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...bring U.S. Latino students and students from Latin America together, which is very important in terms of a more transnational Latino cultural vision,” he says. Performances in this year’s show range from traditional folkloric dancing—complete with costumes—to spoken-word readings and modern candela hip-hop. “Candela hip-hop fuses the hip-hop culture with the Latin culture, and Reggaeton has become really big in the past five years,” Rosa says. “That is what brings the traditional and the modern...
...choruses are so sublimely immersed in living sonics—and balanced ingeniously against verses with little more than drums and vocals—that the transitions between the two are huge, bright, and explosive. The listener can’t help but cringe at the brief, shamelessly emo spoken-word digression of the Graveyard Girl herself, but it’s forgiven by the time “found sounds” and computer whirrs lead it out. For a band named after another galaxy, “We Own The Sky” seems like an appropriate Reagan...
...opens the album, plunging forward with a grating guitar crunch and the dull moan of church organs. The Bad Seeds chant the chorus like oarsmen on a Viking ship: “Dig yourself / Laz’rus, dig yourself / Back in that hole.” In sarcastic spoken-word, Cave recounts the mournful wanderings of post-tomb Lazarus, whose brief encounter with fame in modern America ends “back on the streets in New York City / In a soup queue / A dope fiend / A slave / Then prison / Then the madhouse / Then the grave...
...performances with “Cirque du Soleil.” This included flipping in and out of the hoop, hanging by her feet, and spinning wildly with her legs extended. Although it must have taken a significant amount of strength, Rollins made the entire performance seem effortless. A spoken-word piece by Gearóid Mac Lachlainn provided the audio for Kit Tempest’s choreography of “Teanga Eile/Second Tongue.” MengYuan “Amily” He ’11 and Joffe wore black leotards and tights with a white...
...show during amateur nights. The crowd’s reaction dictates all—offending acts are booed off-stage, and the winner is voted in by enthusiastic cheers. The show’s acts varied in genre as well as skill, including dance performances, a vocalist, a spoken-word artist, a guitarist, and—of course—several requisite references to Soulja Boy. Rejection wasn’t always determined by talent: the undergraduate dance group Expressions kicked off the night with a high-tech display, and the audience was quick to boo a glitch...