Borough Of Manhattan Comminity College
199 Chambers St, New York, NY 10007
USA
Scenes through the Cinema Lens event
Over the years, this series has featured memorable scenes from American musicals in which dancers display incredible agility and grace. We’ll watch the Nicholas Brothers, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. We’ll also look at memorable dances from classic movies: Bob Fosse & Gwen Verdon (from Damn Yankees), John Travolta & Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling (from La La Land) and more.
“Scenes Through the Cinema Lens” is curated and hosted by Krin Gabbard, who teaches in the Jazz Studies program at Columbia University. In 2014 he retired from Stony Brook University where he had, since 1981, taught classical literature, film studies, and literary theory. His books include Psychiatry and the Cinema (1987), Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema (1996), Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture (2004), Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture (2008), and Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus (2016). At Columbia he teaches courses on jazz and American culture.
PLEASE NOTE: This event is not part of the ongoing Tribeca Film Festival. To attend this event, proceed to the main entrance of BMCC (199 Chambers St.). The Film Festival entrance is on West Street.