The nonprofit New Mexico Dance Coalition’s board decided to proceed with this year’s festival, so a call went out in a group email in May. The response was tepid, says Jasmine Quinsier, who helps organize the event. “I was freaking out. I thought, ‘I’d better be brushing up on my own dancing.’” Then, after vaccination rates increased to the point that the Governor opened things up in July, everything changed. “All of a sudden, wham, everybody starting coming out of the woodwork,” she says. “I had to ask the city if we could expand the length of our show on the bandstand so we could fit everyone in.

“There are more kids involved this year than ever before,” she says. “We have the XO Company — 3-10 year-olds from NDI (National Dance Institute) — La Emi’s Flamenco Youth de Santa Fe, kids also performing flamenco from Moving Arts Española, and a combination kid and adult group of step dancers from Belisama Irish Dance.”

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