WXYZ

'Bomba' dance helping Puerto Ricans reconnect to their heritage, express resistance

(WXYZ) — Whether it's Salsa, Merengue or Cha Cha, it would be nearly impossible to go to a LatinX gathering and not see dancing. It's a form of expression embedded ...
KQED

For the Ancestors: Bomba is Puerto Rico’s Afro-Latino Dance of Resistance

Editor’s note: KQED Arts’ award-winning video series If Cities Could Dance is back for a third season! In each episode, meet dancers across the country representing their city’s signature moves. New ...
PBS

Puerto Rico's Bomba, A Dance of The African Diaspora

Sisters Mar and Maria Cruz are preserving the legacy of this dance of resistance. Witness the unstoppable joy of dancing bomba, Puerto Rico’s Afro-Puerto Rican dance of resistance. Meet sisters Mar ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Meet the Puerto Rican dance organization keeping Bomba alive in Connecticut

"Bambulaé be it now,” (Bambulaé sea ya) someone called out from a window on a street in New Haven, Connecticut. To Kevin Díaz Rodríguez´s surprise, the director of Movimiento Cultural Afro-Continental ...
Chicago Reader

Dance in the Park: Plena and Bomba 6/12

At the launch of Chicago SummerDance, the city’s summer-long free dance and live music series, Tito Rodriguez will be offering lessons in the Afro-Puerto Rican styles of plena and bomba from 6 to 7 pm ...