Indigenous Mexican folklorico dance in La Mesa Village has been preserved since 1967 by Ballet Folklorico en Aztlan, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dance company and academy on La Mesa Boulevard. Founded by Herminia A. Enrique and now led by Artistic Director Viviana C. Enrique Acosta, the company blends traditional Mexican regional dance with contemporary choreographic movement and performs at cultural festivals and civic events hosted at venues like La Mesa Community Center. Members of the original ensemble helped establish San Diego's Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park, anchoring the company's role in the broader Chicano arts movement. The academy's name references the concept of Aztlán — the ancestral homeland of the Mexica people in the American Southwest — and its curriculum preserves the Indigenous choreographic vocabulary displayed alongside visual arts at Porter Hall. Identified as Indigenous-owned, Latino-owned, LGBTQ+-owned, and women-owned, the company maintains an intergenerational training pipeline from children's classes through a touring performance ensemble executing traditional zapateado footwork, skirt-work, and ribbon choreography from more than a dozen Mexican states.