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Houston, TX, United States, 2012/04/26 - MECA is excited to bring the ensemble, Yetlanezi, to its stage. Yetlanezi is a unique mixture of textures and sounds: organic Pre-Columbian instruments, mestizo Mexico, along with electronica, the synthesized sounds from today's digital age.
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Ceacatl and Topiltzin Borsegui are members of the musical family ensemble, Huehuetl, of Tonalá, Mexico that performs indigenous dances and music with costumes and instruments representative of ancient cultures such as the Mayan, Olmec, and Aztec. With Huehuetl, the Borsegui brothers have performed indigenous Mexican music at educational and cultural centers across the U.S., Mexico, Macao, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and other embassies across the world. Their new project, Yetlanezi, is an emerging project that weaves together the musical influences that have defined their world into an exciting mixture not to be missed. Yetlanezi's performance at MECA will be their debut premiere performance. Yetlanezi’s performance is part of MECA’s Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Concert Series.
MECA Performing Arts
MECA (meca-houston.org) is a community-based nonprofit organization committed to the healthy development of underserved youth and adults through arts and cultural programming, academic excellence, support services and community building. MECA has served the Houston community as a cultural center for 35 years. Although MECA is renowned for its pioneering work in ethnic arts education through such disciplines as mariachi and Mexican ballet folklórico, MECA nonetheless continually seeks new methods through which disparate and underserved communities — especially youth —
can find common ground through the arts.
This is exemplified by MECA’s interest in the innovation of time-honored practices, the artists whose work traverses the boundaries of tradition, and the critical role the arts play in the social fabric of daily life. The result is that MECA audiences experience the arts – folkloric, classical or avantgarde – as open to new methods of expression and modes of purpose rather than hardened by history.
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