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| Folklorico Dance Company to Bring Vibrant Show to Angels Camp |
Imagine a stage full of colorfully costumed dancers using intricate footwork and synchronized moves that are steeped in Mexican tradition, and you have an idea of what will take place March 8 in the Bret Harte Theatre of Angels Camp. Starting at 3:00 pm, the Calaveras Arts Council’s “Ovations” performing arts series will present “Raices de mi Tierra”, an energetic troupe of 16 dancers accompanied by a live Mexican band. For 14 years “Raices” has been active preserving and celebrating traditional and contemporary Mexican dance through teaching and touring. They have danced on the stages of many festivals and are recognized for excellence statewide. ....
The action-packed dances that Raices perform originate from many different states of Mexico, each one unique with its own steps and costumes. For example, on March 8 they will be performing the regional dance from the state of Chiapas, which was recently featured at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. Another dance will be the Sinaloa Suite backed up with live music by Banda Perla Azul. All of the dances in the two-hour performance are described as “highly entertaining and tons of fun.” It doesn’t hurt that their elegant artistic costumes are valued at nearly $30,000.
Founding Artistic Director is Roxana Reyes Borrego of Sacramento who was influenced by her mother, a Folklorico instructor, and her father, a well-known mariachi member. She studied with many famous dancers, and began teaching as a student instructor at UC Davis at the age of 19, then at CSU Chico and Sacramento, in Oklahoma, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. She founded the first Folklorico / Physical Education Dance Class in Sacramento at Sacramento High School. When Roxana and Jose Borrego first established Raices, homebase was at CSU Sacramento where adult dancers could share their love of Mexican dance. Now, the new Sacramento Cultural Arts Center is where the Borrego’s have a school of dance that offers classes in adult and children’s Folklorico.
The $25 per person tickets are available online at www.highsierratickets.com, or, if not sold out, at the door the theatre the day of the concert starting at 2:30 pm. Tickets for youth to 18 are $10. For more information about this concert, contact the non-profit Calaveras Arts Council at (209)754-1774, or check out www.calaverasarts.org. The next performance in the Ovations series will be on Saturday, March 28 at 3:00 pm, featuring the Mother Lode Friend of Music Orchestra with a guest conductor and soloists from the San Francisco Symphony performing Mozart and Beethoven selections.
03/08/2009
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