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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


Affordable Art Fair New York (Ehw258/Dreamstime)

Affordable Art Fair New York Fall 2023 is a Great Way to Start Collecting

International commercial art priced under $12,000.

METROPOLITAN PAVILION, Chelsea, Manhattan

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Junta Hispana (Juan Moyano/Dreamstime)

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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NYC Off-Broadway Week (Andrys Lukowski/Adobe)

NYC Off-Broadway Week Fall 2023 Offers 2-for-1 Tickets to Select Latin Shows

La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Oscar Wao, La Golondrina, Radojka at Repertorio Español in Kips Bay. Bite Me at WP Theater in the Upper West Side.

On-Sale Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Performances October 3-15, 2023

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Queens Hispanic Parade (Shiningcolors/Dreamstime)

Queens Hispanic Parade is a Grand Community Celebration

A festival of the diversity, traditions, folklore and unity of the Queens Hispanic community.

Sunday, September 24, 2023
37TH AVENUE
Jackson Heights, Queens

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Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 (Skypixel/Dreamstime)

Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 Isn’t About Spanish Culture Any More

A meditation on what it means to be “Hispanic” in America today.

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Yasser Tejeda Dominican Alternative (Harlem Stage)

Yasser Tejeda Grows Danceable Latin Alternative From Dominican Folk Roots

His brilliant fusion of jazz and rock with Afro-Dominican folk make you want to dance. 🇩🇴 🇭🇹

HARLEM STAGE: Manhattanville, West Harlem
Friday, December 1, 2023

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La Boom NY is a popular Latin nightclub (Dan Talson/Adobe)

La Boom NY is a Popular Latin Night Club with Latin, Urban, and Mexican Nights

Depending on the night you can dance Urban dem bow, hip-hop, reggaeton, trap; Latin bachata, cumbia, merengue, salsa; or Regional banda, cumbia, grupero, or norteño.

WOODSIDE, QUEENS
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José Alberto "El Canario" is a Dominican salsa superstar.

José Alberto “El Canario” Sings Salsa for SummerStage at the Coney Island Amphitheater

A superstar Dominican salsa singer known for his charismatic whistling.

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National Dominican Day Parade (Sergio Reyes/New York Latin Culture Magazine)

National Dominican Day Parade Celebrates “Our History, Our People”

Celebrate Dominican culture and Dominican contributions to the culture of the United States with an awards gala, parade, and after party!

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Yewá in pink watches over the Old San Juan cemetery (Ajitha/Adobe)

Yewá Dances in the Cemetery to Help the Dead Move On

The Cuban Yoruba orisha of fertility, chastity, loneliness, and death; helps us through the last step in life’s journey.

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Continue Reading Yewá Dances in the Cemetery to Help the Dead Move On

Bronx Dominican Parade 2023 (Jose Terrero/Dreamstime)

The Bronx Dominican Parade 2023 Marches Down Grand Concourse

Fordham and Concourse, The Bronx
Sunday, July 30, 2023

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Tribeca Film Festival 2023 (Jon Bilous/Adobe)

Tribeca Film Festival 2023 is Screening Some Latin Films That are Deep Dives into Latin Culture

New York’s big spring film festival stretches genre boundaries with great Latin films, TV, audio storytelling, talks, games, immersive, and music.

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MULTIPLE VENUES
June 7-18, 2023

Continue Reading Tribeca Film Festival 2023 is Screening Some Latin Films That are Deep Dives into Latin Culture

New York Salsa Festival 2023 (EKH Pictures/Adobe)

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

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

Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, Indira Rubiera (Hostos)

Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, & Indira Rubiera Bring Quisqueya to Hostos Center

Three legendary women bring their own flavors of Dominican merengue.

HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
Friday, June 2, 2023
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Continue Reading Merengueras Dominicanas: Ninoshka, Lidia de la Rosa, & Indira Rubiera Bring Quisqueya to Hostos Center

Hostos Center (courtesy)

Hostos Center is One of the Northeast’s Top Latin Performing Arts Centers

One of New York’s most adventurous Latin presenters.

