Cortometraje: The Palladium Ballroom. Duración: 12 minutos. Idiomas: Inglés y Castellano.
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- Famoso salón de baile neoyorquino que se caracterizó por ser el centro de la música latina y sus bailes en EE.UU. durante el período de 1948 a 1966. Por escenario pasaron artistas de la talla de Machito y sus afrocubans, Benny Moré, La Lupe, Daniel Santos, Dámaso Pérez Prado, Celia Cruz, Joseíto Mateo, Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez, entre otros. Incluso, sirvió para poner de moda al Mambo y Cha Cha Chá en los EE.UU. Además, se convirtió en el espacio de los mejores bailadores de música latina. Cabe destacar a Pedro Cuba y a la pareja de Augie y Margo Rodríguez.
Mambo gave rise to cha cha and salsa and a while back there was a controversy whether to break forward on the 1 or the 2 in salsa. The legendary bongosero Jack Constanzo was there at the time and he was a mambo dancer, as was Tito Puente and Armando Perrazza. He told me that in the Palladium Era everyone broke forward on the 2. Proof of that, I'd say, is in how cha cha starts by breaking to the side on 1 leading, in turn, to breaking forward on the 2. Mambo and what its moves would have evolved to is very much alive and thriving in how it's woven into New York and LA style of salsa dancing except for a bit of mambo architecture such as in moves like "New Yorkers" that don't work in salsa due to the slight difference in how the timing is put through the dance step pattern. As a dancer, I'd say mambo moves resolve in a sharper, more staccato manner than salsa moves. Salsa timing rounds things out more and the moves resolve in a smoother, softer way. Otherwise, dancing them is the same and in that mambo lives on,. Salsa can be said to be what mambo evolved into. And the Latin big band era lives on in the big salsa bands of today.
The Palladium ballroom actually opened on April 15th, 1946. It started out with different Anglo bands playing swing music and ONE "Latin" ensemble performing Afro-Cuban music led by a Puerto Rican trumpeter from Brooklyn named "Kiki" Garcia.
On Friday June 6th, 1947 Garcia's residency at the Palladium ended.
On Thursday June 12, 1947 during a matinee (2pm) and evening (8pm) "Machito and the Afrocubans" debuted at the Palladium ballroom for the very first time. They were contracted by Thomas Morton. They played throughout the Summer and ended their residency in September of 1947. They then returned in November of '47.
Inspired by the "Club Tico-Tico" dances taking place on Sundays at the Manhattan Center ballroom, Mr. Morton brought on several Puerto Rican dance promoters, one of whom was Arsenio Pagani, aka "El Gran Federico," to form a consortium and rival the Manhattan Center dances. The latter of which would feature 2 to 3 bands each time out.
On Wednesday December 3rd, 1947, the very first "Blen Blen Club" dance took place. Featuring 4 bands. Including the orchestras led by Machito, Tito Rodriguez, Bartolo Hernandez, and one swing band led by "Buster" Long.
The rest is *PARTIAL* history...
You know,as great as this is ,unfortunately it's the same,same ,same footage of the palladium . We dig it.its great but does anyone ,anywhere have any other footage??? Please!!!!!!!