Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance Website Updates

Brandon · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Hadley, MA

If you are interested in Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance I invite you to visit the website of Grupo Folklórico Palo Santo at http://www.GrupoPaloSanto.com.

Grupo Folklórico Palo Santo is a group of dancers and musicians from in and around the Pioneer Valley region of Western Massachusetts that is dedicated to the study, performance and teaching of Afro-Cuban folkloric dance and music.

Grupo Folklórico Palo Santo has offered ongoing weekly classes in Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance at the Northeast American School of Dance in Northampton continuously since September 2006. The classes are taught by Miguel Periche from Holguín, Cuba; and accompanied by drummers from Grupo Folklórico Palo Santo. The classes cover Orisha dances from Yoruba culture, Bantú dances from Congolese culture, and secular dances such as Rumba, Comparsa & Gaga.

Grupo Folklórico Palo Santo is also a performance group which presents public performances of Afro-Cuban folkloric dance and music; and does workshops and educational events as well.

The Grupo Palo Santo website has specific information about the ongoing weekly Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance classes; past and current performance schedules; and lots of other general information about Afro-Cuban culture, music and dance.

Since the Grupo Palo Santo Website was first introduced a few years ago, extensive photo and video libraries that are well worth exploring have been added to the site.

If you are interested in any African dance, or dance from anyplace else in the African Diaspora; then you will surely be very interested in Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance as well.

We hope that you will visit Grupo Folklórico Palo Santo on the internet at http://www.GrupoPaloSanto.com. And if you are in the New England region; we hope that you will come visit the ongoing weekly Afro-Cuban Folkloric Dance Class; or attend a performance in the future.

Con mucho aché,

Brandon