Danzas Africanas at Café Teatro

Xalapa has a lot going on if you know when and where to look.  The first place to keep an eye on for “up and coming events” are the streets with colorful signs announcing feature events.  It also helps to have friends alerting you because not all performances are easy to learn about.  Here is  a poster announcing a performance [...]

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Coyolillo Street Dancing

from s116.photobucket.com posted with vodpod

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Hey, Let’s Dance — Coyolillo on Fat Tuesday, 2008

 The two young people in the video below seemed to have captured the spirit of “Polka” music, but I will let you judge for yourself –

The above video does not have a photo embedded in it for some reason, but if you click on it you will [...]

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A Family Sunday Event In Our Neigborhood Park

On Sunday afternoon we were off to look for a major ecological park in Xalapa and didn’t know which way to go to pick up a bus to do so.  So, we headed towards our neighorhood park thinking it was the place to catch transport headed in the right direction.  However, the sound of music drew us into ”our” park, and this is what [...]

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Carnaval in Coyolillo Continued — The Court is Installed

As noted in the previous posting, we had the privilege of attending Carnaval in a mountain village northeast of Xalapa named Coyolillo. Roy Dudley, professional photographer and guide extraordinaire, transported us through the sugar cane fields and mountain vistas to the village kind of perched on the mountainside about an hour from Xalapa.
We were not [...]

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