Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba Dance Community Workshop

For the fourth Afro-Latino week, audiences will experience the Afro-Latino culture and music. Special guest is Las Bompleneras, an all-women group led by Ivelisse Diaz, est. in 2010 in Chicago. Dedicated to uplifting and bringing visibility to the role and power of women in Afro-Puerto Rican Bomba y Plena.

The community workshop is both traditional dance and musical style of Puerto Rico. Its origins are rooted in the island's history of African slavery but today has evolved into a community expression of Afro-Puerto Rican culture.