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filmed by Mike Gardner: mike@bassiemike.com
La Mixta Criolla Website: http://www.lamixta.com/home.cfm
This video features Hector Lugo and Javier Navarrette of La Mixta Ciolla with the Global Village Ensemble performing "Güiro Timba Y Bongo" at the de Young Museum:

Hector Lugo: lead vocals and percussion
Javier Navarrette: percussion
Rafael Sarria: vocals
Sascha Jacobsen: bass

Global Village is a multi-disciplinary music and dance performance series curated by musical director Rafael Sarria & La Gente Productionz. the performances will take place August 3rd & 10th at The de Young Museum in conjunction with the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit. For over thirty five years Jean Paul Gaultier has created an artistic legacy that deconstructs our preconceptions of identity and culture as well as abrasively juxtaposing contradictory and complimentary visions of beauty and absurdity. In these performances we will attempt to reflect this vision using sound and motion.

In the same way that Jean Paul Gaultier has fused aspects of older classic fashion sensibilities with modern, urban and street styles, we will utilize classic forms of music and dance and marry them to modern innovative genres. We will focus on music and dance as poignant tools to highlight the cultural diversity of Gaultier's influences and contrasting cultural identities. We also plan to feature Bay Area artistic movements that subvert traditional forms of dance and music in order to attack our narrow definitions of gender, constantly reinventing our masculine and feminine roles.

This collaboration will feature members of La Gente, Dholrhythms Dance Company, Sascha Jacobsen & Trio Garufa, Raw-G, Nicole Klaymoon's The Embodiment Project, DJ Lady Ryan, and La Mixta Criolla.
They will be performing everything from Regggae to Bhangra, to Tango to Hip-Hop, to modern dance, to soul and electronic compositions. This event will be part of the Friday Nights at the de Young from 6-8:45 and is FREEE!!!

1. La Mixta Criolla:
http://www.lamixta.com/home.cfm
Led by Héctor Lugo, La Mixta is a music and dance ensemble inspired by the rich and diverse musical culture of Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean. The band's repertoire of originals and funky renditions of classic pieces, features a variety of swinging Latin Caribbean grooves.

2. La Gente:
http://lagentemusicsf.com/fr_home.cfm
Led by Rafael Sarria this Bay Area based group has forged an original high energy musical style and performance fusing Colombina Cumbia, Hip-Hop, and Jamaican Reggae. The group has toured internationally and continues to spread a message of cultural unity.

3. Sascha Jacobsen & Trio Garufa:
http://www.saschajacobsen.com/
Sascha Jacobson is a bassits and composer who with his groups "Musical Art Quintet" & "Trio Garufa" has created a progressive and eclectic sound based of traditional Argentine Tango blended with electronic compositions.

4. DJ Lady Ryan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnP9lcxBRPI
Dj Lady Ryan is a Dj and Jazz vocalist who draws from Soul, Jazz, House and Hip-Hop in every performance. She recently performed and promoted the SF Pride 2012 woman's stage.

5. Raw-G:
http://www.raw-g.com/
Born and raised in Gaudalajara Mexico, Raw-G brings her own cross-cultural, multi-lingual politically charged Hip-Hop to the ensemble. Her passionate and aggressive performances challenge our musical and gender preconceptions of Hip-Hop culture.

6. Dholrhythms Dance Company:
http://dholrhythms.ning.com/
Dholyhthms is an organization dedicated to promoting the artistic and cultural heritage of India through the beautiful Bhangra and Giddha folk dances of Punjab, India

7. Nicole Klaymoon's The Embodiment Project:
http://www.embodimentproject.org/
As part of a new generation of artists that work in urban dance forms, EP pays tribute to the forgotten struggles of pioneering street dancers as well as promotes a visionary perspective on traditional modern dance.