
“Each person has their personal dance, and there are all kinds of dances - honor dances, prayer dances, medicine dances - but they’re all in step with the drum.

“I remember my father saying, ‘watch their feet and try to do what you see,’ ” said Florendo, 17, who will serve as the head male dancer at the Traditional Pow Wow at Heritage High School on March 7.

Justice Florendo’s earliest childhood memory is of perching at the edge of the arena and watching carefully while dazzling dancers interpreted traditional moves in countless individual ways.
