with me to celebrate the new year is pedro aquihua perez. reaction when you see images like that, and you hear the sounds of the drums, and you hear the sounds of those acorns on your ankles? pedro aquihua perez: yeah, definitely. well, it's an adrenaline rush, right? it's something that kinda gets the blood boiling, in a good way of course. you know, very excited, and it just takes me back, right, to our ceremonies and our practices on a weekly basis. damian: for a lot of us who are not familiar with aztec dancing, it looks beautiful, it sounds beautiful, but to you it must be something very spiritual to celebrate. pedro: it is, it is. i mean, you know, it's something different for everybody, right? every individual kind of connects in a different way. you know, we are ceremonial in that way, we're spiritual, and so it has a deep meaning. it kinda brings us together. it centers us, you know? it allows us to continue to work on ourselves, right, in a good way so that we may continue to, you know, really influence the young, the jovenes, you