The festival, created in 1997 by the director of the company Neri Torres, is a strategic and necessary space to promote dialogue between Afro-Cuban dances and those similar embodied expressions that thrive outside formal or conceptual dance. In the age of diversity, equity, and inclusion, it is important to highlight the sense of belonging, pride and joy dances from the people of the Diaspora bring to our communities. Recognizing the many roots and routes of immigrant populations in Miami, the festival program also celebrates the interdependency of cultural traits among and between Cubans, Latin-Americans, Anglo-Americans, Europeans and other peoples of Caribbean and African origins.