New York City, March 14, 2013, 6pm ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON, "MASTER T " ON FIRE WITH AFRICAN DANCE : FREE ADMISSION Bruno Walter Auditorium, 111 Amsterdam Avenue The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Presented by The Jerome Robbins Dance Division

New York City,  March 14, 2013, 6pm   

ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON,

 "MASTER T "

ON FIRE WITH AFRICAN DANCE :  FREE ADMISSION

Bruno Walter Auditorium, 111 Amsterdam Avenue

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center

Presented by The Jerome Robbins Dance Division

"Staccato Incandescence:  The Story of Mambo"

Robert Farris Thompson, Master T, the Colonel John Trumbull Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, will lecture on mambo, which shows a fusion of a variety of dance styles from Lindy, to ballet, to bomba, to Afro-Cuban dance. Thompson is America's most prominent scholar of African Art, and has presided over exhibitions of African art at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He lived in the Yoruba region of southwest Nigeria for many years while he conducted his research of Yoruba arts history. He affiliated with the University of Ibadan and Yoruba village communities. Cornel West, who teaches African American studies at Princeton, calls this white man from Texas "my dear brother" and "one of the greatest pioneers in the study of Afro-American culture and African culture."