What’s up? ¿Todo bien? Tudo bem? ¿Qué bolá? Ça va? Sak pase? ¿Qué lo que? Let’s get down!
Hear the call?.. .. … ..
E-le-le, le-le-le; A la-la, la-la-la … ..
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Latin Dance is How We Pray
Ballet Hispánico Leaps into the Top Tier of American Dance Companies
NEW YORK CITY CENTER in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thu-Sat, June 1-3, 2023. nycitycenter.org
Drums Along the Hudson is a Native American & Multicultural Celebration of Drum, Song & Dance
INWOOD HILL PARK, Sun, June 4. 🇮🇳 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇱🇰 🇺🇸
Latin Music is the Rhythm of Life
Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, & Indira Rubiera, Whip up the Stage with the NCue Band
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx: Friday, June 2. hostos.cuny.edu 🇩🇴
ACO SONiC Festival with Miguel Zenón and Angélica Negrón Creates Avant-Garde Puerto Rican Classical Music at Hostos
HOSTOS CENTER, Mott Haven, The Bronx: Sunday, June 4. hostos.cuny.org 🇵🇷 🇨🇴 🇮🇱 🇺🇸
Yasser Tejeda Grows Fun, Danceable Latin Alternative from Dominican Folk Roots
HARLEM STAGE in Manhattanville, West Harlem, Thursday, June 8. harlemstage.org 🇩🇴 🇭🇹
Blue Note Jazz Festival Brings Latin Jazz Legends to NYC
MULTIPLE VENUES May 31 – July 2: 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇯🇲
Latin Books are the Poetry of Love
Isabel Allende “The Wind Knows My Name”
One of the world’s most widely-read Spanish-language authors and most influential Latinas, discusses her new book about children in migration, “The Wind Knows My Name,” with MSNBC anchor and “Latina to Latina” podcast host Alicia Menendez. 🇨🇱 🇨🇺
92ND STREET Y, NEW YORK Upper East Side, Tuesday, June 6. 92NY.org
Latin Film is Not Hollywood
The Little Mermaid Looks Like Me
CITYWIDE, Friday, May 26. 🇺🇸
Human Rights Watch Film Festival Brings Global Problems into Focus
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER & IFC CENTER in the West Village; May 31 – June 11.🇧🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇷 🇮🇹 🇺🇬
Brooklyn Film Festival Screens Stories About Life & Those Who Live It
WINDMILL STUDIOS, Greenpoint & WYTHE HOTEL, Williamsburg, June 2-11. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇩 🇨🇬 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🇮🇹 🇰🇪 🇲🇽 🇵🇹 🇱🇨 🇪🇸
Latin Parades are Carnival American-Style
The 2023 Celebrate Israel Parade Marches to Renew the Hope
FIFTH AVENUE, Midtown to the Upper East Side, Sunday, June 4. 🇮🇱
The 2023 Philippine Independence Day Parade Features a Filipino Street Fair and Cultural Festival
MADISON AVENUE, Murray Hill, Kips Bay & NoMad, Sunday, June 4. 🇵🇭
New Queens Pride Parade 2023 Covers Jackson Heights in Rainbows
37TH AVENUE, Jackson Heights, Queens; Sunday, June 4. 🏳️🌈
New York’s National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2023 Celebrates Música, Cultura y Alegría
FIFTH AVENUE, Midtown ~ Sunday, June 11 🇵🇷
Latin Art is the New Black
“Chosen Memories” at MoMA Finds the Needle in the Haystack of Contemporary Latin American Art
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Midtown, Manhattan, through September 9
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92nd Street Y, New York is a cultural center where legends are made. It serves all communities from a foundation of Jewish values.
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company is a community folkloric dance organization with a touring company and teaching artists.
Carnegie Hall presents classical, jazz, and pop in one of the world’s legendary concert halls, and all kinds of music Citywide.
The CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute preserves and promotes the culture of the entire African Diaspora.
Flushing Town Hall presents the incredible diversity of Queens, the most diverse place on the planet.
Harlem Stage is the performing arts center of the Harlem Renaissance 3.0.
Hostos Center is one of the Northeast’s premiere performing arts centers for Latin culture.
Little Island is a performing arts center in a park built on a pier in the Hudson River.
New York City Center, New York’s original performing arts center, is now one of New York’s premiere musical theatre and dance theatre venues.
Robert Browning Associates was one of the very first world music (now called global music) pioneers.
Oye, you are crossing the Kalûnga
Now Let’s Dance
Bienvenido a el areíto en el batéy del pueblo Latino. Somos unidos en el tambor. Escucha la llamada. La rumba ya se forma en el solar. Yo prendo una vela.
(Welcome to the community gathering in the sacred circle of the Latin people. We are one in the drum. Listen to the call. The party is forming in the field. I lit a candle.)
The rhythm starts and the call to prayer asks for spiritual cleansing before we dance, because by tradition, dance is how we pray.
Bom, bom, bom, ba-ta-ba-ta, ba, ta-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ba-ta, Bom-ba, ba-ta
Bom-ba, ba-ta, Bom-ba, ba-ta
“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, le-le-le“
Villa Palmeras, Santurce, San Juan 🇵🇷
“E-le, le-le, le-le-le-le“
La Marina, Matanzas 🇨🇺
“Dirikirikiriki, Dikiri“
Capotillo 42, Santo Domingo 🇩🇴
“Ay, ay, Ay-ay“
San Juan de Ulúa, Veracruz 🇲🇽
“Aí aí aí“
San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar 🇨🇴
“Bim Bom, Bim Bim, Bom Bom“
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷
“I like to be in América“
San Juan Hill, Lincoln Center 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱
{{{ Dudamel arrives in 2026! }}} 🇻🇪
¡ A-G-U-A-N-I-L-E!
El Barrio, Loisaida, Bushwick y El Bronx🗽
Who answers the call? The community responds.
¿Oye Cómo Va?
Latin is the great mix of Indigenous, European, African, Jewish, Arab, Asian, and everything in between. All are welcome here.
“¿Oye cómo va? Mi ritmo, bueno pa’ bailar, mulata.
Hey, how’s it going? My rhythm is good for dancing, Latina.
“Andando, andando, andando…”
(Walking, walking, walking…)
“Yo me tiro pa’l solar”
(I enter the field.)
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