Support Imagen y Espíritu Ballet Folklórico de Cal Poly

Help Imagen y Espíritu Ballet Folklórico de Cal Poly expand our closet to bring back our folklórico showcase!

Imagen y Espíritu Ballet Folklórico de Cal Poly is a student organization dedicated to celebrating and sharing Mexican culture through traditional folklórico dance. Our club brings together students from across Cal Poly who share a passion for dance, culture, community and performance. Through rehearsals and performances, we aim to preserve traditional dances while creating a welcoming space where students can connect with their heritage or learn about the diversity of Mexican culture. 

Mexico is home to a wide variety of regions, each with its own unique traditions, music and styles of folklórico dance. In our club, Imagen y Espíritu, we want to represent more of these regions by expanding our collection of traditional outfits to give us opportunities to learn and perform a wider variety of dances. Many of our important performances, such as Illuminate and Poly Cultural Weekend, allow us to share these traditions with the students at Cal Poly and San Luis Obispo communities while creating meaningful experiences for our members. 

Our club has been established since 1990, and we have built a strong sense of community and belonging through dance. However, many of the outfits we still use are decades old and showing significant wear. Some have become difficult to repair or replace, challenging our ability to represent the regions and traditions we hope to celebrate.

In the past, our club has organized a full-length baile folklórico showcase, allowing our dancers to represent our variety of different regions and traditions that they have poured countless hours into learning. However, this tradition has been lost to time. We hope to bring it back by creating a new showcase that can bring together our members, families, friends and the Cal Poly community for an evening dedicated to celebrating Mexican culture through dance. Funding plays a crucial role in making this goal possible by helping us obtain outfits, props, music, a venue and other resources necessary to put on a production that can represent our roots.

Reviving this tradition would not only give our dancers a meaningful performance opportunity but also help us build a lasting legacy for future generations of Imagen y Espíritu. Your support will directly help us maintain and expand our performances, obtain and maintain traditional costumes and equipment, attend cultural events and performances and provide our members with more opportunities to learn and grow as dancers. Most importantly, your contribution helps us continue sharing Mexican culture with the Cal Poly community and beyond.

Thank you for your support!