Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 31—Family members used to tell a young Than Povi Martinez they could envision her one day dancing around the skirts of ...

INTO THE SHOW. IN THE 1930, ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS WERE STILL MAKING THEIR WAY TO SANTA FE. MUCH OF THE DRAW NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE. JACQUES CARTIER, WHO WAS THIS FAMOUS BALLET DANCER FROM NEW YORK, ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Old Man Gloom will soon meet his fiery fate but soon he will have a new arch nemesis as the current Fire Dancer is passing the torch. The current dancer is retiring in 2027, which ...

Can you dance in the dark up and down a set of stairs while holding torches before a crowd of 65,000 people, with a massive bogeyman looming behind you? Organizers of the annual burning of Zozobra are ...

The 50-foot pole on which Zozobra is hung each year for the iconic burning in Fort Marcy Ballpark was bare as the familiar music cut on. About a month from now, the site will be teeming with at least ...

Each Labor Day weekend, Zozobra is set ablaze in Santa Fe, symbolizing the burning away of fears and regrets. Before the flames consume Zozobra, the Fire Spirit dancer ignites the fire, a role Helene ...

. TODD: THE FIRE SPIRIT IS ZOZOBRA’S ARCH-ENEMY. DRESSED IN ALL RED, ARMED WITH A PAIR OF BLAZING TORCHES, WHE YOU SEE THE DANCER, YOU KNOW ZOZOBRA’S REIGN OF TERROR IS ABOUT TO GO UP IN FLAMES. BUT ...