Bomba - A Dance of The African Diaspora

Witness the unstoppable joy of dancing bomba with sisters Mar and María Cruz. Visit some of the communities where bomba dancing is most vibrant, from the Santurce area of San Juan, to Loíza, the bastion of Afro Puerto Rican culture across the Rio Grande. Meet Jesús Cepeda, a member of the family that has kept this culture alive through the latter half of the 20th century, and community organizer Maricruz Rivera Clementa who runs the Corporación Piñones Se Integra (http://www.copipr.com/) dedicated to preserving Afro Puerto Rican culture and teaching the next generation of bomba dancers. (An episode from “If Cities Could Dance”, a PBS series. )