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“It is just possible, speaking hypothetically, of course, that a reviewer might not feel thrilled to the core at the prospect of watching a folkloric dance group. But the Ballet Folklórico de México, which performed at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday night, offers such a captivating spectacle that any reservations about an excess of bright costumes and swirling skirts are resoundingly allayed.
Amalia Hernández, who founded the company in 1952, was famous for finding traditional dances in far-flung villages all over Mexico. (She died in 2000, and the Ballet Folklórico is now run by her daughter Norma López Hernández and her grandson Salvador López.) But except for the occasional cultural anthropologist in the audience, most of us have to take the company’s authenticity on trust. In a 1997 article in The New York Times, Ms. Hernández ingeniously remarked: “My concentration either receives or it invents. Either way is all right, don’t you think?””*
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