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class in the summer, composed primarily of female students who were in need of male dance partners. Zamarripa, along with other students from the art department, joined and he began dancing there with no formal training. When summer classes ended, the dance students wanted to continue dancing on
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and eventually started making his own. He used sticks, paper, and cardboard to make the puppets and dressed them with fabric. At the age of eight his parents sent him to work with a
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wrote, directed, and produced a 50-minute documentary the focused on
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their own, so they formed a local student group that met every
Saturday. They practiced regional folk dances, traditional
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technique (a teaching method that uses drums to perfect dancers' footwork), and the creation of the
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Zamarripa discovered his interest and talent in art at an early age. As a child, he was amazed by
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José Clemente Orozco's monument, an artwork by
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