We have enjoyed seeing a lot of excellent Mexican folk dancing here. Frequent free performances in public plazas make the pleasure constantly available. Here are a few of our photos of the dances and dancers. More videos to follow soon.

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Every Sunday at 4pm Radio Queréaro puts on a show with local performers on a huge stage set up just for the day in Plaza de Armas. The shows draw big crowds, and usually have excellent music or dance performances.

This is a sample of the performance of a local dance group on January 18, 2009:

The Second Festival of Foreign Nations was celebrated in the Gomez Morin Cultural Center at the end of January. Performers represented various nations and cultures in presentations on the stage. This group of local Mexican dancers were representing Italy with dancing to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons":

The station offices of Radio Queretaro are just a few steps off the Plaza de Armas. On some Saturdays the radio station puts on a Huapango dance, public invited, in the hall of the station. Huapango is the traditional folk dance of the Huasteca region (including much of the state of Queretaro, along with parts of Veracruz, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Puebla). We stopped in briefly on January 31 to watch the action:
 

Neighborhood folk dance performance to celebrate the holy day Candelaria, Feb 2nd, at the parroquia Santa Catarina in Querétaro:

On February 14 we attended a large and well-publicized event: Huapango, Pasion y Tradicion de la Huasteca at the Teatro de Seguro Social.  The performers are the Compania de Danza Folklorica del grupo Cultural Mexicana Tradition Serrama AC and el Grupo Trio de Huapango Mision Queretana.
 

On February 21st we saw the Flamenco program “De la Persistencia y sus Remembranzas” - by the Compañía de Musica y Danza de Plata y Bronze. They were totally terrific. Two dancers, two guitarists and a singer. We loved the performance, the best of many we have seen in the Museo de la Ciudad. The company was just fantastic. Maria Tillett (“La Giralda”) founded the group in 2005, after graduating from Bard College (!!). The other members are: Antonio Godínez, dancer and co-director, guitarists Francisco Javier Alvarez and Javier Sámano and singer Silvia Velázquez.

Querétaro arts organizations constantly sponsor excellent music and dance performances at the several fine venues around town. Every week, there are performances at stages set up in Plaza de Armas, in Plaza de los Fundadores, in Jardin Zenea, in Plaza Guererro, or in Plazuela Mariano de las Casas -- often in several of these. One of these events, on March 12, featured the dancers of the Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro in the Plazuela Mariano de las Casas. One part of that performance is on display in the page on the Danzantes Concheros. Here are selections of the rest of the performance, including a brief tribute to the beauty of the setting.