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American Airlines Int'l Dance Stage
The heritage and culture of Latin America comes to life on the American Airlines International Dance Stage presented by XTO Energy. You’ll enjoy a multitude of dance exhibitions and performances, as well as have the opportunity to learn Salsa, Tango and Cayangue! Come, enjoy and take home a part of the Americas!
Ballet Folklorico Fort Worth www.dancefolklorico.com
- Folkloric Mexican dance. The Ballet Folklorico Fort Worth’s mission is to encourage appreciation of the Mexican culture through by teaching its traditional dance and music to people of all ages.
Grupo Pakal www.grupopakal.com
- Mayan performing arts, celebrating the rich history and culture of the Maya through ceremonial dance performances, Mayan ballgame exhibitions and interactive workshops.
- Grupo Pakal, Mayan Performing Arts, proudly celebrates Mayan culture through ancient ceremonial dance rituals to traditional native music. Live performances exhibit stunning wardrobe and elaborately feathered headdresses, each a uniquely handcrafted work of art. According to ancient tradition, each design exclusively utilizes natural materials including leather, shell, semi-precious stones, and exotic feathers.
Manzanilla Flamenco www.manzanillaflamenca.org
- Flamenco dances and songs from southern Spain.
- Flamenco is a folk art from Spain: in fact, a whole culture. Furthermore, it is indigent, not to all Spain but to just one part of it-the province of Andalusia. Historically, it has always been the musical outlet of the poor and oppressed. It passed on by oral tradition which the individual artist uses as the basis for his own variations.
Ollimpaxqui Ballet Company
- Traditional dance from Mexico and Latin America
- Ollimpaxqui means joyful movement in Nahuatl, the language f the Aztec. Ollimpazqui was born in Mexico City as Semblanzas de México and México Maxico. They performed in the National Auditorium and in the Palace of the Fine Arts in Mexico City. They came to the United States in 1985 and founded what is now known as Ollimpaxqui Ballet Company.
Ballet Folklorico Azteca www.bfazteca.com
- BFA was established in 1975 and is Fort Worth’s most recognized Mexican folk dance organization. We are a non-profit 501(C) 3, performing arts organization, whose mission is to promote Mexican heritage and encourage multicultural understanding by teaching culture and history through dance and music to youth and adults, thereby preserving traditions and instilling pride.
Canyengue Tango Dallas (Canyengueros De Dallas) www.canyenguetangodallas.com
It is the pure essence of the beginning of tango. Its afro meaning “walking with cadence”. It contains the original tango embrace. It is sensual and enjoyable style of tango with playful gait and rhythm. Its main characteristic is its musicality, as dancing Canyengue precisely means to be in time, walking in the right musical tempo. Its movements are syncopated corresponding to 2 by 4 measure. Canyengue uses body dissociation for the leading, walking with a firm ground contact and a permanent combination of on and off beat rhythm, all these elements are essential to dance any good Tango!
Jim LeMay and Grace Forester, Dance/Instruction
Jim LeMayʼs daughter Rachel had been teaching dance professionally and challenged him to learn some dances for a class reunion. After taking several lessons, he was hooked. He continued training in Ballroom, Latin, and Swing at DanceMakers of Texas, and learned from other studios such as Gocha and Shorena, and Dance Designs. Jim began teaching Latin dances at USA Dance (formerly USABDA) in Fort Worth with Bridget Knudsen. From there, he taught dance and deejayed at hundreds of events at Green Oaks Hotel. He also taught at Frances Lea Dance Center in Fort Worth and Burleson, Gotta Dance in Cleburne, and at the Navy Base in Fort Worth . He is currently teaching at Barbaraʼs Dance Studio in Hurst and at Gilleyʼs in Dallas.
Specializing in Latin, his performances include events at the Fort Worth Jazz Festival and Taps ʽn Tunes
Daniel de Cordoba Bailes Espanoles (Dances of Spain) www.flamencodallas.com
- Flamenco is the product of a centuries-old living-tradition from the Andalusian region of Southern Spain. The roots of Flamenco dancing go back even further, to India, the homeland of gypsies who arrived in Spain about 500 years ago. These gypsies journeyed through southern Asia, Egypt, the Middle East, Central Europe, Southern France, and then Spain.
- In Spain, their music and singing mixed with the Jewish and Arabic influences that abounded at that time. Little by little, Flamenco developed, mostly in the area surrounding the cities of Seville, Jerez, and Cadiz. This nascent Flamenco was usually performed in private, and almost never heard by outsiders.
- In 1842, Flamenco was performed publicly for the first time at the Cafe Cantante Flamenco nightclub in Seville. By the turn of the century, Flamenco was performed only at fairs, fiestas, and tours.
- Such events reached only a fraction of people who are interested in this art form, so today, Flamenco has been taken to concert halls.
- A native Texan, Daniel de Córdoba returned to his home state in 1992 and founded the Daniel de Córdoba Bailes Españoles Company. De Córdoba’s early training included ballet, jazz and Spanish and Flamenco dance in the US, Mexico and Spain. His professional career spans the globe from concert halls in Europe to the Broadway stage. In Spain he worked with leading dance companies including Antonio Ruiz, Roberto Iglesias, Mario Maya and Carmen Mora and Jose Greco. Daniel was partner and a protégé of Mariquita Flores. He has received numerous grants and recognition from the United States, Mexico, Korea and Spain. In Dallas, Daniel directs the company and teaches flamenco.
Tammy M. Gomez, “Palabrazos! Poesia con Poder”
- A local Fort Worth poet that celebrates the power of poetry. A dynamic performance celebrating her culture as Latina and Texan.