Documentary Film Mamboniks (with Dinner and a Dancing Lesson)

The documentary film Mamboniks is about the popularity, particularly with the Jews of New York, of Cuban music and dancing in the 1950s. Our showing of the film will include havdalah, dinner, and a lesson in Latin Dancing!

From the film’s website:

Bagels meet bongos in this surprising story of Jewish dancers who fell in love with the Cuban mambo in the 1950s, sparking a dance craze that swept the nation and the world. Only a revolution could stop it.

The Mamboniks tells a little-known story: how Jewish people fell in love with the music and dance of Cuba during the exciting 1950s mambo era. In the 1950s, when much of America was dancing to Elvis and early rock-n-roll, some free-spirited dancers in New York City swayed to a different beat. They fell for the mambo, a hot dance from Havana. Surprisingly, many of them were Jewish. Like the beatniks back then, they earned a nickname: the mamboniks.

Registration to come.

Visit the movie’s website for more about the film and to watch the trailer.