New Twist on Old Tradition

Education

(SUNfoto by Lou Mattei) San Juan Elementary sixth-grader Brandon Sanchez practices stilt-walking Oct. 22 with Moving People Dance Company visiting artist Roger Montoya in the school’s gym. Sanchez and his classmates were learning to walk, and dance, on stilts in preparation for the school’s performance of Día de Los Muertos scheduled for Thursday (11/5) at 6 p.m.

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Though most people associate El Día de Los Muertos celebrations with Mexico and Central America, San Juan Elementary students are using performance art to connect that ancient holiday to similar traditions in Northern New Mexico pueblos and to their studies.…

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