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Who’s Peruvian? Film “Soy Andina” documents two dancers’ search for identity
Who is Peruvian? Who is Andean? Can a Peruvian dancer who’s made a new life in New York City return after 15 years to her remote hometown in the Andes to reclaim her heritage? Can a young American of mixed Peruvian and Puerto Rican heritage find her “inner Andina” (as I like to call it) by studying folkloric dance techniques in towns throughout Peru? These questions and more are raised in Soy Andina (“I Am Andean”), a full-length documentary film in English and Spanish by American director Mitch Teplitsky. The movie follows two the journeys of two dancers, Nelida, from the Peruvian highlands, and Cynthia, from Queens, New York, as they live out their dreams of (re)connecting with their…


