During the program, ‘Dance Your Ancestors,' created by Cynthia Paniagua's Kaypacha Dance Company, we as representatives of the Peruvian-American diaspora, had the opportunity to learn various Afro-Andean dance styles in Lima and Ica, Peru from cultural ambassadors preserving traditions through the Amador Ballumbrosio Cultural Center in Chinca, Peru. This is ‘Zapateo,’ a percussive footwork dance of that combines Spanish shoe-tapping with an African ‘call and response’ competitive beat originating from the Congolese basin.

Choreography is by Alma Ballumbrosio