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DUF 2025 “Sew Folklorico” with Maestra Alicia Mendibles Vaca

03.21.2025 Uncategorized 0
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Danzantes Unidos is pleased to announce the participation of Maestra Alicia Mendibles Vaca teaching "Sew Folklorico" at DUF 2025. Maestra Alicia will teach you to sew smarter not harder by utilizing fashion Industry shortcuts to make your costume construction more efficient. This year the project will be a woman's Sinaloa costume. Maestra Alicia Mendibles is a third generation Mexican-American born and raised in Southern California. She started dancing at the age of eight....

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DUF 2025 “Fortaleza y Resiliencia” – Spotlight ON Showcase Concert Emcee Blanca Araceli Soto

03.14.2025 Uncategorized 0
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Over 500 performers from 33 dance companies from California, Washington & Nevada will showcase their best choreographies at one of DUF’s Showcase Concerts on April 11 & 12 at Warnors Center for the Performing Arts at 6 p.m. each evening. The lineup for the Showcase Concerts will be announced on Sunday, March 16  on the Danzantes Unidos website.  Tickets for general seating cost $30 and can be purchased online at www.danzantes.org/tienda or...

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FSF 2024 Oaxaca – Erwin Vale Lopez

09.10.2024 Uncategorized 0
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Erwin Vale Lopez TALLER: DANZA DE LA PLUMA Originally from the Villa de Zaachila, Oaxaca, Maestro Erwin Vale Lopez has been a performer of the Danza de La Pluma since 1999 and as a Danza de La Pluma director for fifteen years.  In 2009, he founded the Cosijoeza Danza de La Pluma project integrating community children, youth and adults residing in the Villa de Zaachila. His professional studies in Mexican Folk Dance took place at...

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FSF 2024 Oaxaca – Lorena Ximena Morales Sangines

09.10.2024 Uncategorized 0
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JARABE MIXTECO – Lorena Ximena Morales Sangines Originally from the city of Oaxaca, with a career spanning 18 years, Maestra Lorena Ximena Morales Sangines is a folk dance teacher and dancer. Trained at the CEDART “Miguel Cabrera” school, she is a member of the Mexican Dance Center and has participated in various congresses and in-person folk dance courses. She currently works at the “Heberto Castillo” Culture House in the municipality of San Jacinto...

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DUF 2024 “Seguimos Adelante” – Festival Artist, Lalo Garcia

03.26.2024 Uncategorized 0
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Danzantes Unidos is deeply appreciative of the return of Festival Artist, Lalo Garcia for the creation of the 45th Anniversary festival logo. Born in La Cieneguita, a small rancho in the state of Michoacan, Mexico, and raised since the age of 13 in the San Fernando Valley, north of downtown Los Angeles, celebrated artist Lalo Garcia has spent 35 years immersed in the world of art. Garcia’s love for his native culture combined with...

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DUF 2024 FEATURED WORKSHOP – “Sew Much Fun” with Maestra Alicia Mendibles

02.27.2024 Uncategorized 0
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Maestra Alicia Mendibles is a third generation Mexican-American born and raised in Southern California. She started dancing at the age of eight. It was in the sixth grade that she began to form dance groups at her schools. She studied Mexican Folklorico under the direction Lily Aguilar and Maria Quiroz. She has shared the stage with many performers including: Linda Ronstadt, Lalo Guerrero, Mariachi Cobre, and Mariachi Sol de Mexico. Maestra Alicia envisioned...

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DUF 2024 “SEGUIMOS ADELANTE” – Maestro David “TexoMazatl” Vargas

01.27.2024 Uncategorized 0
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David “Texomazatl” Vargas, is a kind, yet demanding Elder within the Danza Azteca genre.  David Vargas, also known as Texomazatl (Blue Deer) among traditional Aztec dance circles, founded  the original Tezkatlipoka Aztec Dance in 1988 in San Jose, CA which is still active today. Texomazatl has led the group as its Executive/Artistic Director as a ceremonial dance group among traditional circles, as well as a community-based performing arts group. For the past 35...

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DUF 2024 “SEGUIMOS ADELANTE” – Maestra Amalia Viviana Basanta Hernandez

01.23.2024 Uncategorized 0
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Danzantes Unidos is delighted to welcome back the renowned Mexican Folklorico dancer and choreographer, Amalia Viviana Basanta Hernandez to DUF 2022.  Maestra Basanta Hernandez was born in Mexico City, the daughter of Mexican choreographer, Amalia Hernandez, and Argentine writer, Joaquin Basanta Crece.  She began her dance training at the age of five, studying classical ballet under Nellie Happee. At age thirteen, Ms. Basanta Hernandez joined the National Ballet of Mexico under the...

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DUF 2024 “SEGUIMOS ADELANTE” – Maestra Carmen Obdulia Espinoza Beltran

01.13.2024 Uncategorized 0
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A native of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, Maestra Carmen Obdulia Espinoza Beltran demonstrated an early artistic aptitude for dance and initiated her studies as a member of the folklorico company, Grupo del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS). To further amplify her studies, in 1972 she began her training in La Academia de la Danza Mexicana (at that time known as the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura) continuing her professional studies...

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