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Banda dance comes from northwest Mexico, where young men and women in cowboy hats and impossibly tight jeans and shirts merged tuba-driven polkas and country music to create a frenetic, bouncy dance style called the quebradita, or little break. Don’t buy those jeans too tight. And now we have the latest of Hispanic dances, invented right here by U.S. Latinos. Hyphy banda adds hip-hop rhythms and steps. Duranguense blends banda from the Mexican state of Durango with merengue dance from the Dominican Republic. If these origins make you dizzy, wait until you try them on the dance floor.
Expect delightful street-food eats from 12 vendors including Binka Bites, Shades of Sugar and FK Frozen Custard plus Filipino music, dance and ballet shoe cross stitch pattern fashion, Listen for Bay Area pioneer turntablists DJ QBert and Shortkut, who will be headlining opening night, and get there early, Ultimately, there’s a reason why 35,000 people showed up for last year’s night markets, There just aren’t a lot of free, family-friendly nighttime events in the Bay Area, And this one just happens to feature one of the hottest cuisines of the moment..
Related ArticlesOregon’s most spectacular coastal bridgesStorm-watching is an actual activity on the Oregon coast. Now we understand why. We’d booked a three-day stay at Ocean Haven, a cozy, environmentally conscious lodging just south of Yachats. As it happened, our visit coincided with an epic deluge that washed the whole Pacific Northwest. Our room, perched on the edge of a bluff facing what Michael Burgess — author of the hilarious “Uncle Mike’s Guide to the Real Oregon Coast” — describes as “the badly misnamed Pacific Ocean,” creaked and groaned like a three-masted schooner as the storm threw wave after wave of sleet up against the huge picture windows and a lightning storm on the horizon played like a strobe light on the water.
The creators of two premieres haven’t chosen titles for their pieces, One is by Sofranko, who confesses, “I don’t want to give away too much because it’s still evolving, I have the idea of a community and how it deals with outside influences, but without being too literal, The music is so emotional — Schubert’s Impromptus — and ballet shoe cross stitch pattern I’m really moved by them so the piece does have a bit of a story.”, As a bonus, pianist Ronny Michael Greenberg will be performing the Schubert works live..
Frost/Nixon: Through Feb. 10, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. A political prizefight where the cameras roll, the truth spins, and it becomes clear that he who controls the medium controls the message. $40-$100. https://theatreworks.org/. Dragon in the Drop-Off Lane: 5 p.m. Saturdays, through Feb. 23, The Marsh Berkeley, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley. A wry, comedic and incisive look at the profound societal differences between gritty East Bay living and the idealized-to-the-point-of-ridiculous realm of Marin. $20-$100. www.themarsh.org.
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