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As our one-week August vacation was nearing an end in Zacatecas, Mexico, my wife Sarah and I had been to around 20 dance performances around the colonial city during the weeklong International Dance Festival. In between the heavy dose of world culture, from Poland to the Canary Islands, France, Chile...

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