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Areytos Performance Works

In Batey y Macorix: Senderos de Carbon / Carbon Pathways, Areytos Performance Works debuts a new collaboration of dance theater and live music featuring nine dancers and a live band with guest artists: Genaro Ozuna, Afro-Dominican folkloric dancer and Alexander Callender, master drummer. The performance explores the convergence of Gagá and Guloya, two distinct African-Caribbean traditions in the Dominican Republic, and their resonance in popular music and dance, most notably merengue. Batey y Macorix was developed at the crossroads of traditional and contemporary dance and reflects on immigration and ethnic identity.

This production is part of the Hostos Center's Young Roots Performance Series that, over the next two years, will showcase emerging artists experimenting with the artistic roots of Afro-Latino traditions to create new branches that reach into the future. Sponsored by the Hostos Community College Foundation with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation's NYC Cultural Innovation Fund, 2010-2012. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Los Monstritos is an ensemble of young, virtuoso percussionists who hurtle headlong into a variety of Latin musical genres – from plena to bachata, from bomba to boogalu, salsa, rumba and merengue, but with their own twist reflecting the hip-hop and reggaetón rhythms of their neighborhoods. They are: Nelson Matthew González, scion of one the great families of Afro-Puerto Rican music; Oreste Abrantes, a Cuban-Puerto Rican powerhouse conguero; Jason González, bongo virtuoso, and Kyle Matthews, grandson of the Afro-Puerto Rican folklorist Emilio Escobar. They are joined in their debut concert by the legendary, one-and-only cuatro virtuoso Yomo Toro, accompanied by Aurora & Orquesta Zon del Barrio. Los Monstritos are pupils of some of the greatest Latin percussion masters in New York. Their music is sometimes hip, sometimes steeped in nostalgia…and it explodes into the future.

This production is part of the Hostos Center's Young Roots Performance Series that, over the next two years, will showcase emerging artists experimenting with the artistic roots of Afro-Latino traditions to create new branches that reach into the future. Sponsored by the Hostos Community College Foundation with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation's NYC Cultural Innovation Fund, 2010-2012. Additional support provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.