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Originally from Santiago de Cuba, Danys “La Mora” Pérez Prades is an internationally renowned master of Afro-Cuban folkloric dance. Pérez is an expert dancer, teacher, dance ethnologist, and choreographer specializing in all the unique styles of Afro-Cuban culture and of her native region of the Oriente province in Eastern Cuba, a region whose cultural richness is attributable to its infusion of Afro- Haitian influences to an already vibrant Afro-Cuban context. At thirteen, she was asked to join the renowned national folkloric ballet company, Cutumba. She toured internationally with the company for eighteen years.