Afro-Cuban with La Mora at Ailey Extension Photo by Whitney Browne
Ailey Extension

New York, NY

Afro-Cuban Class at the Whitney

Dec 18

Date

Dec 18

Location

  • The Whitney Museum of American Art
  • 99 Gansevoort Street
  • New York, NY

Time

1PM
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This class creates a movement environment exploring various forms of traditional Afro-Cuban dance. While practicing different movements representing the Orishas (deities from the African traditions brought to Cuba), participants will delve into the technique’s history and the cultural importance behind each movement. 


Instructor 

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.