Peru Negro
- January 30 and 31, 2008
- University Theatre
- 222 York Street
“Soulful music and sensuous dancing!”
— The New York Times
Photo from the Peru Negro Private Collection.
Expect an unforgettable evening of music and dance from the Grammy-nominated group the Los Angeles Times calls “a non-stop carnival of rhythm”. Fusing the percussive rhythms of West Africa, Cuba, and Peru, the ensemble performs traditional and original Afro-Peruvian music on familiar instruments as well as on imaginatively homemade ones—a ten-piece band beats on wooden crates, claps tithing boxes, and shakes a donkey jawbone like a tambourine. All the while dancers and musicians lead us on an astounding trip through a variety of Afro-Peruvian dances.
Inspired by civil rights movements worldwide, Ronald Campos founded Peru Negro in 1969 to preserve and celebrate his country’s African heritage. Now a leading exponent of Afro-Peruvian music and dance, the government of Peru has officially made the group “Ambassadors of Peruvian Culture.”
Learn more and hear samples from their CD at: perunegro.org
View a video clip of Peru Negro.
Songs performed in Spanish.
SYMPOSIA: World Performance at 220 York St., Ballroom.
Co-sponsored by World
Performance Project at Yale (WPP) and Whitney
Humanities Center
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