The
ballet company was invited to perform in Cuba by the Jose Marti
Cultural Society as part of activities marking 120 years of the
publication of Marti’s assay Our America.
The group performed dances from Tlaxcala such as the Ball Dance
of the Epoch (1894-1911) and the Knives Dance, which is a
farmers’ satire of landowner’s parties, currently performed in
local carnivals.
Another autochthonous choreography was "Cuadrillas de Tizatlón,"
also a parody of ball dances in the way of humble and poor
farmers, director and choreographer Gregorio Corona Perez said.
The Folkloric Ballet of Tlaxcala was founded by Enrique Dorantes
Diaz and Corona Perez and it is made up of about 30 dancers of
10 to 27 years of age. It performed for the first time in 1993.
The company is scheduled to perform at the Casa Alba cultural
center and to participate in activities marking 100th
anniversary of the first public housing project for workers in
Cuba.