Travel + Leisure India & South Asia

POWER MOVES

THE YEAR I TURNED 30, I decided it was time to make my ancestors proud—or at least stop disgracing them. So I quit my job in Brooklyn, shoved my stuff into storage, and moved to the colonial city of Querétaro to become more Mexican. My goal was to improve my Spanish, but on my way to class that first day, I got distracted by a joyous sound. or folk dance. They were uniformly radiant as they sashayed with their partners across a floor that doubled as an instrument. Together, they pounded and clattered their feet against the wooden slats, each beat amplified by the nails in their shoes. Their energy was kinetic, their smiles ebullient.

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