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Mosaic America: Journey Through Multicultural Jazz & Dance

Aug 13, Sunday - 1pm
Hammer Theatre Stage

Journey Through Multicultural Jazz & Dance is a thrilling showcase of global traditions that are practiced in Silicon Valley today, with groups presenting music and movement styles rooted in the traditions of Georgia, India, Mexico, and the Silk Road. The performance was commissioned by Mosaic America, a nonprofit organization that fosters belonging by connecting multicultural people to place and history.

ReroRera Duo is in a continuous search for common grounds, paths and, ultimately, a common expressive language of different ethnic musical traditions. Zaza Korinteli, better known by his stage name Zumba, is a Georgian ethnic-jazz-rock musician and musicologist whose music fuses Georgian folk tradition and other world music inspirations. Sergey Prokushkin is a jazz pianist and composer with a multicultural background focusing on a variety of world folk music with South American, Middle Eastern and European flavor. 

Simorgh Dance Collective, led by Farima Berenji, creates a bridge between music and movement through her renditions of traditions from Persia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, while visually linking the audience to India, a stop along the Silk Road.

Xpressions Dance creates immersive experiences of India through dynamic movements tapping into the spontaneous energies of the dancers and the audience, while seamlessly collaborating with the Mexican tradition.

Dancer/choreographer Arturo Magaña, who battled criticism and homophobia to create the world’s first LGBTQ+ Mexican folkloric dance troupe, Ensamble Folclórico Colibrí, concludes the journey by demonstrating the power of narrative within dance, with Spanish influenced and original Mexican music and dance.

ReroRera Duo is in a continuous search for common grounds, paths and, ultimately, a common expressive language of different ethnic musical traditions. Zaza Korinteli, better known by his stage name Zumba, is a Georgian ethnic-jazz-rock musician and musicologist whose music fuses Georgian folk tradition and other world music inspirations. Sergey Prokushkin is a jazz pianist and composer with a multicultural background focusing on a variety of world folk music with South American, Middle Eastern and European flavor. 

Simorgh Dance Collective, led by Farima Berenji, creates a bridge between music and movement through her renditions of traditions from Persia, Azerbaijan and Turkey, while visually linking the audience to India, a stop along the Silk Road.

Xpressions Dance creates immersive experiences of India through dynamic movements tapping into the spontaneous energies of the dancers and the audience, while seamlessly collaborating with the Mexican tradition.

Dancer/choreographer Arturo Magaña, who battled criticism and homophobia to create the world’s first LGBTQ+ Mexican folkloric dance troupe, Ensamble Folclórico Colibrí, concludes the journey by demonstrating the power of narrative within dance, with Spanish influenced and original Mexican music and dance.