with La Mora

Saturday, February 25, 2023 |  3:30pm - 5:00pm

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African culture is deeply interwoven into the history of Cuba and integral to its culture.

Derived from the African religion Yoruba, Afro-Cuban dance is linked to enslaved West Africans in Cuba who used music and dance as a form of self-expression. Practitioners of Yoruba believe in many different deities called orishas. Each orisha symbolizes a different part of our lives and each has a characteristic movement style represented in Afro-Cuban dance.

Join expert dancer, teacher, choreographer, dance ethnologist, and activist Danys “La Mora” Pérez and immerse yourself in Afro-Cuban culture and history with an introduction to Afro-Cuban dance.

Originally from Santiago de Cuba, Danys "La Mora" Pérez Prades is an internationally renowned master of Afro-Cuban folkloric dance. La Mora specializes 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.