The Beautiful Lila

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Originally uploaded by tawnillia.

I should be studying for my Spanish final, but I can't get last night's show out of my head. We saw Lila Downs at the Rio Theatre. I was not prepared to experience her presence. She was so proud and fluid and elegantly sustained. I've never seen a show where the performer beatboxed to a traditional Mexican folksong, sang in the indigenous Mayan language, danced like her life was beginning and ending all at once, and made me cry cry cry even though I didn't understand half of what she was saying.

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