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“While one is alive, one should love as much as one can.” ~ Rita Moreno 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇵🇷
New York City Center is One of NYC's Premiere Homes for Dance and Theatre
Lyon Opera Ballet, contemporary dance 🇫🇷 🇬🇷 🇺🇸
Flamenco Festival, Mañuel Liñán, Eva Yerbabuena, El Farru, Juan Tomás de la Molía, Estévez / Paños y Compañía, Sara Baras 🇪🇸
MIDTOWN, Manhattan
Pablo Mayor Colombian Folkloric Jazz
BRONX MUSIC HALL, Melrose, The Bronx 🇨🇴
Repertorio Español is New York's Busiest Spanish-Language Theater
La casa de Bernarda Alba, Spanish drama 🇪🇸
La gringa, Puerto Rican comedy 🇵🇷
La ternura, Spanish comedy 🇪🇸
En el tiempo de las mariposas, Dominican drama 🇩🇴
La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao, Dominican American drama 🇩🇴
KIPS BAY, Manhattan
Bronx Music Hall Shows The Best of The Bronx
Pablo Mayor, Colombian jazz 🇨🇴
“Nosotros, la música” Cuban film 🇨🇺
MELROSE, The Bronx
Guggenheim New York
Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival, Naomi Tunaki tap, Kukai Dantza Basque Flamenco 🇯🇵 🇪🇸
Guggenheim Pop, iconic and contemporary pop art 🇩🇴 🇮🇹 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan
FIFA World Cup 2026 Draw Sets Up Soccer Matches in the USA, Mexico, and Canada
North America 🇨🇦 🇨🇼 🇭🇹 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇺🇸
South America 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇾 🇺🇾
Africa 🇩🇿 🇨🇻 🇪🇬 🇬🇭 🇨🇮 🇲🇦 🇸🇳 🇿🇦 🇹🇳
Europe 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 🇪🇸
Juan Pablo Duarte is the Founding Father of the Dominican Republic
JUAN PABLO DUARTE SQUARE, Hudson Square, Manhattan 🇩🇴 🇺🇸
ALTAR DE LA PATRIA, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 🇩🇴
La Altagracia is the Patron Saint of Dominican Americans
HIGÜEY, Dominican Republic ~ Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia. 🇩🇴
North Americans
Caribbean Americans
South Americans
European Americans
African Americans
New York and the world’s leading Latin, Indigenous, European, African, Jewish, and Global cultural organizations support us because they support you.
Let’s support them back! Thank you! ¡Gracias ustedes!
Puerto Rican NEA Jazz Master Eddie Palmieri (God Bless) explained Latin in the Americas and the Latin influence on United States culture in the simplest way:
The Spaniard brought the African
Eddie Palmieri at the 92nd Street Y in 2016 🇵🇷
The African put everyone to dance
In the States, they took away the drum,
and we got the blues“
The blues is the root of most American (and some Caribbean) popular music and dance, including: jazz, rhythm and blues, country, rock, reggae, soul, funk, disco, house, hip hop, reggaeton, and trap. Even American country music originates in Mother Afrika.
The Latin family has created music, dance, theatre, film, art, and food that is uniquely American, and loved around the world. It’s because Latin culture brings people together and turns the blues into joy. ¡Aguanilé!
La Llamada de los Tambores
(The Call of the Drum is also The Call to Dance)
Bienvenido a el areíto en el batéy del pueblo Latino. Somos uno 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 starting in the patio. 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 Bomba Puertorriqueña Sicá.
“E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, le-le-le“
Loíza Aldea, Loíza, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
La salsa 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-le-le“
La Marina, Matanzas, Cuba 🇨🇺
Rumba is what the first Africans in Cuba did, as soon as their hands were free.
“Yo Soy Ogun Balenyo”
Los Congos, Villa Mella, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana 🇩🇴
Palo, even more than merengue, is the folk music of La República Dominicana.
“Diki riki riki riki, Diki riki riki riki, Diki riki riki riki, Di, Diki ri”
Capotillo 42, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana 🇩🇴
Dembow is the sound of Dominican streets.
“Ay, ay, Ay-ay“
San Juan de Ulúa, Veracruz, México 🇲🇽
“Canta y no llores…”
“Aí aí aí“
San Basilio de Palenque, Bolívar, Colombia 🇨🇴
“Ajai, al son de los tambores…”
“Bim Bom, Bim Bim, Bom Bom“
Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil 🇧🇷
“O meu coração pediu assim, só…”
“I like to be in América“
San Juan Hill, New York City 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇱
“Okay, buy me in América,
Everything free in América
For a small fee in América…”
¡ A-G-U-A-N-I-L-É !
El Barrio, Loisaída, Bushwick, y El Bronx 🇵🇷
“Aguanilé” is a healing prayer to Ogun.
Who answers the call? The community responds!
We are defined by family and community.
Dios te bendiga
(God bless you)
¡Aché!
(Amen)
“E-le-le, le-le-le…”
(We start and end the dance with a call to Eleguá, God’s messenger, because dance is how we pray)