Carmen Reina-Nelson: Creating Community through Dance

Join us in welcoming Carmen Reina-Nelson to the Lyons Library. She'll describe and demonstrate the spiritual and historic roots of popular Latin American and Caribbean dances.

Carmen Reina-Nelson, a native of Guatemala, introduced Boulder to the popular dances and culture of Latin America in 1991. For the next 25 years, Carmen taught dance classes and performed regularly with her Grupo Macondo, sharing the dances of Afro-Indo-Ibero America. Carmen also served as artist-in-residence at Bates College and the University of Colorado, created the first Afro-Latin dance festival in Boulder, was the recipient of Boulder County's Ninth Annual Multicultural Award for the Arts, sponsored visits by inspiring teachers, and served as Latin American Projects Coordinator for the Colorado Dance Festival.