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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
    JDunn danzas_023.jpg
  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
    JDunn danzas_018.jpg
  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
    JDunn danzas_015.jpg
  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
    JDunn danzas_010.jpg
  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
    JDunn danzas_003.jpg
  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • MEXICO, Veracruz, Tantoyuca, Nov 1- Nov 4, 2009. Making the souls of the dead feel welcome as they return for a yearly visit, Mexicans in this tropical state offer not only elaborate feasts and flower-filled altars, but dancing as well. Masked bands of performers called "cuadrillos" rehearse for months their choreography, rich with symbolic roles for men, women, devils, and death itself, then over the course of two nights regale both graveyards and city streets with whoops of laughter, raise-the-roof dancing and music until dawn. Photographs commissioned by HOY Newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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  • Mexico, Veracruz, Oct 27- Nov 4, 2009. For the last twenty-five years, Chicago resident Polo Garcia, a former dance teacher turned folklorist-ethnographer, has gone in search of the cultural traditions of Hispanic America, documenting for future generations indigenous dance movements so ritualized they are often passed on from memory by village elders. Using audio, video and still photography, Garcia spends up to half of each year abroad or in his native Mexico, returning with new material to instruct children as well as teachers in Chicago public schools.  <br />
Photographs commissioned by "HOY" newspaper. More at MexicoCulturalCalendar.com
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