With a twirl of his skirt, Jacob Soto taps his strappy high-heels in time to the music, the very image of his all-gay dance company`s bold reinvention of Mexico`s traditional folk dances. Soto first discovered the dance company, `Mexico in Color,` when he went to one of their shows. The 28-year-old psychologist says it was love at first sight. `I said, `Wow! I want to be up there. I don`t know how I`m going to do it, but I want to be up there. I don`t know how to put on make-up, I don`t know how to dance in heels, but I want to be up there with them,` he says, his eyes painted in an elaborate feline look topped by enormous fake eyelashes. Mexico in Color takes `ballet folklorico,` Mexico`s beloved traditional folk dance, and mashes it with the flamboyant transgression of drag. Instead of virile men in sombreros twirling dainty women in flowing skirts around
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