(noticia) Arts: An Evening of Film and Dance at La Peña

By Justin DeFreitas

Though Eve A. Ma traveled the world, she spends much of her time trying to bring that world back home to the rest of us. Ma is the entrepreneurial force behind Palomino Productions, a Berkeley-based company producing DVDs and television programs on the art of dance.

As a writer, professor, dancer and now as a producer and director, Ma has devoted years to honoring and promoting diversity in the arts. Her latest work, Improvising Jerez-Style, will be screened at 8 p.m. tonight (Friday) at La Peña Cultural Center in South Berkeley as part of a program of film and live performance. The evening’s entertainment will include a second film, Arts That Cross Borders, a compendium of previous Palomino programs about Mexican, Afro-Peruvian and Ecuadorian performers living in the Bay Area. Live entertainment will include the Afro-Peruvian group de Rompe y Raja, Mexican dance troupe Grupo Folklorico, and Ma herself dancing flamenco.

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tags: flamenco, baile, cante, flamenca