MOTT HAVEN, THE BRONX

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Bronx Week 2023 (Edward Samuel/Adobe)

Bronx Week 2023 Climaxes with the Bronx Week Parade, Food and Arts Festival and Concert

Bronx Week includes a silent disco, skate party, Bronx Walk of Fame induction, parade, food and arts festival, and a concert.

THE BRONX
May 12-21, 2023
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Dance Parade NYC 2023 (RightFramePhotoVideo/Dreamstime)

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

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

Future Fair NYC 2023 contemporary art fair (Mike Orlov/Adobe)

The Future Fair 2023 Brings Diversity to the Art-Industrial Complex

A contemporary art fair that works to bring diverse crop of emerging artists and art galleries into the art-industrial complex.

CHELSEA INDUSTRIAL
Thursday-Saturday, May 11-13, 2023
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Bryant Park Dance Party 2023 (Angelito Jusay/Bryant Park)

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

Chosen Memories installation (Jonathan Dorado/MoMA)

Chosen Memories at MoMA Finds the Needle in the Haystack of Contemporary Latin American Art

The Cisneros Institute show the power of giving.

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Midtown, Manhattan
April 30 – September 9, 2023

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Continue Reading Chosen Memories at MoMA Finds the Needle in the Haystack of Contemporary Latin American Art

International Workers Day (TMLsPhotoG/Adobe)

International Workers Day or Labor Day is a National Holiday in Much of the Latin World

This ancient European spring holiday became associated with the labor movement. The U.S. downplays it, but it’s a major holiday in the Latin world.

Monday, May 1, 2023

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TeatroFest NYC 2023 (tannujannu/Adobe)

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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Xiomara Fortuna, The Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion (Hostos Center)

Xiomara Fortuna, the Queen of Afro-Caribbean Fusion, Plays Hostos Center

Saturday, April 1, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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Carnaval Vegano, La Vega Dominican Carnival (Alkiona25/Dreamstime)

La Vega Carnival 2023 Carnaval Vegano, is the Big Dominican Republic Carnival

Sundays, February 5, 12, 19, 2023
Sunday-Monday, February 26-27, 2023
LA VEGA, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Continue Reading La Vega Carnival 2023 Carnaval Vegano, is the Big Dominican Republic Carnival

Dominican Independence Day at Fortaleza Ozama, Santa Domingo (Maciej Czekajewski/Dreamstime)

Celebrate Dominican Independence Day. ¡Quisqueya!

Monday, February 27, 2023
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Continue Reading Celebrate Dominican Independence Day. ¡Quisqueya!

Santo Domingo Carnival 2023 (Dlrz4114/Dreamstime)

Santo Domingo Carnival 2023

Sunday, March 5, 2023
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
 

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Fashion Designers of Latin America 2023 Fall Winter (Hrubaru/Dreamstime)

Fashion Designers of Latin America 2023 Fall Winter Collections are the Latin Part of New York Fashion Week

Monday, February 13, 2023
NEW YORK CITY
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Continue Reading Fashion Designers of Latin America 2023 Fall Winter Collections are the Latin Part of New York Fashion Week

New York Fashion Week 2023 Fall Winter (Aleksandr Dyskin/Dreamstime)

Latin Roots of New York Fashion Week 2023 Fall Winter Collections

Thursday-Wednesday, February 9-15, 2023
SPRING STUDIOS Tribeca, NYC
AND around town
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Continue Reading Latin Roots of New York Fashion Week 2023 Fall Winter Collections

Juan Pablo Duarte sculpture in Duarte Square (Mark Zhu/Dreamstime)

Remember Juan Pablo Duarte, Founding Father of the Dominican Republic

Friday, January 26, 2024
HUDSON SQUARE, New York City
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
 

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"Between Riverside and Crazy" (Willeye/Dreamstime)

Between Riverside and Crazy Goes to Broadway

PREVIEWS Wednesday, November 30, 2022
OPENING Monday, December 19, 2022
HAYES THEATER
Times Square Theater District
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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.

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