Peru Canta y Baila!
De Rompe y Raja, Kanchis and El Tunante
Friday July 27, 2007
$15 adv. - 8pm
Celebrate Peruvian independence day with three of the most acclaimed Peruvian dance companies: De Rompe y Raja, Kanchis, and El Tunante. Music and dances from Peru, including tonderos, marineras norteñas, Afro-Peruvian and Andean music. With special guests Rosa Los Santos and Marina La Valle.
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Formed in 1998, El Tunante’s Marinera is a graceful dance bearing influences of the Afro-Peruvians, Incas with liberal dashes of French minuets and the Spanish jota and fandango, all to infectious lyrics. The men were dressed formally in black, flourishing a hat, the women, in voluminous mid-calf length skirts, barefoot. Both twirled white handkerchief as they moved around each other, never touching. The unexpected delight in this fourteen person ensemble was a pre-teen couple with enormous poise, the young man with the aplomb and precision of a practiced matador.
Marina LaValle is an acclaimed singer and dancer born in Lima, Perú. Lavalle started singing at age 8, where singing was a family tradition. She became the lead singer with the renowned performance company, Perú Negro. She has also performed with Sonero Clasico del Caribe and La Sonora Caracas in Venezuela.
