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Dominican Culture

Dominican culture is one of the Latin cultures that is defining New York City today. Dominicans are NYC’s largest Latin community (since 2019).

Traditional Dominican culture includes merengue and bachata. Contemporary Dominican culture includes fashion, urban bachata and dem bow (Dominican reggaeton).

The National Dominican Day Parade is New York’s big Dominican cultural festival.

Thanks for sponsoring Dominican Culture:
Harlem Stage
Hostos Center

Dominican Culture in New York City

Junta Hispana 2023 is a Family Festival of Latin Culture in Queens

Around a quarter million people enjoy this casual festival of Latin food, music, dance, beauty, and folklore from 20 Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.

FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK
Queens

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New York Salsa Festival 2023 Features Willie Colón, El Gran Combo, Victor Manuelle, Oscar D’Leon and Merengueros Oro Solido

Willie Colón, El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico, Victor Manuelle, Grupo Niche, Oscar de Leon, Jerry Rivera, Tony Vega, Edgar Joel, merengueros Oro Sólido backed merengueros Oro Sólido, backed by a great salsa band directed by Bobby Allende and Marc Quiñones. 🇵🇷 🇩🇴 🇨🇴 🇻🇪

BARCLAYS CENTER: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Saturday, June 10, 2023

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Dance Parade NYC 2023 DanceFest Gets over 10,000 New Yorkers Dancing in the Streets

DANCE PARADE
Chelsea, Greenwich Village, East Village

African, Afrobeat, Afro-Cuban, Bhangra, Bollywood, Bomba, Break Dancing, Caporales, Carnival, Dancehall, Flamenco, Folkloric, Hip-Hop, House, Jazz, Latin, Majorette, Mexican, Moko Jumbies, Reggae, Salay, Salsa, Samba, Soca, Street, Tammurriata, Tap, Tarrantella, Tinkus, and more. 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇳🇬 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇹🇹

DANCEFEST Tompkins Square Park
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Saturday, May 20, 2023

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Bryant Park Dance Party 2023 gives Free Dance Lessons Followed by Live Music for Dancing!

Talia Castro-Pozo hosts bachata, cumbia, salsa, swing, and tango dance lessons followed by live music for dancing. FREE!

La Excelencia salsa, Wed, May 3
Pedro Giraudo tango, Thu, May 4
Afro-Andean Funk cumbia, Wed, May 10
Charenee Wade’s Band of Swing, Thu, May 11
Valerio bachata, Wed, May 17
Santiago y la Orquesta salsa, Thu, May 18

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TeatroFest NYC 2023 is 210 Performances of 20 Latin Productions in 9 Latin Theaters Across New York City

A citywide festival of Latin drama, dance and music produced by the Alliance of Teatros Latinos NY.

MANHATTAN
Teatro Circulo
IATI Theater
INTAR Theatre
LATEA Theatre
Repertorio Español
Teatro SEA

THE BRONX
Pregones Theater/PRTT

QUEENS
Thalia Spanish Theater

March 1 – April 30, 2023
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Dominican NYC

New York has been Dominican since our first immigrant, Juan Rodríguez set up NYC’s first colmado (store) in 1613.

As of 2019, our Dominican community is New York City’s largest Latin community.

New York’s Little Dominican Republic is in Washington Heights. Dyckman St is a popular Dominican street. We also live in the West Bronx.

Dominican Dance

You can dance some merengue and bachata at Latin Mondays at Taj in the Flatiron District.

You can dance some merengue and bachata at Gonzalez y Gonzalez Mexican restaurant and salsa night club in Greenwich Village.

Dominican Fashion

Hernan Lander

Oscar de la Renta

FDLA, Fashion Designers of Latin America

Dominican Festivals

National Dominican Day Parade

Dominican Heritage Month New York is January 21 to February 27. It’s the time of patron saint La Altagracia, Dominican Independence, founding father Juan Pablo and Dominican Carnival.

Dominican Film

The Dominican Film Festival New York is in November.

Dominican Music

Bronx Music Heritage Center

Harlem Stage

Hostos Center

United Palace

Dominican Sports

Both the Mets and Yankees have great Dominican baseball players.

Dominican Theatre

ID Studio Theater in Mott Haven, The Bronx, has a Dominican Executive Director, Sandie Luna.

Repertorio Español presents some Dominican theatre.

The Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean country in the Greater Antilles. It was the Indigenous Taíno heartland, called “Quisqueya” (Mother of All Lands). Spanish colonizers called it Hispaniola (Little Spain).

The west side of the island is Haiti. We are taught to deny it, but many Dominicans are Haitian descent and a lot of Dominican culture has Haitian roots.