Danza Fiesta Puerto Rican Dance and Theater

Danza Fiesta is one of the leading Puerto Rican folkloric dance organizations in the Diaspora. 🇵🇷

Danza Fiesta in New York City

Danza Fiesta is Puerto Rican folkloric dance theatre (courtesy) — Danza Fiesta is New York’s Puerto Rican folkloric dance theatre (courtesy)

Hostos Center ~ Mott Haven, The Bronx

Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band; featuring Janis Siegel (Manhattan Transfer), Antoinette Montague (Duke Ellington Orchestra), Sugar Hill Nutcracker star Jennifer Jade Ledesna, and the Danza Fiesta dancers; celebrate Puerto Rico’s greatest composers in the Main Theater at Hostos Center at Hostos Community College in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, June 22, 2024 at 7:30pm. hostos.cuny.edu 🇵🇷 🇺🇸

Hostos Center ~ Mott Haven, The Bronx

Danza Fiesta, New York’s Puerto Rican folk dance company, presents Baile y Teatro Puertorriqueño, the grand finale of the 14th South Bronx Folk Festival; in the Main Theater at Hostos Center in Mott Haven, The Bronx; on Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 3pm. Free with rsvp. hostos.cuny.edu 🇵🇷

By the way, this time of year around November 19 is an important time for Puerto Ricans. The Feast of Our Lady of Providence, Patron Saint of Puerto Rico, is the traditional start of Puerto Rico’s Christmas season, the world’s longest.

Danza Fiesta

Founded in New York City in 1988, Danza Fiesta is a community dance theatre company dedicated to preserving Puerto Rican folk traditions. They are teaching artists who usually march at the front of New York City’s National Puerto Rican Day Parade.

They teach and perform many different Puerto Rican dance traditions including bomba, plena, and seis which is Jíbaro music of the iconic mountain farmers of Puerto Rico. When most Americans think of the island, they think of beaches, but the soul of Puerto Rico lives in the mountain heartland. ¡Jíbaro Soy!

Puerto Rican Culture Is Community

Danza Fiesta performs for the 2021 National Puerto Rican Day Parade

In New York, music, dance and theatre are performed on stage. In Puerto Rico they are performed at home and on the street as part of everyday family life and community celebrations.

Being in Diaspora in the time of social media, young Puerto Ricans are losing their connections with our traditions, so the work of Danza Fiesta is important. They don’t just teach dance theatre, they teach Puerto Rican!

We heard about Danza Fiesta from the island. They are that important. Watching them feels like home!