Overview
- Presented on October 23 at the Fondo de Cultura Económica’s Rosario Castellanos bookstore in Mexico City, the launch drew Governor Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and FCE director Paco Ignacio Taibo II.
- Coordinated by researchers Humberto Urquiza Marín and Manuel García Contreras, the book features photography by Florence Leyret.
- The catalog records more than 500 dances still practiced in Michoacán and about 100 traditions that have disappeared over time.
- Editors link the project to a 1983–84 census of dance, theater and related expressions carried out under the Programa de Apoyo a la Danza.
- Editorial Cuarta República director Carlos Gutiérrez Márquez said copies will be provided at no cost to Michoacán communities and educational institutions, aligning with broader reading promotion efforts.