Blending tap dance and zapateado, La Mezcla dance company uses dance and song to tell stories of Chicana history, culture and resistance — such as those who stood up to the racist attacks of the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots. KQEDarts
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Zapatap draws on the history of tap as a form of African American resistance; on the Afro-Mexican dance and music tradition of son jarocho; and, in La Mezcla’s most recent show,Tap dance originated in the United States in the early 19th century, at the crossroads of African and Irish-American dance forms. When slave owners took away traditional African drums, enslaved people took to percussive dancing to express themselves and maintain their cultural identities.
Sanchez absorbed this style of dance while living in Veracruz in the early 2010s, trading tap moves for zapateado rhythms. And when it came time to choreograph La Mezcla’s 2019 show about Chicana women who stood up to the racist attacks of the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, this hybrid style—neither fully Mexican nor fully American—made perfect sense.
For her and other dancers in the group, embodying the spirit of those women is exhilarating. “When I put on the zoot suit, it's like—I'm getting chills just talking about it,” Sandy Vazquez says. “It's a really emotional experience for me continuing the legacy of resistance and survival that these women had to overcome, and then being able to put that on a stage.
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