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Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico Residency: Dancing Plena
Students learning plena dance steps with los vejigantes de Puerto Rico during an interactive performance and presentation at Paul Robeson Community Theme School for the Arts.
Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico Residency: Dancing Plena at Paul Robeson School
Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble performed bomba and plena and presented about the tradition of Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico, an Afropuertorican folkloric tradition. After the interactive performance, participants had the opportunity to dance and…
Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico Residency: Dancing with los Vejigantes
Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico Residency: Dancing with los Vejigantes
Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico Residency: Paul Robeson School Assembly
As part of the 2009 Los Vejigantes de Puerto Rico arts residency program, the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble performed their vejigantes presentation at Paul Robeson Community Theme School for the Arts in New Brunswick, NJ. Students learned about…
Loving Service at Plenitud
While working in the greenhouse at Plenitud, resident Rebekah Sánchez and intern Bri Treppeda take a moment to show their friendship and affection.
Low Water Levels at Lake Guajataca
The water levels at Lake Guajataca were visible low in January 2018, as the lake had already been draining for months after the storm caused a breach in the dam.
Machetes
Student dancing with plastic machetes, practicing the Afro-Brazilian dance/combat form of maculélé
Maculelê
Maculelê is an Afro-Brazilian art form that is part of the practice of capoeira. Maculelê can be practiced with either machetes or sticks, which when struck together become a part of the rhythm and music.
Maculelê
One of the dance forms in the capoeira tradition is called Maculelê. Maculelê can be practiced with either machetes or sticks, which when struck together become a part of the rhythm and music.
Maculelê
The strikes of sticks and machetes in the Maculelê dance match the rhythms of the drums.
Maculélé
Student preparing to dance maculélé, an Afro-Brazilian dance form closely related to capoeira. The history maculélé is closely related to honoring the workers of the sugarcane plantations of Brazil, with the movements of the dance reflecting the…
Maculélé
Students in Professora Amazonas’ children’s class dancing maculélé, an Afro-Brazilian dance form closely related to capoeira.
Maculélé - Agogô
Youth student of Professora Amazonas playing the agogô for students practicing maculélé.
Maculelê - Dancing with Sticks and Machetes
Some dancers use machetes and others use sticks to play the rhythm of Maculelê and in the play fights.
Maculélé - Drum
Youth student of Professora Amazonas playing the drum patterns for students practicing the maculélé movements.
Maculélé - Machete
Similar to capoeira, maculélé is a martial arts and dance combination, which uses sticks and machetes to not only fight, but also keep the rhythm. Students in Professora Amazonas’ class use plastic machetes to learn, practice and play.
Maculélé Dance
Like the capoeira roda, maculélé is played in a circle that includes the dancers/players and the batería or drummers.
Magnolia Street String Band
Magnolia Street String Band started in 2013 as an informal project among some friends, meeting and picking in Highland Park, NJ. Originally there was a cellist. And no banjo. In the summer of 2013, they stumbled into a booking for a local festival…
Magnolia Street String Band - Blue Moon of Kentucky
- Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Magnolia Street String Band performed American bluegrass music and gave a brief history of the genre at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Magnolia Street String Band performed American bluegrass music and gave a brief history of the genre at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Magnolia Street String Band - Brakeman’s Blues - Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018
Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Magnolia Street String Band performed American bluegrass music and gave a brief history of the genre at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Magnolia Street String Band performed American bluegrass music and gave a brief history of the genre at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in, NJ to help raise funds for sustainable grassroots disaster…
Mai & Mai
Mai Yvonne and Mai Bare
Mai Bare and Family
Mai Bare and the boys at her plot of land.
Mai Bare Serving Food
Mai Bare serving food in her kitchen, millet and vegetables.
Mai Nyariri
Mai Nyariri
Mai Yvonne Believed
Mai Yvonne in 2009 knew the vision she is still with me years later.