I never thought it would grow into this. After one of my daughters, Jennifer, had a school project on butterflies, tracking their development from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly, we called ourselves Las Mariposas. It's all about development. Change within yourself. The group has grown since then.
Girls come and go with a steady base of about forty girls.
The growth includes the community because the parents are a part of it. The troupe has grown as far as dancing and numbers, but one of the most beautiful things is that a lot of the mothers have found support from each other. In Spanish we say, carnalismo, which means brotherhood, but in this case it's sisterhood. In Mariposas, the parents have to come to the parenting meetings, or their children cannot perform with the troupe. You need to teach responsibility.