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Explore Mexican Culture in NYC: the dance companies, the bands, the clubs, the festivals, the culture, and the history. Two thirds of the United States was once Mexico. As New York’s third-largest Latin community, we are very much part of the fabric of The City.

Regional Mexican is America’s most popular Latin music. Latin rock started in Mexico. The Whitney Museum said that the biggest influence on American art was not the Europeans, it was the Mexican muralists.

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Calpulli Mexican Dance Company “Monarcas” Celebrates the Contributions and Sacrifices Mexican Immigrants Make for the USA

These are the first stories in a new Mexican folkloric dance series celebrating immigrant contributions. “Company E” celebrates Mexican American soldiers in the US Army. “Viñedos” celebrates Mexican American families who helped build California’s wine industry.

QUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Saturday-Sunday, May 27-28, 2023
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Ballet Hispánico Legacy Gala Hosted by Ana Navarro with Sergio Trujillo Tributes The Miranda Family at The Plaza

Ana Navarro (The View) with Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, On Your Feet!) lead a star-filled tribute to The Miranda Family with dancing to the Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

NEW YORK CITY CENTER
THE PLAZA
Midtown, Manhattan
Thursday, June 1, 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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Ballet Hispánico Leaps into the Top Tier of American Dance Companies

Ballet Hispánico takes the stage with a Forsythe ballet duet, new work by Michelle Manzanales and Omar Román de Jesús, and a company classic by Pedro Ruiz.

The opening night Legacy Gala honors The Miranda Family and features dancing to the Spanish Harlem Orchestra at The Plaza Hotel.

NEW YORK CITY CENTER
Thursday-Saturday, June 1-3, 2023
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Carnegie Hall is One of the World’s Great Concert Halls and Citywide

Classical, jazz and pop music in Midtown, and all kinds of music citywide.

Indian global in Brooklyn 🇮🇳
Saturday, May 6, 2023

South African jazz in Brooklyn 🇿🇦
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Colombian cumbia & vallenato in Times Square 🇨🇴
Friday, June 9, 2023

Mexican children’s music at Carnegie Hall 🇲🇽
Sunday, June 11, 2023

Son Cubano in West Harlem
Saturday, June 17, 2023 🇨🇺

Juneteenth Celebration 🇺🇸
Monday, June 19, 2023

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Mexican Art in NYC

The Mexican Cultural Institute New York is the cultural department of the Mexican Consulate. It regularly presents programs in the Octavio Paz Gallery. mciny.org

Mexican Dance in NYC

Ballet Hispánico "Linea Recta" (Paula Lobo/BH)

Ballet Hispánico is a contemporary dance company with a Mexican American founder, and a strong Mexican choreographer.

Ballet Nepantla "Valentina" (Marty Infante)

Ballet Nepantla is an award-winning contemporary dance company that explores cultural in-between-ness by dancing Mexican folklore as contemporary ballet.

Calpulli "Día de los Muertos" (Julieta Cervantes)

Calpulli Mexican Dance Company is a strong community folkloric dance organization with a touring company and teaching artists.

Dzul Dance "Maya" (Matthew Smith)

Dzul Dance is a New York/Campeche Mexican dance company that fuses dance, aerial arts, contortion, and acrobatics into a unique bridge between contemporary art and historical heritage.

Limón Dance Company "Psalm" (Chistopher Jones/Limón)

Bet you didn’t know that José Limón from Culiacán, Mexico was one of the pioneers of American modern dance. Limón Dance Company and Limón Technique are his legacies.

Mexican Festivals in NYC

Mexican New York

Mexican NYC is New York’s third-largest Latin community, and the largest in the United States.

As of 2020, there are about 321,000 of us, around 13% of New York’s Hispanic community. We grew about 10% since 2010, and are New York’s second fastest growing Latin community. We live mostly in Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Queens.

We are among the world’s hardest working people.

Like other Latins, we are a multiracial mix of Indigenous, European, and African. We are the descendants of the great Olmec, Maya, Aztec, and many other civilizations. Corn, which feeds America, was developed in Mexico, so was chocolate.

Two thirds of North America was Mexico before it was the United States, so we have a lot in common.

Regional Mexican is America’s most popular Latin music. There are many forms including: mariachi, banda, norteño, and tejano. Mexican cumbia has been popular since the 1940s. Latin rock started in Mexico.

The Whitney Museum of American Art said that the biggest influence on American art was the Mexican muralists, not the Europeans. Let that sink in a minute.

Our big festivals include Three Kings Day (January 6), Cinco de Mayo (May 5), Holy Week (varies), Mexican Independence Day (September 16), Day of the Dead (November 2), the Feast of the Virgin of Guadalupe (December 12). Our Posadas Navideñas (Christmas processions) are famous.