Congo Dreams

Congo is a type of dance originated from a part of Panama called colon. The story of the dress is that a long time ago, the women who were slaves would put rags together to make a dress and put flowers in their hair so they could dance. Now, the Congo dress my sisters and I wear to dance are made out of pretty fabrics and sewn together, we wear beaded necklaces and bracelets and fake flowers in our hair and dance in a beautifully messy way to tell the story of Colon's past.