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This company has received scholarships and support from the National Endowment for Culture and Arts (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, FONCA) and the Council for the Culture and Arts of Nuevo Leon (Consejo para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León, CONARTE), just like from the program “México en Escena”. It has promoted 15 ...
Teatro Nacional in Havana Cuba. La técnica cubana was founded in Cuba in 1959 and is intimately linked to revolutionary ideals and social activism. The Cuban Revolution of 1959, led by Fidel Castro, transformed the Cuban economy and enacted a series of progressive social reforms in which wealth was redistributed, health care services became free of charge, and racial boundaries were ...
A dancer performing a contemporary dance piece Indian Contemporary Dancer at 2018 Folklorama Festival, Winnipeg. Contemporary dance [1] is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe.
Since 1987 Danza Contemporanea de Cubahas been under the direction of Miguel Iglesias, who started dancing with the company in 1975. With more than 70 productions in its active repertoire, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba has toured throughout America, Europe, Asia and Africa. This dance is mainly to relax and freely move around in a comfortable way.
El Teatro de Danza Contemporanea de El Salvador (TDC), is a contemporary dance company based in Washington, DC, United States. It is a non-profit institution in residence at Joy of Motion Dance Center. Its youth leadership program was formerly based at Centro Nia. It was led in 2007 by Miya Hisaka Silva. [1]
Venezuelan salsa was born in the barrios of Caracas, Venezuela by street musicians who gather to "rock" the slums. Venezuelan salsa has a unique style compared to other forms of salsa as it incorporates quick rhythmic changes on the bass (as compared to the clave of New York style salsa and the salsa of Puerto Rico, which arguably was influenced by New York City, and opposed to the slower sons ...
Danza is a musical genre that originated in Ponce, a city in southern Puerto Rico. [1] It is a popular turn-of-the-twentieth-century ballroom dance genre slightly similar to the waltz . [ 2 ] Both the danza and its cousin the contradanza are sequence dances, performed to a pattern, usually of squares, to music that was instrumental.
Traditional Tlayacapan Chinelos costume in the La Cereria Museum Face of a Chinelos dancer in Xochimilco, Mexico City. The word "chinelos" is derived from the Nahuatl word "zineloquie" which means "disguised." [1] The dance is one of many to develop after the Spanish conquest as native traditions and rites blended into Christian festivals. One ...