Puerto Rican Bomba Dance Workshop!
Schedule
Sun Nov 03 2024 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
11810 Centre Street, Chester, VA, United States, Virginia 23831 | Chester, VA
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Puerto Rican Bomba Dance Workshop!Sunday, November 3, 2024
2:00pm-4:00pm
*Registration is required and space is limited!*
Registration Fee:
Adult: $10 +fees
Student (Age 10-18) $5 +fees
Kid (under 10): FREE *Must be accompanied by an adult.
Learn the fundamentals of Puerto Rican bomba dance with us! Have fun and sweat while you learn bomba rhythms, basic steps, piquetes, regional characteristics and history, with live drumming! We will focus on the rhythms of sicá, cuembé and holandé.
Dating back to the seventeenth century, bomba is a percussion driven artform consisting of drums, maracas, and wooden sticks called cuás. Dancers' improvised movements are followed by the lead drummer and interpret them simultaneously as drum beats.
This is a family-friendly event, and all are welcome! Please wear comfortable shoes and be ready to move. Skirts are not required, but you are welcome to use your own long, full circle skirt or scarf. We will have skirts to borrow for those interested as well.
More About the Artists:
Isha M. Renta López is the founder and director of Semilla Cultural, a non-profit operating across Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia promoting and preserving Puerto Rican heritage through bomba music and dance since 2014. Isha, born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, having moved to Washington DC for schooling and a meteorology career, began her studies of bomba in 2007 with the local organization ‘Raíces de Borinquen’. Since then, Isha has dedicated herself to the preservation and propagation of the Puerto Rican arts and culture through performances, educational programs, and community building. Her latest project, a children's book, is the first in a series of educational books on Puerto Rican bomba. Isha is fully committed to preserve and disseminate her culture to empower the communities through her endless pursuit of knowledge and skill.
Kadencia is a band led by the father-son duo of Maurice Sanabria-Ortiz and Maurice “Tito” Sanabria. The band is dedicated to playing, promoting, and preserving Afro-Puerto Rican music. Kadencia was founded in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico in 2007. Since 2018, Kadencia plays out of its home base in Richmond, Virginia. Kadencia's music and sounds pay homage and follow the traditions of Bomba and Plena from Western Puerto Rico. The lyrics of its songs are narrative and describe various aspects of Puerto Rican society, culture, and traditions. Kadencia utilizes Bomba and Plena's long-rooted storytelling traditions to vividly capture multiple aspects of the Puerto Rican experience on the U.S. territory and on the U.S. mainland.
Kadencia’s full band and small ensemble have played at multiple festivals and concerts including performances at the Lincoln Memorial, Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts, the University of Richmond, the Que Pasa Festival, Norfolk Latino Festival, the Smithsonian Postal Museum, Bridgewater College, the College of William & Mary, the Winter Blues Jazz Fest, and George Washington University. Kadencia’s sophomore album “En Otro Barrio” was released in November 2022. Puerto Rico’s National Foundation for Popular Culture selected “En Otro Barrio” as one of the Top 20 albums by Puerto Rican artists and three songs from the album were featured on the AppleTV+ series “Swagger.” Kadencia is certified by the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture as a performer of traditional Puerto Rican music and is a member of the Virginia Commission for the Arts’ Touring Directory. The band remains active in the community by offering and sponsoring Bomba and Plena workshops and lectures to schools, universities, and performing arts organizations. The band is proud to be a resident artist at the Perkinson Center for the Arts and Education in Chesterfield, Virginia.
Semilla Cultural is a non-profit organization developing and cultivating a community that embraces Puerto Rican culture and arts in the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia region. We focus on raising cultural awareness by teaching, sharing and performing the Puerto Rican musical genre of Bomba, as well as educating the community about the historical events that shaped this music. Semilla Cultural connects with the community by using the arts as a medium of unity and empowerment. We are a grassroots organization committed to educating and representing with pride and respect our love for Puerto Rican arts, culture, and traditions.
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Where is it happening?
11810 Centre Street, Chester, VA, United States, Virginia 23831Event Location & Nearby Stays:
