Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming arts events to mark your calendar for. The Ballet Folklorico de Mexico high-steps onto the Straz Center stage this weekend with moves that look less like ballet and more like the upbeat, high-energy fusion of traditional and modern steps you might see in a Mexican bar (albeit a bar full of good-looking people with impeccable rhythm, all wearing matching clothes) — complete with a mariachi band, natch. (Photo by Robert Shomler) Sat., Feb. 13, 3 and 7 p.m., Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 N. MacInnes Place, Tampa, $29.50-$39.50, strazcenter.org.
This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2010.