By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s National Center for the Arts (Cenart) will host a daylong celebration of dance and music on Friday, April 29, from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., in recognition of International Dance Day. The festival will include 25 performances of various genres of dance, plus dance classes and the presentation of a video on the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s third annual Cárcamo Music Festival will be held simultaneously in the National Center for the Arts (Cenart) and on the Tlaloc Fountain Plaza in Chapultepec Park on Saturday, April 23, and Sunday, April 24, starting at noon each day. The family-oriented festival, which is open to all free-of-charge, will include performances of tango
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Big top fans rejoice! Mexico’s own Atayde Brothers Circus, the last of the big three-ring spectaculars in the country, will be presenting six performances at the capital’s Esperanza Iris Theater from Thursday, April 21, through Sunday, 24 April. And while the sawdust, roasted peanuts and some of the traditional animal acts might not be
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF One of Europe’s most acclaimed ballet troupes, the Voronezh State Ballet Theatre of Russia, is slated to perform “Swan Lake” at Mexico City’s Teatro Metropolitan on Sunday, April 24. The stunning fairytale ballet, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1876, will be performed with a contemporary choreographic interpretation led by the troupe’s director, Alexander Litiagin.
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS The “New Generation” interpretation of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s 1972 hit musical “Grease,” now playing at the Teatro del Parque in Huixquilucan’s Interlomas Shopping Mall, is a nostalgic tribute to a bygone era when black leather jackets and flirty hoop skirts were in teenage vogue and high school dramas revolved around first-date romances and hotrod
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s most famous ranchera music singer, Vicente Fernández, died Sunday, Dec. 12, at age 81, in a hospital in his home state of Jalisco. He suffered a fall in August and had been hospitalized ever since. Fernández was best known for his hit songs. “El Rey” and “Volver, Volver,” and for his impeccable mariachi
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Imagine a museum dedicated to the most important person in your life, YOU! Yes, it is time to get ready for your own personal photo op, set in a winter wonder-landscape with peppermint candy canes, sugarplum fairies, magical elves and even a giant Christmas unicorn. Mexico City’s very first pop-up Selfie Museum is set to open on
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican actor Octavio Ocaña, star of the television series “Vecinos” for more than 16 years, was killed on Friday, Oct. 29, in the State of Mexico’s Cuautitlán Izcalli municipality, just outside Mexico City. The 22-year-old actor was shot dead while inside a gray Jeep that he owned after allegedly being chased by local police
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The Mexico City government will host a gala Day of the Dead parade on Sunday, Oct. 31, the city’s Culture Secretariat announced Monday, Oct. 11. The parade, which will begin at noon in the capital’s central plaza Zócalo and proceed 8.7 kilometers up Avenida Juárez and Paseo de la Reforma to the Campo Marte
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The prestigious Sonoran modern dance company Antares is slated to perform a limited presentation of one of its most famous repertoires, “Las Buenas Maneras” (“Good Manners”), at Mexico City’s Raúl Flores Canelo Theater inside the National Center for the Arts on Oct. 1, 2 and 3. It will be the first live performance by
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