San Miguel de Allende Atención San Miguel, the best information in print and online! June 14
By Leonardo Rosen At its meeting of April 29, 2013, the City Council of San Miguel de Allende voted unanimously to bestow a great honor on the Club de Danzón “Mercerina.” This legislation gives our group a special status as the official representative of our city to the danzón in all of the Mexican Republic. [...]
By Elsanne Barrows An evening of belly dance at the Teatro Santa Ana: —“Una Noche de la Danza del Vientre” — features dancers from Sonora, Queretaro, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi and the United States in a varied, sumptuous spectacle of dance as taught at Libelula dance studio in colonia San Antonio. Belly dance teachers and [...]
By Leonardo Rosen At its regular Monday meeting of April 29, 2013, the City Council of San Miguel de Allende voted unanimously to bestow a great honor on the Club de Danzón “Mercerina.” This legislation gives our group a special status as the official representative of our city to the danzón in all of the [...]
By Leonardo Rosen Every year, the same thing happens with the end of Holy Week. The Mexican tourists go back to work and school in Mexico City and other places. The “snowbirds” return to their northern countries, now that it is warm enough up there. What happens to San Miguel? It dies. It goes through [...]
By Elsanne Barrows Men in belly dance? At Libelula dance studio in the colonia San Antonio, exclusively women come to classes and I am often asked this question: do men belly dance? The answer: yes. Traditionally, folkloric styles of Middle Eastern dances have a very clear role for men in the dance. Yet, in art [...]
By Leonardo Rosen As a man, it is not pleasant for me to say that our greatest problem in the world of social dance is men. Over the years, I’ve written other articles attempting to explain why many (most?) men don’t want to dance. The best explanation that I can come up with is that [...]
By Leonardo Rosen Once again, San Miguel de Allende presents the famous Feria de la Candelaria in the Parque Juárez with its beautiful exhibition and sale of plants and flowers. As in previous years, the Club de Danzón “Mercerina” has been invited to participate with “El Danzón y Otros Ritmos Bailables…..”. Our longtime favorite, the [...]
By Oswaldo Mejía For the 32nd year the National Dance Company will present The Nutcracker in Mexico City. This year, the 80 dancers will offer a performance characterized by artistic and technical innovations and will be accompanied by the orchestra of Bellas Artes, under the baton of director Tadeusz Wojciechowski. The Nutcracker was written in [...]
By Leonardo Rosen Before saying anything else, the Club de Danzón “Mercerina” aplogizes to everyone for all the last minute confusion surrounding our event of Sunday, October 28. However, it was not our fault. Even though our events of that date and Sunday, November 11, were already scheduled and advertised, we were informed at the [...]
By Leonardo Rosen Looking back on more than five years of classes and four years of admission-free public events with the Club de Danzón “Mercerina”, there are various things I wish for in San Miguel de Allende. These are not in order of priority: Danzón Sun, Jul 29, 1-3pm & 6-8pm The Kiosco of the [...]
