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Hispanic Heritage Month Friday Afternoon Meeting - Friday, October 25
- Our Lower School will be celebrating Hispanic Heritage month through a special Friday Afternoon Meeting from 1:50-2:30 on Friday, October 25. All parents/guardians are invited.
Maestra Monica and a few of our students will lead an interactive game with questions about the Hispanic culture. A few of our Fifth Grade students have also interviewed Upper school Spanish heritage and Spanish students. We will be sharing a video on this.A Bomba music and dance group will also be performing. Otoqui Reyes is a master of the Afro-Puerto Rican dance and drumming tradition called bomba. Reyes was raised in Loiza Aldea, a community with an influential bomba tradition, and also learned other regional styles of bomba. He performed for several years with the Cepeda family, one of bomba’s foremost culture bearers, in the community of Santurce. He also performed in his father’s pioneering group, Agüeybaná, who helped popularize participatory “bombazos” in the 1990s. He will be joined in this concert by his father, Angel “Balancé” Reyes, and by his Seattle ensemble, Hijos de Agüeybaná. The concert also features performances by Otoqui’s UW students in Dance and Music.
Info about the style of music: Bomba is an Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance tradition in which dancers challenge the drummer to sound out their improvised movements. The dancer creates rhythmic phrases that the lead drummer marks sonically, creating an improvised play between sound and movement, accompanied by call-and-response singing and supporting percussion.
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