Fuego Nuevo es un grupo de personas dedicadas a rescatar, preservar y difundir la cultura antigua Mesoamericana. El grupo trata de ser una estructura fuerte y organizada, anclada en los valores de libertad y dignidad para cada persona que ha tenido la necesidad de dejar su país natal y su forma de vida tradicional. Promovemos la concientización del sentido de preservación y respeto por el medio ambiente siguendo las tradiciones antiguas.

En el presente, Fuego Nuevo a emprendido la tarea de proveer entrenamiento intensivo en varias áreas de la cultura Precolombina, enfocándose en la danza prehispánica y los rituales asociados a ésta. Otra iniciativa ha sido la demostraci­­ón del Juego de Pelota Mesoamericano, un juego y ritual practicado por casi todas las civilizaciones más importantes de Mesoamérica.

Los miembros del grupo han podido construir y preservar los plumajes, escudos y ropajes asociados a con las danzas y los rituales de las celebraciones Precolombinas. La danza Azteca, en sí misma, tiene sus origenes en la cultura que se desarroll­­ó a lo largo del mundo antiguo Mesoamericano, donde la danza era, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los componentes más importantes de los rituales ceremoniales sagrados.

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Fuego Nuevo's performance at Philadelphia's "Feria del Barrio" 2008

FUEGO NUEVO is a group of people dedicated to the rescue, preservation and diffusion of ancient Mesoamerican culture. The group aims to build a strong organized structure anchored on the values of freedom and dignity for every person who has been in the need of leaving their native country and their traditional way of living. We promote a sense of awareness for the preservation and respect of the environment in the ancient traditional ways.

Currently, Fuego Nuevo is embarking in providing intensive training in several areas of the Pre-Columbian culture, focusing on pre-Hispanic dance, and the rituals associated to this. Another initiative has been the demonstration of the Mesoamerican Ballgame, a game and ritual practiced almost by every mayor civilization in Mesoamerica.

Members of the group have been able to construct and preserve the feathered costumes, shields, and regalia accompanying the dances and rituals of pre-Columbian celebrations. The Aztec Dance itself has its origins in the culture that was developed along the Mesoamerican ancient world, where dance was, without a doubt, one of the most important components of the sacred ceremonial rituals.

Fuego Nuevo received the "Social Justice Education Award 2008"

at the Annual Romero Lecture at Rutgers University

The Aztec Dance

The AZTEC DANCE, as we know it today, has its origins in the cultures that were developed along the Mesoamerican ancient world. The splendorous and marvelous metropolis of Teotihuacan, Xochicalco, Tenayuca, Teotenanco, Calixtlahuaca, Tula, Tenochtitlan, and Cholula among many other ones. All these places had plazas and open spaces where amazing ceremonial rituals were developed, and the dances were one of the most important components of these sacred, ceremonial rituals.

All the ancient cultures original of Mexico, in large account, show their dedication to the Dance. We have a variety of samples in the ancient manuscripts, sculptures, murals, ceramics, oral accounts and chronicles. It is from these chronicles that we have a better idea of the importance of the dance in the ancient world.

There were special buildings dedicated exclusively to the learning of these traditions, called “CUICACALLI,” or "house of the singers," where the little children had the opportunity of getting an education in singing, music, and dancing . There is no doubt that this was a school of higher education in the ancient Aztec world. The fact that there was a sacred place dedicated to these arts, speaks of the social importance they had and have in a performance that is profoundly ceremonial and sacred.