This Is Yugen: Finding Beauty In The NJ Dance Community
Xavier Boone
July 3, 2024
Yugen Dance Project founder Gabriel Aniel and member John Victor told us how dance can become so important.
Yugen Dance Project founder Gabriel Aniel and member John Victor told us how dance can become so important.
Now, four years later, and at 19 and 22 respectively, we’ve been driving around listening to “Hit Me Hard and Soft” in the same silent agreement that Billie Eilish has grown more confident in the last four years, right along with the two of us.
“With Zumba and ballroom I felt like my confidence went super high and ever since then I just feel unstoppable and I don’t care what people have to say about me. I know who I am and that is what I want to provide to everybody,” the West New York resident said.
Nearly every Latino and Caribbean country has a meat-filled pastry bursting with flavor. Pastelitos are the Dominican Republic’s version of this pastry.
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Now, nearly eight decades later, Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-way player Shohei Ohtani has captivated the world in a similar way, but this time for Asians and Asian Americans.
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It’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we’re cooking up a saucy, spicy and tangy dish originating in the Sichuan region known as Szechuan Chicken. The dish has multiple name variations and can be seen on a Chinese-American menu as Sichuan, Szechwan, Szechuan or Mala chicken. The chicken
If we work together to support projects that represent the Asian community well, I believe more representation will arise from that. Learn AAPI History said.
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