Posted on: April 30th, 2008
Filed Under: [ Art y Culture ] [ Latinas ] [ Youth ] [ Illinois ]
Tags: family, Mexico
Brenda Estrada, 13, embraces the exhilarating beat of Mexican folkloric dance.
The vivacious seventh-grader practices the traditional dances of Jalisco, Sinaloa and Veracruz, all states in Mexico, at least four nights a week in her family’s trailer home.
“I want to share my culture with others,” she said. “I try to get as much time in dancing as I can on my break and still have to come and eat.””*
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