(WXYZ) — Whether it's Salsa, Merengue or Cha Cha, it would be nearly impossible to go to a LatinX gathering and not see dancing. It's a form of expression embedded ...
Bomba is a genre that is deeply rooted in the African heritage of Puerto Ricans. Historians trace its origins back to the era of slavery on the island, particularly to the celebrations that plantation ...
Growing up in a working-class section of Jersey City, Cynthia Renta learned how to negotiate between many colliding worlds: the Cuban crowd she hung out with in Union City; her fellow Puerto Ricans ...
At the launch of Chicago SummerDance, the city’s summer-long free dance and live music series, Tito Rodriguez will be offering lessons in the Afro-Puerto Rican styles of plena and bomba from 6 to 7 pm ...
Editor’s note: KQED Arts’ award-winning video series If Cities Could Dance is back for a third season! In each episode, meet dancers across the country representing their city’s signature moves. New ...
Sisters Mar and Maria Cruz are preserving the legacy of this dance of resistance. Witness the unstoppable joy of dancing bomba, Puerto Rico’s Afro-Puerto Rican dance of resistance. Meet sisters Mar ...
"Bambulaé be it now,” (Bambulaé sea ya) someone called out from a window on a street in New Haven, Connecticut. To Kevin Díaz Rodríguez´s surprise, the director of Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental ...