World Masters
Creating One World through Arts & Culture
America
Ligia María Torijano Chacón
  • FieldDance / Popular Dance
  • CountryCosta Rica

 

The Pioneer of Swing Creole, which won the National Culture Award for his 18 years of research and dissemination in the 100% Costa Rican dance, Swing and Bolero Creole

 

 

1. Made colaborration with the costarican filmmaker Gabriela Hernández helping as consultor from the documentary “SE PROHIBE BAILAR SUIN”

2. Invited to participate with her Dance Company in the International Festival of the Arts with 5 presentations and giving 3 Swing Criollo workshops in the FIA (2008)

3. Celebration of the Independence Cry in the Zócalo Plaza in México Distrito Federal and in the Delegación Venustiano Carranza(2003)

4. Invited by the Cultural Center of Spain to give a demonstrative talk on the theme The Swing Criollo in the space of July of "What is danced in Costa Rica"