Cafecito Con . . . Entre Mujeres

Dance Film, and on the Teaching of Mexican Foklorico, with Folklorista Rayven Armijo

Season 2 (2022)

*This segment is date/time stamped: June 23rd, 2022; 2:15PM PST

LEAD-Affiliate Programming from Studio 54, “Cafecito Con . . . Entre Mujeres” is a show where we invite guests to inform us, enlighten us, and inspire us by sharing about themselves and the spaces they step into and make their own.

We are an intergenerational trio, hoping to bring you conversations about women, with women, and for women. We hope to build a community without borders so that women can express, inspire, inform and lead to true self-growth.

Rayven Armijo, a dancer. choreographer, folklorista, role model, and founder of Las Mijas shares some of her experiences and thoughts on teaching Mexican Folklorico at various schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. She relays stories about how some students aren't always open to that - Mexican Folklorico.

She shares a “dance film” produced in affiliation with SPARC, a Los Angeles-based visual arts organization, and filmed at one particular Continuing School in Venice, California named Phoenix High School. She asks the students to think about “Dance, Film, and Movement”; and prompts them to express the differences in their experience attending a continuation school.

The dance film she introduces is a story of conflict, but where students are allowed to express their story through Folklorico.

- Delila A. Vasquez: Founder, Producer & Co-Host (she, her, ella)

Mami (mom), wife, friend, sister, tía, comadre, friend, mentor, a student of life. My idea is that we talk about not-the hats we wear, rather, that we talk about the spaces we step into. I invite conversations to explore what we do, why we do it, and who we are as we influence our circles. Titles are limiting; therefore, I do not want to talk about the hats we wear or the roles we play, I think in terms of what shoes to wear to be ready to step into the spaces we walk into. There is a shoe for...