Ballet Folklórico de Wayne State University is hosting this event in honor of Black History Month. Our special guests will be highlighting music and dance that is rooted in Afro-Latinidad from Mexico and Puerto Rico.
Our special guests are Ricanstruction, which is a music/dance group that performs Bomba Afro-Puertorican Drumming and dance. Their founder is our very own Professor, Ozzie Gonzalez.
Our special guests also include David Ezekiel Herrera, a community arts educator from Salinas, CA. He commits himself to promoting arts, culture, and community through facilitating workshops on capoeira Angola and son Jarocho. As a teacher, he has facilitated son Jarocho workshops in the Portland, Oregon community, and given demonstration classes at My Voice Music in Portland and Garage Cultural in Detroit, MI.