Sumaj Tusuy

05/31/2026

Last weekend we had the opportunity to present our work with the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship program 2026 ✨ Our Costa teacher Ena Casasola and apprentice Lucía Morales worked together to teach and choreograph Tondero for the Florida Folk Festival.

Muchas gracias a todos los bailarines que se dedicaron a aprender y ensayar para participar en este evento. Gracias Esthepany, Bea, Madeleine, Yoselyn, RJ, Edward, y Rudy por su dedicación a esta presentación. We have been preparing for months and are so happy to have participated in this years Folk Festival.

Thank you to Dominick Tartaglia for giving us this platform to share what we do and what we are passionate about. Gracias a nuestra directora Betty Caloretti (Lucy Perez).

05/14/2026

White Springs, here we come ☀️🎶🇵🇪

Join us at the Florida Folk Festival, a 3-day celebration of music, dance, storytelling, and culture from around the world. We are honored to share the beauty of Tondero from Piura, Peru with talks and performances throughout the festival.

This year, our Master of Tondero Ena Casasola and apprentice Lucia Morales will be presenting the rich traditions, rhythm, and spirit of Peru’s northern coast. Our group has worked with so much dedication and cariño preparing this presentation, and we are excited to share the result with all of you ❤️

From our very first class to this stage, it has been a beautiful journey of learning, growth, and preserving culture through dance. We hope you can join us and celebrate with us at this amazing festival ✨

📍 Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center, White Springs, FL
📅 May 22 ⏰ 2:30-3pm 🏟️ Folklife Area
📅 May 23 ⏰ 4:30-5pm 🏟️ Folklife Area
📅 May 24 ⏰ 12-12:30pm 🏟️ Folklife Area

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05/08/2026

Folklife Apprenticeship Program
The Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program supports the preservation of folklife and traditional arts through one-on-one apprenticeships, recognizing the value of folklife and traditional arts in Florida while enabling participants to work together to maintain and share traditional knowledge, skills, and techniques. At the end of the apprenticeship term, the master artists and apprenticeships take to the folklife stage to demonstrate the finished product from their months of classes.

Apprenticeship Master Ena Casasola, from Homestead, Florida by way of Lima, is a master dancer and choreographer of dances from Peru’s coastal region. Upon moving to South Florida, Ena joined Sumaj Tusuy, a dance company founded by past Apprenticeship Program Master Artist Betty Caloreytti. Sumaj Tusuy specializes in Andean dance of La Sierra, as well as cultural outreach which preserves and promotes indigenous Peruvian cultural heritage across South Florida.

Lucia Morales, one of the principal dancers of the group, has been dancing with Ena for many years and considers her a mentor and family member. Through the Apprenticeship Program, Ena is training Lucia in her specialty of dance and folk culture of La Costa. At the Folklife Stage, you will see a Costal dance choreographed by Ena and Lucia, performed by Sumaj Tusuy.

Learn more about the apprenticeship program here: https://dos.fl.gov/cultural/programs/florida-folklife-program/apprenticeship-program/

04/24/2026

El año pasado fuimos parte del programa Florida Folklife Program cual apoyó a nuestra directora Betty Caloretti Lucy Perez y su aprendiz Edward Bautista a trabajar con la danza tradicional: K'ajelo.

Thank you Florida Folklife!

Sumaj Tusuy: Florida Folk Festival 2025 Highlights

04/17/2026

En La Yunza de La Familia Sulca 🎉✨


Muchas gracias por la invitación a celebrar con ustedes! Nos gustaría reconocer la importancia de nuestra comunidad y de mantener vivas nuestras tradiciones. Agradecemos a la familia Sulca por difundir nuestra música y tradiciones durante tantos años. Fue un placer bailar los Carnavales de Ayacucho representando a nuestro querida comparsa Cangallo Corazón 💜💛

De la misma manera, agradecemos a los padrinos de La Yunza- Angie Neyra Bellido y Joseph Quinto 🎉🎉🎉

We would like to recognize the importance of our community and keeping our traditions alive. Thank you to the Sulca family for being stewards of our music and traditions for so many years. We were happy to dance carnavales de Ayacucho representing our beloved Cangallo Corazón 💜💛

04/12/2026

El Jueves bailamos Huaylarsh!

Muy agradecidas con los estudiantes Peruanos de La Universidad de Maryland- University of Maryland, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, y Indigenous Futures Lab- por la invitación a compartir sobre el Huaylarsh y dar un taller danzas con ellos 💃🏽🙌🏽✨ Nos divertimos muchísimo! Gracias tambien a nuestro filial en el DMV - Sumaj Tusuy DMV

We are deeply grateful to the Peruvian students at the University of Maryland—specifically the Peruvian Students Club, The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Indigenous Futures Lab—for the invitation to share about Huaylarsh and to lead a dance workshop with them. 💃🏽🙌🏽✨ We had so much fun!

03/24/2026

Los esperamos en La Yunza de la Familia Sulca para bailar y g***r juntos 🎉✨

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03/22/2026

Our Costa teacher Ena Casasola and dancer Lucía Morales are representing Sumaj Tusuy Miami as Master and Apprentice with the Folklife Florida Apprenticeship program 2026 ✨💃

We will be presenting the Tondero, dance from the northern coast of Perú at the Folklife Festival in May. We are grateful for this recognition and support from the Folklife program to continue learning and sharing our traditions. As always we continue dancing and learning together.

03/11/2026

Compartiendo mas fotitos y videos de nuestro viaje a Ayacucho y Cangallo 🫶🏽 lindos momentos con amistades y familia. Siempre bailando!

02/28/2026

No hay palabras para expresar lo que significó para nosotros, como ayllu de danza, estar presentes y celebrar los carnavales en Cangallo, cuna y tierra de nuestra directora y nuestra abuelita Oti. Estamos muy agradecidos de formar parte de esta comunidad de danza y de nuestra comparsa por darnos la bienvenida para bailar juntos y celebrar nuestras raíces, tradiciones y nuestro Cangallo. También estamos inmensamente agradecidos con nuestros amigos Brando A. Pardo .pardo y Apolo Bautista .bautista de Ciarosé .producciones , quienes nos acompañaron en este viaje y capturaron estos momentos tan especiales de forma tan hermosa. Todas las fotografías credito a Brando A. Pardo. Muchísimas gracias por compartir estos momentos con nosotros y por bailar y celebrar con nosotros también!

Words cannot express what it meant to us as a dance ayllu to be present and celebreate carnavales in Cangallo, birthplace and forvever home to our director and our abuelita Oti. We are so grateful to be part of this dance community and to our comparsa Cangallo Corazón for welcoming us to dance together in celebration of our roots, traditions, and Cangallo. We are also immensely grateful for our friends Brando A. Pardo and Apolo Bautista of Ciarosé who accompanied us on this trip and captured these very special moments so beautifully. All photographs credited to Brando A. Pardo. Thank you so much for sharing these moments with us, and for dancing and celebrating with us too!