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Margarita "Tata" Cepeda (born 1945) is a Puerto Rican dancer, singer, teacher, and cultural icon known for her lifelong dedication to preserving and promoting the traditional Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance forms of bomba and plena. Affectionately nicknamed "La Mariposa de la Bomba" (The Butterfly of Bomba), Cepeda is celebrated for her ...
Bomba Dance in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Bomba was developed in Puerto Rico during the early European colonial period. The first documentation of bomba dates back to 1797: botanist André Pierre Ledru described his impressions of local inhabitants dancing and singing popular bombas in Voyage aux îles de Ténériffe, la Trinité, Saint-Thomas, Sainte-Croix et Porto Ricco.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Puerto Rican dancers. It includes dancers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Puerto Rican female dancers"
Sylvia Del Villard was the first and only director of the office of the Afro-Puerto Rican affairs of the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture. Sylvia Del Villard (February 28, 1928 – February 28, 1990), was an actress , dancer, choreographer and Afro-Puerto Rican activist.
Pages in category "Puerto Rican dancers" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. César Abreu;
Sandungueo, also known as perreo, is a style of dance and party music associated with reggaeton that emerged in the late 1980s in Puerto Rico.This style of dancing and music was created by DJ Blass, hence his Sandunguero Vol. 1 & 2 albums and popularized and spread worldwide by the website Sandungueo.com. [1]
Leiomy Maldonado (born April 28, 1987 [1]), known as the "Wonder Woman of Vogue", is a transgender Puerto Rican [2] dancer, instructor, model, [3] activist, [4] and ballroom dancer. [5] She is the founder of the House of Amazon [6] and best known for her voguing. Maldonado introduced a new style of voguing which is more athletic and dramatic ...
The festival centers on the danza, a musical genre native from the city of Ponce and oftentimes called "Puerto Rico's classical music" [7] with rhythm, tune, and cadence that are similar to the waltz. [8] The celebration lasts a week and takes place in mid-May. It is sponsored by the Ponce Municipal Government and the Institute of Puerto Rican ...