Madame Zingara is returning to Cape Town after a sell-out year on the road and it opens in the Mother City tonight.
New to the Zingara family are Ernesto and Ezequiel, two striking Argentinian Gauchos performing the Boleadora for the first time in South Africa.
These two cousins have been travelling and performing their act around the world for the past 18 to five years respectively.
Their most memorable audiences were the passionate folklore fans across Northern America and Europe.
Ernesto Andre Diaz from Buenos Aires, was born on the August, 6, 1974 and Ezequiel Carlos Sosa, also from Buenos Aires, was born on the April 7, 1982.
Gauchos are heroic figures from Argentina and Uruguay and an important part of folklore.
The gauchos were skilled cowboys who lived and reveled without any restraints of a city. They lived like nomads within the mountain terrain and hunted with a simple knife and a boleadora (stones bound together with leather strips).
They hunted with the boleadora by throwing it, allowing the leather strip and stones to wrap around the legs multiple times, immediately stopping the hunted in its tracks.
The bolas evolved into a percussion instrument during folk dances to tell the hunting tale of their Argentinian ancestor. The Boleadora dance is a spectacular act to witness demonstrating the use of drums as a representation of ancient communication. The beating of the drums travelled afar to signal a kill to their tribe members.
The show opens tonight and runs nightly from Tuesday to Saturday.
Tickets range from R 385 to R495.
For more information call 0861 623 263 or email.
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