Alondra Ordaz and other women from the Grupo Folklórico Mexica squeeze into the cramped teachers’ lounge at Minnie Gant Elementary in Long Beach, their makeshift dressing room for the day.

Alexis actually has been dancing ballet folklorico most of her life. That's just an honor right to carry. And I feel like as *** dancer, it's really important um you know, to carry those ...

Geniss Duran, 3, is the littlest dancer in Aida Perez’s Ballet Folklorico classes. Her mom, Yesenia Flores, said the weekly dance lessons are a good way to get her daughter involved in ...

Dancers in the background, left to right, are Evalina Gonzalez, Juliana Barajas, Calixto Cornejo Urdiales and Teya Isaacs. (Maria Trenda/Ballet Folklorico) “There was no dancing program at ...

MEXICANOS HAVE ADOPTED AND ADAPTED SO MANY FORMS, EUROPEAN FORMS, INDIGENOUS FORMS, FOLKLORICO DANCING COMES FROM SEVERAL DIFFERENT REGIONS IN MEXICO AND WITHIN THE REGIONS. INDIVIDUAL STORIES ...

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 ...

Ballet folklorico Aztlan was founded in 1995 and is currently managed by Zenaida Aguero-Reyes. The dance group’s mission is to educate and promote the Mestizo culture through dance. For the last ...

Esteban and Angelica Lopez, brother and sister, have helped turn their passion for the art form into a thriving community-based dance company, Ballet Folklorico Los Mextucas, that now boasts over ...

And then he actually saw students from one of the Latin American folk dancing classes in action. “Once I actually went inside and saw how everyone was dancing and smiling, ... it was a moment ...