Colombian dance steps take the stage at Harmony’s Multicultural Pageant

Each Thursday since July, Sindy Chown, who comes from Barranquilla, Colombia, has been teaching a various group of ladies to study the dance steps of champeta, mapalé, and salsa.

At Harmony’s Multicultural Pageant on Sunday, they obtained the prospect to indicate off what that they had discovered.

Wearing multicolored, butterfly-adorned skirts and carrying umbrellas with flowers, 10 ladies waited backstage, listening fastidiously to their instructor going by the choreography.

Varnika Cheekati is the youngest of the group. She mentioned she was pleased to bop as she performed together with her umbrella. She can also be a part of a Hindi dance group, and her father was pleased to see her sharing in different cultures on Sunday.

The group has been spreading the Latino dance taste throughout New Hampshire, with shows in Laconia, Keene, Manchester, and Nashua. Chown mentioned she is proud to see youngsters find out about Colombian traditions.

Soraya Chown, who’s 13 and Sindy Chown’s daughter, mentioned the dance courses had given her the chance to reconnect together with her mother and share one thing in frequent. She has been within the group for 5 years.

“What I like essentially the most about dancing goes to completely different festivals,” she mentioned.

Celia Corrlew, 11, ran after the primary presentation to alter her apparel for the subsequent one. She mentioned she labored exhausting to study the choreography, and typically it obtained actually tough.

“However our instructor is very nice, so I’m glad I did it,” she mentioned.

Like the opposite ladies within the group, she loved sporting the normal skirt and enjoying with it essentially the most.