Music cuts and restarts inside a dance studio in the country’s capital, as dancers count out loud, refining precise transitions late into the night.
V14 is one of many dance studios in the city known for training urban styles like Reggaeton. But tonight, the choreography filling the room comes from halfway across the world.
Empire, a seven-member co-ed dance group, is rehearsing K-pop routines, part of a growing movement of Colombian dancers who are training, competing and building communities around Korean pop music.
Across Latin America, that connection has expanded rapidly, even though it originates thousands of miles away.
“We as Latin people love to party, we love to enjoy music,” said Johanna Valentina Espinosa, Empire’s leader, who performs under the name Vay. “K-pop brings that feeling of friendship and enjoying things together.”
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