HWe are very excited to enter into collaboration with Seattle Fandango Project, Carolina Martínez in San Diego, Tierras Milperas, Portland Fandango “Hunter Gatherings”, and Casa Hogar in Yakima, to coordinate the visit of Gemaly Padua Uscanga to the United States in the month of November. Gemaly is a traditional dancer, Leonera and Huapango singer; originally from Chacalapa, municipality of Chinameca in the southeast of the state of Veracruz.
Stay connected to our social media and very soon we will share more details about this collaboration, the different regions where she will be, and the workshops and events that are being organized collectively between the different groups and organizations that love and recognize the importance of organizing around Fandango Tradition.
Gemaly Padua Uscanga
Traditional musician, Fandango Dancer, an Afro-descendant who will share with us where she is in her process of re-deconstruction and self-recognition and the work she does with the ALPEKEE collective.. also shared with us about the tradition of the Fandango and the power of the Fiestas as a form of sociopolitical organization, as a space to meet with others and with herself.
