50 YEARS OF CHA CHA CHA
Original language title: 50 ANOS DEL CHACHACHA

Country of production: Mexico
Year: 2002
Language: Spanish
28 mins.

Get up and dance! Cha cha cha music swept the pop music world in the 1950s, and is still going strong today. Cha cha cha is closely associated with the Cuban Orquestra America, whose composers established the genre. Here we meet with Ninon Mondejar, founder of the Orquestra, who is still very alive and active today. He talks about how the music and the dance associated with it emerged, even explaining the origin of the term "cha cha cha!"

Director: Jill Hartley
Script: Jill Hartley
Cinematography: Jill Hartley
Music: Orquestra America and Ninon Mondejar
Editing: Jill Hartley
Sound: Jill Hartley
Producer: Jill Hartley
Production Company: Jill Hartley Films
Source:
Jill Hartley
Jill Hartley Films
Secreto 21-1, Chimalistac
01070 Mexico D.F., Mexico
jillhartley@prodigy.net.mx

Jill Hartley was born in Los Angeles, California in 1950. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle with a degree in plastic and graphic arts, then completed a year in the master's program in ethnographic filmmaking at the same institution. She has been a professional photographer since 1978, with work published and exhibited widely. With the advent of digital video, she is finally achieving her original dream of making independent documentaries. Ms. Hartley currently lives in Mexico City.

Sunday, March 23
3pm
Gallery Theatre
Screening with MAYA PLISETSKAYA ASSOLUTA