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Destroyed Grid - Adjuntas
Just a couple of blocks from the square in Adjuntas. The electric grid was almost completely destroyed in the central mountains of Puerto Rico, with much of it remaining unrepaired and in disarray for months following the storm in towns like…
Destroyed Electric Grid - Adjuntas
Just a couple of blocks from the square in Adjuntas. The electric grid was almost completely destroyed in the central mountains of Puerto Rico, with much of it remaining in need of repair for months following the storm in towns like Adjuntas.
Destroyed by Maria
Gas station in Loíza Aldea that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria and has been closed since.
Desperate Faces
Desperate faces with no basic food and sufferng from HIV.
Demonstrating Capoeira
Professora Amazonas (Grupo Liberdade de Capoeira), Instrutora Cuica (Capoeira Mandinga), and Instrutora Canarinha (Capoeira Sol Nascente) demonstrate the movements and rhythms of capoeira.
Dedication to the Vision
True dedication is crushing these stones to be used for building.
Decorating the Rock Area
Decorating the rock area
Decorating the Meeting Area
Mai Yvonne decorating at the meeting area
Debris Piles
Piles of debris remained at the roadsides throughout the mountains and towns after Hurricane María hit the island in September 2017. Months after the storm hit, many municipalities still had not restored garbage removal services to 100% of their…
Debris - Utuado
Sheet metal debris by the roadside in Utuado.
Debris - San Sebastian
Debris from a gas station in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, destroyed by Hurricane María.
Day of the Dead Skull at Family Arts Day
Participant in the Raícitas Youth Program and Family Arts Day proudly displaying his Day of the Dead skull.
Day of the Dead Family Arts Day Flyer
Flyer for the November 2010 Family Arts Day Workshop. This workshop featured crafts and storytelling activities inspired by the Day of the Dead, or el día de los muertos.
Dancing with Los Vejigantes
Gabriela Pérez dancing bomba with Los Vejigantes.
Dancing Plena
Gabriela Pérez dancing plena at a public educational performance in New Brunswick, NJ. Plena is the national music dance of Puerto Rico and is commonly played, sung, and danced in the diaspora at festivals, parties, plenazos, performances and…
Dancing Maculélé
Students dance maculélé in a circle, using their sticks to keep rhythm along with the drums.
Dancing Maculélé
Students practice maculélé, an Afro-Brazilian dance form closely related to capoeira in Professora Amazonas’ children’s capoeira class.
Dancing in Havana
In Havana, there is no specified time or place for music, it is simply part of everyday life, from morning to night. On his cultural exchange trip to Cuba, NJ musician Dean Warren Schomburg experienced this, as pictured here by his spontaneous dance…
Dancing for Haiti
After the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Raíces Cultural Center Ensemble was asked to perform at a benefit event sponsored by local Rutgers University students. Raíces Ensemble members and Raíces student performers created a presentation for…
Dancing Bomba
Demonstrating the bomba tradition, where the dancer's movements are responded to by the lead drummer, who plays the sounds of the dancer's movements.
Dancing Bomba
Gabriela dancing bomba with students at the Greater Brunswick Charter School in New Brunswick, NJ, sharing the folkloric traditions of bomba, plena and los vejigantes de Puerto Rico.
Dancing before the Drum - Maculelê
Capoeira Senzala shares the Afro-Brazilian tradition of Maculelê in Highland Park, NJ as part of the Raíces Roots Music Concert Series 2018.
Dancing Before the Drum - Don Miguel Flores Lopez
Don Miguel Flores Lopez was a bomba dancer from Guayama, and was the last dancer to preserve and share the old style bomba dance from his town, having danced bomba for over 75 years.
Dancing Before the Drum
Don Miguel Flores Lopez and Melanie Maldonado dancing before the drum in the plaza of Juncos, Puerto Rico at the 5th Encuentro de Tambores.
Dancing Before the Drum
Bomba dancer dancing before the drum.