- April 24, 2024
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Passionate Danza Perujax dancer. Photos by Anastasia Pagello
Kevin Pinzon and Hispanic American Club member Gladys Tartaglia perform La Cumbia.
Viva Panama Dancer at the Hispanic American Pan Am Annual Diner Dance.
Panamanian Dancers
Panamanian Dancers take a bow after their performance.
Danz Perujax established to share the Peruvian heritage in the United States.
Carmenza Mendoza, Emmil Flores, Delia Perez, Fanny Herrera and Bekis Ezquivel
Hispanic American Club members Gladys Boggs and Jaime Eacheco.
The Hispanic American Club celebrated the Hispanic Heritage Month with dancers from Danza Perujax and Viva Panama USA. The Pan American Celebration is a tradition at the Hispanic American club since 1987. Every year the club showcases a different Hispanic Country with professional dancers, a live DJ and cultural food. This year DJ Fabio played music as club members helped themselves to dishes of rice, beans, roast pork and yucca, a cooked root of the cassava plant.
A special performance by Kevin Pinzon and Gladys Tartaglia in honor of Columbian heritage. Tartaglia had never performed previously and had choreographed the routine from watching Youtube videos on La Cumbia, a traditional Columbian dance. While wearing a traditional Columbian dress she masterfully performed the Columbian folklore dance with her partner.
Danza Perujax, of Jacksonville, perform to establish a presence of the Peruvian people in the United States. They showcase different dances from different regions of Peru such as the coast and mountains. All the members are passionate volunteers with Peruvian heritage. For every song they featured they changed into an appropriate costume. The dances they performed were “El Mayoral” a Negroide song derived from southern Peru, “Valicha” from the mountainous regions, “Yacumama” from the wilderness of Peru and “Backus Amigos por siempre” from northern Peru.
Viva Panama USA, of Jacksonville, is a group of dancers who perform for the preservation of music traditions and folklore from Panama. Their members come from the United States, Latin America and Panama. The group expresses Panamas traditions through music, education, poetry and “Tipico-folklore” dances.
