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Professional Company

Professional dancers, choreographers, instructors, and musicians perform on main stage productions as well as at community and cultural events throughout the Southwest.  Through our performances, ANMBF is able to showcase Mexican Folklorico dances and tradition.

 

Professional Dancers

All our professional dancers have extensive training in our Folklorico and other forms of dance. Some have been members of our Junior Company and have completed necessary training to become professionals.

 

Professional dancer bios coming soon.

 

 
 
Junior Company

This apprentice program provides specialized training in Ballet Folklorico as well as other dance forms free of charge. Many of these students have over 10 years dance experience with ANMBF. This group performs all over the metroplex at events such as Dance for the Planet, City Arts Festival, and various other community festivals. They recently performed at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Festival Latino. The Junior Company members serve as ambassadors of the Hispanic culture for the citizens of Dallas. ANMBF currently has 15 members in the Junior Company.

 

 
 
Childrens Ensemble

Children between the ages of 6 to 12 years old are offered free dance lessons twice a week after school.  Classes integrate movement, history, geography, and culture.  Participants receive scholarships to cover the cost of their costumes and shoes. 

 

The Children's Ensemble program has been successful in enriching educational knowledge and providing exposure, not only to dance, but to other art factions, such as theatre and music. The program also encourages a healthy lifestyle with an overall physical fitness focus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 


Folklorico Fact!

La China Poblana. The "Puebla China Girl", La China Poblana, is synonymous with this city, but few poblanos knew her true life story. Catarina de San Juan (1609-1688), originally named Mirrha, was born in Delhi, India, and kidnaped at the age of nine by pirates. The captors sold her to a Portuguese merchant in Manila, who later shipped her to Miguel de Sosa, a poblano who had commissioned the merchant to send him "a little Chinese girl." Sosa and his wife adopted eleven year-old Mirrha in 1620 and baptized her Catarina. Upon the couple's death, Catarina married Domingo Suárez, the Chinese servant of the local parish priest. Seventeenth-century poblanos admired her acts of charity and copied her picturesque costume. Twentieth-century poblanos modified the costume to incorporate the colors and insignia of the Mexican flag. Puebla's monument to La China Poblana, an enormous statue atop a tiled fountain, is located in the northern end of the city at the junction of Boulevard Heroes del 5 de Mayo and Avenida Defensores de La Republica.

Folklorico Fact!

La China Poblana. The "Puebla China Girl", La China Poblana, is synonymous with this city, but few poblanos knew her true life story. Catarina de San Juan (1609-1688), originally named Mirrha, was born in Delhi, India, and kidnaped at the age of nine by pirates. The captors sold her to a Portuguese merchant in Manila, who later shipped her to Miguel de Sosa, a poblano who had commissioned the merchant to send him "a little Chinese girl." Sosa and his wife adopted eleven year-old Mirrha in 1620 and baptized her Catarina. Upon the couple's death, Catarina married Domingo Suárez, the Chinese servant of the local parish priest. Seventeenth-century poblanos admired her acts of charity and copied her picturesque costume. Twentieth-century poblanos modified the costume to incorporate the colors and insignia of the Mexican flag. Puebla's monument to La China Poblana, an enormous statue atop a tiled fountain, is located in the northern end of the city at the junction of Boulevard Heroes del 5 de Mayo and Avenida Defensores de La Republica.