PULSE NEWS MEXICO Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) is slated to host a four-day wooden puppet festival from Thursday, Aug. 25, through Sunday, Aug. 28. The annual festival, titled Wooden Hearts and now in its second year, will showcase four plays using puppets by the Teatrapos puppet company. On Thursday, Aug, 25, at 8 p.m., the group will
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The town of San José Iturbe, located in the northern part of Mexico’s central state of Guanajuato, is slated to host the fourth edition of a mestizo food festival on Saturday, Aug. 20, and Sunday, Aug. 21. The festival will include a combination of pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial dishes, with indigenous chefs from Mexico’s Chichimeca and Otomí
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The first-ever edition of the San Miguel de Allende Arts Festival (FASMA) opened with a spectacular citywide street carnival on Friday, Aug. 12. The 10-day festival in the Mexican state of Guanajuato located just 274 kilometers from Mexico City, is intended to showcase the San Miguel’s premiere artists and cultural performers for both national and international visitors.
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Zócalo main plaza in downtown Mexico City will be the venue for the VIII Festival of Indigenous Cultures, People and Communities from Friday, Aug. 5, through Sunday, Aug. 21, the capital’s Culture Secretariat announced late last week. The event, which will have as its guests of honor members of the often-marginalized Afro-Mexican communities of Oaxaca, Guerrero
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican dance troupe Lagú Danza will present a modern ballet inspired by contemporary science and technology at Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) on Thursday, Aug. 4, at 8 p.m. Based on theories of quantum physics. Lagú Danza dancer and choreographer Érika Méndez has created scenic proposals that demonstrate the link between science
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The Mexican Jewish dance company Anajnu Veatem (which, in Hebrew, means “We and You”) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, and to commemorate the occasion, the group will perform a powerful kaleidoscope of traditional Israeli dances at Mexico City’s Guillermina Bravo Dance Theater from from Thursday, July 28, to Sunday, July 31. The performances will constitute
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO As part of the celebration of her 92nd birthday, renowned Mexican actress Teresa Selma will star in a special one-night-only performance of “El Consultorio de la Dra. Spellman” (“The Office of Dr. Spellman”), a one-person monologue written by Jaliscan actor and playwright Alberto Estrella about a psychoanalyst who takes on the personalities of all her patients, at
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO The iconic Mexican rock band La Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio packed Mexico City’s Zócalo plaza on the night of Saturday, July 16, with a free concert attended by an unprecedented 110,000 people. Decked out in their signature baggy suits and feathered hats, La Maldita Vecindad band members performed almost their entire repertoire as
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO Danzón, a type of synchronized, stylized ballroom dance with emphatic pauses and a definitive romantic air performed to slow Latin rhythms, is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba, rooted in colonial times and fused from a blend of habanera two-step, European waltz and African cadence. But in Mexico, it has been a vital part of
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PULSE NEWS MEXICO In an unprecedented celebration of Germany’s Father of Romantic Music, Mexico’s Philharmonic of the Arts will offer a festival of the works of Ludwig van Beethoven, presenting all nine of his symphonies over a five-day period, beginning on Wednesday, July 20. The Beethoven Fever festival, which will mark the 15th anniversary of the Philharmonic of the Arts,
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