Dancers and Video Evoke Emotions of Immigration

Posted on November 14, 2009 by mexicoinstitute

The San Franscisco Chronicle, 11/14/09
Origins of Flight, a dance performance by the David Herrera Dance Company that opened Friday night and will be performed again tonight at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts tells the story of a young, pregnant woman who immigrates to the United States from Mexico.
If the story is a familiar [...]

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