Lucy Salazar – Dance/USA Artist Fellow

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Image Description: This is a headshot of a woman in her seventies with shoulder length salt and pepper hair parted on the right side. She is wearing an embroidered red blouse with white sleeves. She has a purple flower behind her right ear and is wearing silver earrings. She has a braided necklace on and is against a light blue background. Photo by Andres Salazar.

Lucy Salazar

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Albuquerque, NM

Lucy Salazar is a nuevomexicana born in Agua Fria, NM. She has been dancing since childhood as her grandfather, uncles, aunts and father were all musicians with whom she would go to local “bailes” where they would listen to music and dance well into the night by kerosene lamp light.Salazar learned these traditional New Mexican Folk Dances (Bailes de Salón) from her parents and grandparents and has made it her passion to preserve and teach these dances to the younger generation and anyone who may want to learn them. Her goal is to share generational joy through movement.

Salazar has been teaching these dances through the NM Artist in the Schools Program, The National Hispanic Cultural Center, The Asociacíon Nacional de Grupos Folklóricos and private events throughout New Mexico. She is in the process of compiling the dances in a book with historical narrative and diagrams for sequence and choreography and hopes to include YouTube links for each dance. Salazar teaches Tai Chi and is a certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. She has been dancing and teaching Mexican Folklórico Dance since 1970.

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Image Description: A woman in her seventies wearing a white blouse with red embroidery at the sleeves and upper torso. She has shoulder length salt and pepper hair and is clapping. The background is purple with “Summer” written in paper letters with a paper caterpillar made of circles of different colors. There are various potted plants in the background. Photo by Andres Salazar.
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Image Description: There is a line of people with arms hooked at the elbows. They are of various ages, both male and female. They are following the leader who is wearing a black skirt and white blouse while dancing on a brown and white checkered floor. The room has brick walls and several windows. Photo by Andres Salazar.
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Image Description: The leader is moving to her right with her right arm down and her right heel on the ground. She is wearing a black skirt and a white blouse while dancers of various ages are partnered and in partners moving towards the center of a circle on a brown and white floor. The background is a red brick wall. Photo by Andres Salazar.
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Image Description: The leader is moving to her right with all her weight on the right fool and her left arm up. She is wearing a black skirt, white blouse and black shoes. People of various ages are dancing with partners on a brown and white floor with a red brick background. Photo by Andres Salazar.

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