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The Texas Association for Hispanic Dance and Culture (TAHDC) was founded in July 2003 in answer to the educational and cultural needs of the Texas Hispanic community.
The specific purposes of this 501 c 3 corporation shall be to create a bridge between audiences, educators, artists, dancers, musicians, media, and other non-profit organizations for the preservation, dissemination and evolvement of Hispanic dance and culture in Texas.
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Jose Zamora
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José Zamora began his training as a traditional Mexican and Latin American folklorico dancer in La Joya, Texas. After graduating high school, he relocated to Denton, Texas and trained in post-modern dance for four years, receiving his BA in Dance Studies from Texas Woman's University in 2004.
After receiving a degree in dance José pursued a teaching career in Texas between the years of 2004 to 2007. During his career he became District Director of Dance for the Donna Independent School District and later the Co-Director of dance for LakeView Centennial High School's dance Magnet program.
 In 2010, Zamora received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Texas Woman's University, where he was also awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in 2008. This fellowship is awarded by the U.S. Department of Education in selected fields of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It is a prestigious award for students who have demonstrated superior academic ability and achievement and exceptional promise. Only 30 people were awarded this fellowship in the United States in 2008-09. With this award, José produced his first evening length contemporary dance concert titled CholoRock, a work inspired by Mexican-American pop-culture and traditions in November 2008. In 2009 and 2010 Zamora toured and has been touring with his company CholoRock Dance Theatre in North and South Texas, as well as in Cholula, Puebla Mexico where he and his company led a residency in La Universidad de las Americas for the second time in April 2010. In April of 2010 Zamora’s choreography Curios y Serpentinas was selected to be showcased at the American College Dance Festivals National Gala concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Zamora continues to organize lecture demonstrations in which he discusses the importance of Latinos pursuing higher education, using an innovative aesthetic strategy in dance as a tool. He hopes to expand his professional dance company CholoRock Dance Theatre and to become a dance professor. Zamora believes the world should be a place where people of different cultures can learn and coexist.” As stated by Lic. Benito Juarez, “among individuals as among nations, the respect to other people’s rights is peace.” Zamora believes art in education can maintain this peace by teaching students to respect themselves, their past and the world they live in. He strives to create work that reflects multicultural awareness that showcases individual expression and encourages social responsibility.
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