The Georgetown Americas Institute hosted Amalia Viviana Basanta Hernández, the artistic director of Ballet Folklórico de México, at the Gonda Theater on Aug. 28 to discuss the importance of dance as a ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Colorful skirts swirl and swish. Loud heel stomps and toe taps reverberate off the floor to the walls. Bright flowers tucked in ponytails whisk around as the dancers spin.

While practicing a folkloric dance from Veracruz, Mexico, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, at Henry Maier Festival Park, a group of dance students balanced candles on their heads while making quick steps and ...

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With a dizzying wave of rhythms, colors and sounds that express the living image of México, ballets have preserved for years one of the oldest traditions in Mexican culture: folklore dance. Since ...

Danae Torres twirls a Jalisco ribbon dress. Photo by Amanda López The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. When Connie Benavidez’s teenage daughters ...

MESA, AZ — Ballet Folklórico Quetzalli started 18 years ago in Chandler. Since then, it's been teaching Mexican folklórico dances to people of all ages, from as young as 18 months to as old as 67 ...

The San Diego Ballet version of “Giselle” has moved from Europe, where it premiered in 1841, to Spanish Colonial California, where a fragile peasant girl falls in love with a wealthy man who is ...

“Dancing in the Shadow of Amalia” could be the subtitle of all Mexican ballet folklorico concerts, so much do they owe to Amalia Hernandez, who invented the form and whose company in Mexico City still ...

From a young age, choreographer Amalia Hernández knew she was going to be a dancer. However, the classical training at Mexico’s National School of Dance didn’t feel right. There was no emotion, no ...

A local Southwest Detroit dance troupe keeps Mexican folkloric dance alive in Mexicantown. One Detroit contributor Daijah Moss takes a trip to Southwest Detroit to learn more about Ballet Folklorico ...

When Vanessa Ramírez heard mariachi music for the first time when she was seven years old, her heart began to beat in a way she never imagined it could. Walking the streets of Venice, California, she ...