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Dance
The Bernalillo Matachines are in the thick of preparing for the San Lorenzo Fiesta, which begins on August 9.
On one hot August evening, A Tribe Called Red turned the National Museum of the American Indian into a dance party.
As curators Adrian Loving and Vikki Tobak explore in their FotoWeekDC exhibition, nowhere did a communal space emerge as acutely as in the city’s underground clubs.
What do the Motown sound and hip-hop music have in common? Each is the musical inspiration for a vital dance tradition that thrives in the African American community of Washington, D.C.
Torres is the founder and executive/artistic director of IFE-ILE, a Miami-based nonprofit organization.
In July, I spent eleven exhilarating days with colleagues from many countries in the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Ethnochoreology.
No doubt about it, Los Angeles is a place infamous for its fractures—pulled apart across an expansive geography by forces of nature and disparities in its social and political economy.
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