Indigenous, European, and African Culture from the Barrio to Broadway
What’s up? ¿Qué tal? ¿Qué bolá? Sak pase? ¿Qué lo qué? Kilode! Ça va? Hoe gaat het? ¿Quiubo? Tudo bem? Imaynallam! ¡Che! Güasa! Now let’s get down.
Tania León is a Cuban Pulitzer Prize-winner and Kennedy Center honoree. Dance Theatre of Harlem’s founding Music Director scored their signature ballet, Geoffrey Holder’s Trinidadian wedding ballet, “Dougla” and others. The New Music Advisor at the New York Philharmonic is one of the forces behind the new music classical music renaissance happening in New York City right now! 🇨🇺
“Ven ven, Iroko, ven, ven”
Coming Soon ~ The Birth of Melvis Santa & Jazz Orishas (Instagram) 🇨🇺
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Tania León and Mitsuko Uchida Discuss How Timeless Music is Relevant Today at Carnegie Hall 🇨🇺 🇯🇵
African Diaspora International Film Festival 2024 Screens Films By and About Women, the Guardians of Culture 🇦🇺 🇧🇩 🇹🇩 🇪🇹 🇭🇹 🇲🇦 🇼🇸 🇺🇸
Teatro Fest NYC is a Festival of Hispanic Theatre 🇨🇱 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇾 🇻🇪
Worm Moon is a Native American Name for the March Full Moon
Holi is the Hindu Spring Festival of Colors and Love 🕉️
Annunciation Celebrates Archangel Gabriel Telling Mary She Was Pregnant ✝️
Holy Week is the Christian Spring Festival ✝️
Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian Nobel Prize for Literature Winner 🇵🇪
Good Friday is a Christian Commemoration of the Crucifixion ✝️
Easter is the Christian Spring Festival ✝️
Cesar Chavez Day Honors the Great Mexican American Labor Leader 🇲🇽
Ramadan is the Muslim Sacred Month of Family, Community, and Charity ☪️
Latin Music is the Rhythm of Life
Tania León, the Cuban Pulitzer Prize-winning Classical Composer and Conductor, Curates Contemporary Classical Music From Around the World at Carnegie Hall 🇨🇺 ~ 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇿🇦
Latin Dance is How We Pray
Ensemble Modern Plays International Contemporary Chamber Music Curated by Tania León at Carnegie Hall 🇩🇪 ~ 🇨🇺 🇮🇹 🇲🇽 🇿🇦
Latin Theatre is Real Magic
Leyenda Plays Latin Pop Classics with Bridget Kibbey harp, Samuel Torres percussion, and Louis Arques clarinet; for Carnegie Hall Citywide at Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church in Hudson Heights 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
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Oye, you are crossing the Kalûnga
The Call of The Drum
Bienvenido a el areíto en el batéy del pueblo Latino. Somos unidos en el tambor.
Escucha la llamada. La rumba ya se forma en el solar.
Yo prendo una vela.
(Welcome to the community gathering in the sacred circle of the Latin people.
We are one in the drum. Listen to the call. The party is forming in the field. I lit a candle.)
Bom, bom, bom, ba-ta-ba-ta, ba, ta-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
Bom-ba, ta-ba, Bom-ba, ta-ba
This call of the drum is the bomba Puertorriqueña sicá rhythm.
Singing begins with the “Diana,” the call to prayer that asks for spiritual connection before we dance,
because by tradition, dance is how we pray.
“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, le-le-le“
Loíza Aldea, Loíza, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
“E-le, le-le, le-le-le-le“
La Marina, Matanzas, Cuba 🇨🇺
“Dirikirikiriki, Dikiri“
Capotillo 42, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
“Ay, ay, Ay-ay“
San Juan de Ulúa, Veracruz, Mexico 🇲🇽
“Aí aí aí“
San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar, Colombia 🇨🇴
“Bim Bom, Bim Bim, Bom Bom“
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷
“I like to be in América“
San Juan Hill, New York City 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱
{{{ Dudamel arrives in 2026! }}} 🇻🇪
¡ A-G-U-A-N-I-L-E !
El Barrio, Loisaida, Bushwick, y El Bronx🗽
Who answers the call? The community responds.
¿Oye Cómo Va?
We are Indigenous, European, African, Jewish, Arab, Asian, and everything in between.
“¿Oye cómo va? Mi ritmo, bueno pa’ bailar, mulata.
Hey, how’s it going? My rhythm is good for dancing, Latina.
“Andando, andando, andando…”
(Walking, walking, walking…)
“Yo me tiro pa’l solar”
(I leap into the field.)
Dios te bendiga
(God bless you)
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