aGUILAS MEXICAN FOLK DANCING COMPANY

We are pleased to launch Agilas Mexican Folk Dance Comapmany under the direction of Irma Hofer. Mrs. Hofer has been involved with dancing since kindergarten in her native Mexico. Her great passion is to share traditions and culture through music and dance. For 39 years she was a dancer, instructor and General Artistic Director of the Ballet Folklórico de las Américas, the first Latin American Folk Dancing group in the State of Utah. She participated in the yearly and international event of Luz de las Naciones as a dancer and choreographer. She was a dancer in the group Herencia Latina, Cantos y Danzas de América, Citlali, and a dancer and Latin Section Leader in the Lamanite Generation at Brigham Young University. She has traveled as a dancer to South America, the South Pacific, Europe, China, and Japan, and throughout the U.S. She is now the director of Aguilas Mexican Folk Dancing Company, a group that promotes Mexican traditions through music and dance.