Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company to open Lima’s 21st International Festival of Dance

The U.S.’ famed Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Co. will head to Lima June 9 to open the 21st International Festival of Dance at the North American Institute of Peruvian culture in Lima, daily Peru21 reported Monday. Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Company will perform the highly-acclaimed “Hyphen” and “Chino Latino,” as well as the [...]

Angels of Dance: taking children from the streets to the stage

By Annie Thériault —– The inspiration for a life-changing project came at a red light, four years ago. When the Municipal Ballet’s prima ballerina, Vania Masías, drove to a stop at the traffic light- just one more car among the thousands crawling through Lima’s overcrowded streets – a group of leaping, jumping and break-dancing street [...]