{"id":438271,"date":"2026-09-17T01:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438271\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T01:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:06:10","slug":"the-guadalupe-dance-company-creates-a-night-of-music-and-dance-at-the-carver-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/438271\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guadalupe Dance Company creates a night of music and dance at the Carver Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Guadalupe Dance Company\u2019s<\/a> performance on Thursday and Friday will feature live music and dance by the Guadalupe Dance Company and the Mariachi Azteca de America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Guadalupe\u2019s Belinda Menchaca<\/a> has been doing her part to keep traditional dance and music alive in San Antonio, over a long tenure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just celebrated 34 years at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center,\u201d Menchaca said.<\/p>\n

The Guadalupe is ground zero for local and regional music, dance and history. Their upcoming event is happening at the Carver Community Cultural Center<\/a> at the Jo Long Theater.<\/p>\n

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Belinda Menchaca and unnamed partner dance.<\/p>\n

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center \/ Courtesy<\/p>\n

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Guadalupe Dance Company onstage at the Tobin<\/p>\n

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center \/ Courtesy <\/p>\n

\u201cThe performance … really celebrates traditional Mexican folklorico dance as well as live music by Mariachi Azteca de America,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Menchaca said the performance highlights tradition by way of that music and dance.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really is a story about life and our different celebrations: quincea\u00f1eras<\/a>, baptisms, and the basically just the story of our culture and our heritage,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Menchaca said the night will be full of music and dance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re very excited to be presenting\u00a0“Celebrando Tradiciones, Coraz\u00f3n y Ra\u00eds,” which means celebrating our traditions, the heart and root of our culture,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Guadalupe Dance Company dancing in Yucatan.<\/p>\n

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center \/ Courtesy<\/p>\n

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Guadalupe Dance Company on stage<\/p>\n

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center \/ Courtesy <\/p>\n

Whenever there is dance, there is music. Menchaca says the music will be provided by a very talented ensemble.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur live music will be presented by Mariachi Azteca de America,\u201d Menchaca said. \u201cThey are an amazing mariachi ensemble directed by our traditional music director at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Gino Rivera, and his musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n

2018 Guadalupe Dance Company Promo<\/p>\n

Menchaca notes that if you don\u2019t keep art traditions alive, over time, they disappear.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is correct, and that’s why it’s so important to us to be continuing to tell our stories and to keep our culture alive through the traditions of music and dance, but also telling our stories to younger generations,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio’s newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-438271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}