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...Presencia Latina, Harvard’s Latino cultural show, is intended not only as a showcase for Latino and Latin-American creativity but also as a means of strengthening the entire community within Harvard. The show, which will take place tomorrow, features both traditional and modern acts presented by the winners of the show’s Latino/a of the Year awards: hip-hop artist Daddy Yankee and “America’s Next Top Model” winner Jaslene Gonzalez. The board members of Presencia Latina have been auditioning students, organizing celebrity guest appearances, and promoting...
...track was produced by Luny Tunes, two beatmakers who honed their hit-making skills while working in Harvard dining halls, before leaving for Puerto Rico in 2001. As Luny and Tunes (Francisco Saldaña and Victor Cabrera, respectively) return to Harvard tomorrow night to host Presencia Latina, Harvard’s Latin American cultural festival, the music they helped to propel into the limelight has taken on an institutional legitimacy few could have anticipated just a few years ago.In many ways, reggaeton is currently at the kind of cultural crosroads that hip-hop encountered in the mid-1980s...
...Gasolina,” Don Omar’s “Dale Don Dale,” and several remixes of Paris Hilton’s “Stars are Blind.”On April 28, the award-winning duo will return to campus to host Presencia Latina, the annual Latino cultural celebration which features performances from Ballet Folklórico, Candela Salsa, Mariachi Veritas de Harvard, and others. Visiting Harvard is a symbolic homecoming for the duo, at least according to Presencia Latina’s oraganizers.“Whenever I’ve been...
...Herrera is not alone in her desire to straighten out such views. Four years ago, members of Fuerza Latina, a pan-Latino student organization at Harvard, decided to produce an artistic exhibition with the aim of showcasing the wealth and diversity of Latino art. This Saturday, “Presencia Latina” will be making its fourth annual performance at Lowell Lecture Hall, showing once at 4 p.m. and again at 8 p.m. Co-produced by Herrera and Jonathan Rosa ’08, and co-directed by sophomores Marisol Pineda ’08 and Eloise T. Quintanilla...
Pineda has answered her calling to leadership this year, assuming co-directorship of both BFA and Presencia Latina, as well as choreographing two pieces—“Jesusita” and “La Bamba”—which BFA will perform in the show. In choreographing “Jesusita,” a traditional Mexican piece from the era of the Mexican Revolution, Pinada has been able to return to the women’s dancing she loved so much as a child. She emphasizes the presence of “several twirls...