MAZARTE Dance Company
MAZARTE opens the 2014 NYC International Mariachi Festival, setting the evening’s fun and exuberant tone with their high energy dance and furling indigenous dresses. Rocking Symphony Space with the nostalgia and history that explodes with each step of traditional regional ballet folkloricos, MAZARTE opening dance piece gets the evening off to a resounding start, matching the grand mariachi music and traditional folkloric dance that ensued.
MAZARTE is an artistic organization that introduces New York’s urban communities to the unique work of dance, history and art from all regions of indigenous Mexico. Mazarte’s states that their goal is to create a union between dance, research, and indigenous art forms in order to promote Mexico’s rich and diverse indigenous cultural heritage, bringing its history to life.
MAZARTE approach to indigenous art and culture is also holistic, with each dance program and refined regalia reconnecting New York’s Mexican American communities to the indigenous regions of Mexico they left behind. MAZARTE states that each program is designed around original dance movements that stay true to the essence of old Mexican traditions. Each dance program represents a different region of Mexico and showcases the wide range of cultural influences in the country through its dances and traditions. Their current running dance program focuses on the Sierra Norte region in the state of Puebla, Mexico and is performed by a team of professional and energetic dancers from all over the United States and Mexico.
For 3 hours that very special evening at Symphony Space, audiences sang and danced the night away with friends and family to an effervescent experience of the world's finest Mariachis performing the best of mariachi music, with amazing ballet folkloricos and a spectacular finale with more than 300 charros on Stage.
Read MoreMAZARTE is an artistic organization that introduces New York’s urban communities to the unique work of dance, history and art from all regions of indigenous Mexico. Mazarte’s states that their goal is to create a union between dance, research, and indigenous art forms in order to promote Mexico’s rich and diverse indigenous cultural heritage, bringing its history to life.
MAZARTE approach to indigenous art and culture is also holistic, with each dance program and refined regalia reconnecting New York’s Mexican American communities to the indigenous regions of Mexico they left behind. MAZARTE states that each program is designed around original dance movements that stay true to the essence of old Mexican traditions. Each dance program represents a different region of Mexico and showcases the wide range of cultural influences in the country through its dances and traditions. Their current running dance program focuses on the Sierra Norte region in the state of Puebla, Mexico and is performed by a team of professional and energetic dancers from all over the United States and Mexico.
For 3 hours that very special evening at Symphony Space, audiences sang and danced the night away with friends and family to an effervescent experience of the world's finest Mariachis performing the best of mariachi music, with amazing ballet folkloricos and a spectacular finale with more than 300 charros on Stage.
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