Performing Arts Series:
¡Zamacueca!: Dances of Perú, Mexico, Chile,
Argentina, and Bolivia
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Date: Sunday, June 4, 2006 Time: 2PM Location: Mexican Heritage Plaza
Tickets: $12 /$8 (discounts for advance ticket sales) Tickets: 408.928.5517 or 408.928.5563 (leave a message) Box Office opens 12noon day of event
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Fifteen musicians and forty dancers including “De Rompe y Raja”, “Los Lupeños de San José”, “Araucaria”, and “Efraín Escobar, Aide Sickinger and Gabriel Escobar” join forces to weave the magical tale of the Zamacueca, the grandmother of Afro-Peruvian dance.
“¡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.
