Ballet Folklórico Dances Into the Heart of Culture
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Tuesday October 27, 2015 The Student Voice of California State University, Fullerton Volume 98 Issue 31 FB.COM/THEDAILYTITAN WWW.DAILY TITAN.COM INSTAGRAM & TWITTER @THEDAILYTITAN Ballet Folklórico dances Health service into the heart of culture center to open CSUF partners with city to aid low- income youth MICAH AUGIMERI-LEE Daily Titan The Fullerton City Coun- cil approved a partnership between the city’s Parks and Recreation Department and Cal State Fullerton at last week’s council meeting, which resulted in handing the Richman Neighborhood Center to CSUF’s Center for Healthy Neighborhoods project. The overall goal of the pro- gram is to provide the com- munity — particularly in ar- eas of low income — with a means to access important health services, said Jessie Jones, Interim Dean of the College of Health and Human Development. YUNUEN BONAPARTE / DAILY TITAN “It is a privilege and it is a Ballet Folklórico de Cal State Fullerton provides students the opprotunity to learn about Mexican culture through traditional Mexican dance. The club performs a new style duty, I think, as a public uni- of dance from different states or regions of Mexico every semester. The club, founded in 2007, hopes to teach students the importance of family as well as culture. versity to help lift our commu- nities,” Jones said. “We have Dancers connect full display throughout the Ballet Folklórico, simply region of Mexico. month to learn the tradition- to give hope to those who are room while upbeat music put, is an art. It’s an art that “We really pride our- al dances of various states in in the low-income communi- with traditional echoes in the crowded prac- is expressed through tradi- selves in teaching each other Mexico. ties so that they don’t continue Mexican heritage tice space. tional Mexican dance, said the history about the states “Folklórico is an ev- the cycle of poverty.” Women position their Joselyn Hernandez, presi- and also teaching each other er-evolving process. It Student involvement will be hands firmly at their hips dent of the BF de CSUF club the steps,” said Hernandez, developed in the little a major aspect of the free ser- KRISTIANA GUZMAN while men keep theirs at and a fourth-year member. a kinesiology major. pueblos in Mexico as a vices provided by the center, For the Daily Titan their side. In sync with the The BF de CSUF club, BF de CSUF meets every community-type event,” Jones said. Students in fields rapidly-paced music, mem- founded in 2007 by Chris- Monday and Tuesday. Jose Vasquez said. “It evolved such as social work, counsel- bers of the Ballet Folklórico topher Sandoval, emphasiz- Vasquez, the club’s artis- into something that al- ing, nursing and child and ad- Steady vibrations trav- de Cal State University Ful- es the rich history of Ballet tic director, is in charge of lowed us to present our olescent studies will be able to el across the floor as feet lerton club emit just as much Folklórico, which varies in teaching the members Folk- heritage to others.” get experience in their field. tap along its surface. Sharp, passion in their movements dance styles, songs and at- lórico dances. He attends precise movements are in as they do in their culture. tire depending on state and different workshops every SEE DANCE 4 SEE HEALTH 3 Professor embraces verbal variety Fellowship is to encourage the transi- tion of non-standard lan- supports scholar’s guage varieties such as unique research Ebonics or Spanglish to a more mainstream, standard type of English. DANIELLE ORTENZIO “Writers from all differ- Daily Titan ent races, ethnicities and backgrounds use those ver- bal traditions and ways of Bonnie Farrier, Ph.D., communicating in their has a youthful demeanor writing. It’s not something and an infectious laugh at that you want to change; 31 years old, but her age is it’s something you want to no barrier when it comes to get better at,” Farrier said. her research studies. She “I get a lot of resistance to received the 2015-2016 that.” American Postdoctoral Farrier’s research be- Fellowship Award for her gan while in the grad- research entitled “Linguis- uate program at Michi- tic Gifts: Teaching African gan State University as American Verbal Tradition her dissertation project in to College Writers.” 2012. Her focus was on Af- Farrier’s research fo- rican-American literacy. cuses on communication The research consisted of in African-American cul- fieldwork, in which she tures. She encourages ver- was able to teach a class bal traditions as ways of of students for two weeks communicating, a tech- on the concept of verbal nique of which not all tradition. ALLAN LE / DAILY TITAN scholars approve. The Bonnie Farrier, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, comparative literature and linguistics, focuses on communication in African- widely accepted approach SEE BOOK 6 American cultures in her research. She encourages verbal traditions as ways of communicating. 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