over heels for the mambo, a hot dance from Havana, Cuba. Their love for Latin rhythms earned them a nickname: the mamboniks like the beatniks.
Directed by Peabody Award winner Lex Gillespie, The Mamboniks tells a surprising, little-known story: how two cultures, Jewish and Latin, met on the dance floor at a time when America was racially segregated, and anti-Semitism was commonplace.
It features a lovable, somewhat zany group of characters, now retired yet still dancing in Florida, who spin their tales with heart, humor and chutzpah.
Set to the infectious Afro-Cuban sounds of Tito Puente and Celia Cruz, the film traces the mambos rise from its birth in Cuba, to the peak of its popularity in the neon-splashed New York of the 1950s.
We travel to Havana with mambonik Marvin Marvano Jaye, who last visited the island in 1959, when dancers performed as the bombs of Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries echoed in the streets.
For many mamboniks, the affinity for Latin sounds was more than just pure fun: in the years after World War II, dancing helped Jews banish the horrors of the Holocaust and find joy once again.
Mad Men meets Buena Vista Social Club in this surprising story about the dancers who fell in love with Cuban Mambo in the 1950s, sparking a dance craze that swept the nation and the world.
The Mamboniks is the first documentary to tell the story of the musical and dance invasion that came from Cuba in the years preceding Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution of 1959.
JULY 09 COUNTRY: USA LANGUAGE: ENGLISH 89 MIN: 2019
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UbicaciónSouthampton Arts Center (Ver)
25 Jobs Lane
Southampton, NY 11968
United States
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