SF Ethnic Dance Festival.
The annual San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Ethnic Dance Festival has flourished for 28 years because of the diversity of cultures represented in Northern California--and their apparently irrepressible urge to explore their heritages in movement. Over three weekends, 31 companies and soloists come from China, Peru, Poland, and the American hip hop The United States was the nation of origin of hip hop, a cultural movement that began in the 1970s in New York City, among primarily African American and Hispanic audiences.[1] milieu, and they dance with a pride you won't believe. June 10-25; Palace of Fine Arts - For the opera house in Mexico City, see Palacio de Bellas Artes, and for the Palace of Fine Arts that was part of Chicago's White City fairgrounds for the World's Columbian Exposition (1893), see Museum of Science and Industry.
Theater, San Francisco. www.worldartswest.org.
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