Cerezo rosa damaso perez prado biography

The mambo was truly a cross-cultural phenomenon. The Park Plaza Ballroom, at 110th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, was a favorite hangout for enthusiastic dancers from Harlem and other "ethnic" communities.

Cerezo rosa damaso perez prado biography

Here inhibitions were checked at the door and dancers performed with spectacular abandon. Although the Park Plaza is acknowledged to be the true temple of the "authentic mambo," it was a little too authentic and a little too far uptown for the recent middle-class, white converts to the dance.

Ultimately, it was the Palladium Ballroom (originally called the Latin Ballroom and paradoxically renamed by new owner Max Hyman), with its weekly mambo contests (held every Wednesday) which became its most impressive house of worship.

It was reported that on Wednesday nights in New York City the demand for baby-sitters underwent a sharp rise and the amount of money lost on Canasta, gin rummy, bridge, and poker dropped precipitously.

There were a number of reasons