Bámbula and Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba: Re-remembering the Place of Dance in Latinx Life

Bowling Green Lawn 1030 Columbia Ave, Claremont

Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor Dr. Jade Power-Sotomayor is a Cali-Rican educator, scholar and performer who works as Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego. Her research interests include: Latinx theatre and performance, Dance Studies, nightlife, epistemologies of the body, feminist of color critique, bilingualism, and intercultural performance in the Caribbean […]

Great Leap’s FandangObon

Bowling Green Lawn 1030 Columbia Ave, Claremont

FandangObon September 13th, 12pm - 1:30 PM Location: Bowling Green Lawn (in front of Balch Auditorium ) Founded by Nobuko Miyamoto and Quetzal Flores, Great Leap’s FandangObon convenes into one circle the participatory music and dance traditions of Fandango of Veracruz, Mexico rooted in African, Mexican and indigenous music; Japanese Buddhist Obon circle dances in […]

Scripps Presents: Levitt on the Lawn Concert Series featuring La Verdad

Bowling Green Lawn 1030 Columbia Ave, Claremont

La Verdad is a premier West Coast Latin music ensemble collectively led by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Gabriel Gonzalez. Gonzalez performed in the 2011–12 North American national tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical In the Heights. This program is supported by Scripps alumna Elizabeth Levitt Hirsch '74, through the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation and co-sponsored […]

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