K. Meira Goldberg, EdD
Education
BA, University of California, Los Angeles
MFA, EdD, Temple University
Biography
K. Meira Goldberg is a widely recognized flamenco performer, choreographer, teacher, and scholar. She has performed alongside major artists in Spain and across North America, has choreographed a number of operas, and has taught many of the leading lights in today’s U.S. flamenco scene. She has also instigated and collaborated in a number of international conferences and published anthologies. Her monograph, Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco (Oxford University Press, 2019 and, translated by Kiko Mora, Libargo 2022), won the Barnard Hewitt Award for best 2019 book in theatre history or cognate disciplines, as well as Honorable Mention for the Sally Banes Publication Award for best exploration of the intersections between theatre and dance/movement, both from the American Society for Theatre Research.
Research Interests
I am interested in flamenco history and dance history more broadly. My research has spanned from the present to the early modern period, and I am now working in medieval Iberia. My focus is on the embodiment of race in dance, on embodied practice as a research methodology, and on the transatlantic circulations of music, song, and dance.
Selected Publications
"Forces of Freedom: Carmen Amaya in La hija de Juan Simón (1935)." In Lidia López Gómez, ed., Popular Music in Spanish Cinema (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series [Routledge], 2024), 41–58.
"Singing Of and With the Other: Flamenco and the Politics of Pastoralism in Medieval Iberia", postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies special issue, “Legacies of Medieval Dance,” edited by Kathryn Dickason (August 2023).
Sonidos negros: Sobre la Negritud del flamenco, translated by Kiko Mora (Granada: Editorial Libargo, 2022).
The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots, co-edited with Antoni Pizà, (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022).
“Raising Cain: Dancing the Ethics and Poetics of Diaspora in Flamenco,” in Naomi Jackson, Rebecca Pappas, and Toni Shapiro-Phim, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 349–73.
Indígenas, africanos, roma y europeos: Ritmos transatlánticos en música, canto y baile, co-edited with Raquel Paraíso, Jessica Gottfried, and Antoni Pizà, Música oral del Sur, vol. 17 (2020).
Sonidos Negros: On the Blackness of Flamenco (Oxford University Press, 2019).
Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Natives, Africans, Roma, co-edited with Walter Clark and Antoni Pizà (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019).
The Global Reach of the Fandango in Music, Song and Dance: Spaniards, Indians, Africans and Gypsies, co-edited with Antoni Pizà (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016).
Flamenco on the Global Stage: Historical, Critical, and Theoretical Perspectives, co-edited with Ninotchka Bennahum, and Michelle Hayes (McFarland Books, 2015).
100 Years of Flamenco in New York City, with Ninotchka Bennahum (New York: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, [2013], 2021). Exhibit catalog. NYPL Press Release (January 30, 2013).
Awards
Barnard Hewitt Award for best 2019 book in theatre history or cognate disciplines, 2020, American Society for Theatre Research
Honorable Mention from the Sally Banes Publication Award for best exploration of the intersections between theatre and dance/movement, 2020, American Society for Theatre Research.
Courses
- PE 216 History of Ballet & Modern Dance
- PE 217 Popular Urban Dance Past & Present
- PE 215 Seeing Dance Live
- PE 118 Flamenco
- PE 148 Mat Pilates