2nd Annual Chicago Latino Dance Festival: Day One

The 2nd AnnualChicago Latino Dance Festival is a three-week celebration of Chicago’s thriving Iberoamerican dance scene. Nineteen Chicago-area groups will take part in this three week event, representing a cross-section of styles, regions and influences including Mexican Aztec dances, the Venezuelan joropo, Panamá’s tamborito, the Puerto Rican bomba and plena, the Maracatu and Coco de Roda from Brazil’s northeast region, and indigenous dances from Ecuador’s Kichwa nations.

The three-week festival will be held from October 17 to November 1 in three venues: Wilbur Wright College, 4300 N. Narragansett Ave. (Thursday, October 17); the Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center, 4048 W. Armitage Ave. (Friday, October 25); and the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn St. (Friday, November 1).

Artists scheduled to perform on Day One:

Nahui Ollin (Mexico)

Ecuador y sus Tradiciones (Ecuador)  

Academia de Danza Aztlan  (Mexico) 

Casa de la Cultura Guatemalteca (Guatemala) 

Huitzillin Danza Mexicana (Mexico)  

Mariachi Voces de Purepero (Mexico)