Los Lupeños de San José in
¡Zamacueca!: Dances of Perú, Mexico, Chile,
Argentina, and Bolivia
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Date: Sunday, January 22, 2006 Time: 3pm Location:
Tickets: $18 General /$12 students Stanford Ticket Office: (650) 725-2787 Information: (510) 712-5516
Project funded in part by a grant from Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grants
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Fifteen musicians and forty dancers including “Los Lupeños de San José”, “De Rompe y Raja”, “Marcelo & Romina”, “Araucaria”, and “Efron and Ivon Escobar” join forces to weave the magical tale of the Zamacueca, the grandmother of Afro-Peruvian dance.
Los Lupeños de San José uses the powerful and seductive rhythms of the chilena, a Mexican dance that traces itself back to the zamacueca of Afro-Peruvian origin, to tell its own story of this 150-year-old dance and musical genre that continues as a beloved social dance in the Costa Chica of Mexico today.
“¡Zamacueca!” documents the origin and diffusion of the zamacueca as it disseminated through Peru, the leading power in Latin America at the end of Spanish colonial reign, to Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico due to massive commercial enterprise that had its hub at Lima. The project establishes a common heritage for the people of African, Mexican and other Latin American descent. These are communities with a strong presence in San José Silicon Valley.