Attendees of Aperture Foundation’s reception for the exhibition No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography (currently on view at the Aperture Gallery and at Instituto Cervantes) were audience to a thrilling and moving performance by the influential contemporary Flamenco dancer Pastora Galván.

No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography is curated by José Lebrero Stals and covers more than one hundred and fifty years of images, presenting an extensive survey of how photographers of different eras have approached the universe of flamenco, whether documenting the dance itself, gestures that recall it, or the culture that has developed around it.

Please enjoy the following edited excerpt of Galván’s performance and be sure to explore the No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography exhibition in-person at both Aperture Gallery and Instituto Cervantes.

Stop by the Aperture Gallery this Saturday, March 6th, for Aperture’s  Armory Brunch and peruse the images from this historic show as well as greet other members of the Aperture community. The event will feature exclusives on books and limited edition prints and special appearances by photographers including Zwelethu Mthethwa, Eirik Johnson, Susan Meiselas, Doug Dubois, Donna Ferrato, Joel Meyerowitz, Jacqueline Hassink, and Gillian Laub. Refreshments will be served.

No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography
On view through April 1st

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
Monday – Saturday: 10:00am – 6:00pm

Amster Yard Gallery at Instituto Cervantes
211 East 49th Street
New York, New York
Monday – Friday: 10:30am-6:30pm
Saturday: 10:30am-1:30pm

View the New York Times Review of No Singing Allowed: Flamenco and Photography

© Yolanda Delamo

El Ojo de Tu Vecino (The Eye of Your Neighbor) is an exhibition that attempts to recreate the vision of a number of young Spanish-speaking photographers who live and work in New York, and to open a space where they can express their thoughts on coexistence in our metropolis. The photographic visual essays gathered here attempt a reading on different levels; where the public, the private and the intimate are theorized. El Ojo de Tu Vecino creates a visual discourse surrounding the reality, fiction and imagination of the subjects being photographed and, without a doubt, on human behavior.

Curated by the Cuban Rafael DíazCasas, El Ojo de Tu Vecino responds to a collaborative desire between three institutions: Aperture Foundation, under the leadership of the Mexican Juan García de Oteyza, El Museo del Barrio, whose director Julián Zugazagoitia made the project his own, suggesting through his collaborators a curatorial course of action, and Instituto Cervantes New York, promoter, producer and host of the exhibition.

El Ojo de Tu Vecino (The Eye of Your Neighbor)
Thursday, July 2—Saturday, September 5, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 2, 2009  6:00 pm

Galería Amster Yard, Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York
211-215 East 49th Street
New York, New York