Ailey Dance Class: Afro-Cuban  

Ailey Dance Class: Afro-Cuban  

A group of people perform a dance routine in a bright studio with large windows showing a cityscape. One woman in the center wearing a blue headscarf and blue-and-white top leads the dance, while others around her follow. Three drummers on the left play traditional drums, providing the rhythm.

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

A group of people perform a dance routine in a bright studio with large windows showing a cityscape. One woman in the center wearing a blue headscarf and blue-and-white top leads the dance, while others around her follow. Three drummers on the left play traditional drums, providing the rhythm.

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Floor 3, Theater

 December 18 at 1-2 pm, 4-5 pm   

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.