Dominican culture is one of the Latin cultures that defines New York City today.
Traditional Dominican culture includes merengue and bachata. Contemporary Dominican culture includes urban bachata and dem bow (Dominican reggaeton).
The National Dominican Day Parade is New York City’s big Dominican cultural festival.
Thanks to: Harlem Stage and Hostos Center for sponsoring Dominican culture. 🇩🇴
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Yasser Tejeda Grows Fun, Danceable Latin Alternative From Dominican Folk Roots
His brilliant fusion of Afro-Dominican flavors make you want to dance.
HARLEM STAGE
Manhattanville, West Harlem
Thursday, June 8, 2023
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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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Hostos Center is One of Leading Latin Performing Arts Centers in the Northeast
One of New York’s most adventurous Latin presenters.
MOTT HAVEN, THE BRONX
Merengueras Dominicanas
Friday, June 2, 2023
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Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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Miguel Zenón & Angélica Negrón with American Composers Orchestra, Music of Puerto Rico
Sunday, June 4, 2023
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WORLD PREMIERE
Anton: Una Ópera Boricua
Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
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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 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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La Boom NY is a Popular Latin Night Club with Latin, Urban, Rock, 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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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 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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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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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
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, Plays Hostos Center
Saturday, April 1, 2023
HOSTOS CENTER
Mott Haven, The Bronx
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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 🇩🇴
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Celebrate Dominican Independence Day. ¡Quisqueya!
Monday, February 27, 2023
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
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Santo Domingo Carnival 2023
Sunday, March 5, 2023
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
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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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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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 Goes to Broadway
PREVIEWS Wednesday, November 30, 2022
OPENING Monday, December 19, 2022
HAYES THEATER
Times Square Theater District
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Celebrate New York Dominican Heritage Month!
Saturday, January 21 to February 27, 2023
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Celebrate the Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia, Patron Saint of the Dominican Republic
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia
HIGÜEY, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
Celebrate National Rum Day and the Spirit of the Caribbean!
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
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Mega Bash 2022 Alex Sensation, Maluma, Nicky Jam & More Reggaeton and Latin Trap at Prudential Center
Friday, December 2, 2022
PRUDENTIAL CENTER
Newark, New Jersey
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Remember the Mirabal Sisters, “Las Mariposas”
Friday, November 25, 2022
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The NY Comedy Festival 2022 Makes the Big Apple Laugh
Monday-Sunday, November 7-13, 2022
NEW YORK CITY
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DOC NYC 2022
Wednesday, November 9-17, 2022
IFC CENTER, SVA THEATRE, CINÉPOLIS CHELSEA
West Village, Chelsea, Manhattan
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New York Marathon 2022 is Fun to Run and Fun to Watch
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Staten Island > Brooklyn > Queens
> Manhattan > The Bronx > Manhattan
CENTRAL PARK
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Dominican Film Festival New York 2022
Tuesday-Wednesday, November 1-9, 2022
UNITED PALACE
ALIANZA DOMINICANA CULTURAL CENTER
CINÉPOLIS CHELSEA
COPACABANA
Washington Heights, Chelsea, & Hell’s Kitchen Manhattan
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Havana Film Festival New York 2022
Thursday, November 3-10, 2022
VILLAGE EAST CINEMA
East Village, Manhattan
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Bushwick Film Festival 2022 Features Over 100 Independent Films from Brooklyn and the World
RED CARPET RECEPTION
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Lot 45
Bushwick, Brooklyn
SCREENINGS
Williamsburg Cinemas
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
AWARDS
Monday, November 7, 2022
Lot 45
Bushwick, Brooklyn
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Dominican New York City
New York has been Dominican since its first immigrant, Juan Rodríguez arrived 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 across the Harlem River in the West Bronx.
New York 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.
New York Dominican Fashion
Latin Mondays at Taj
New York 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.
New York Dominican Film
The Dominican Film Festival New York is in November.
New York Dominican Music
Bronx Music Heritage Center
Harlem Stage
Hostos Center
United Palace
New York Dominican Sports
Both the Mets and Yankees have great Dominican baseball players.
New York Dominican Theatre
ID Studio Theater in Mott Haven, The Bronx, has a Dominican Executive Director, Sandie Luna.
Repertorio Español presents some Dominican theatre.
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