{"id":23862,"date":"2023-09-16T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=23862"},"modified":"2023-09-16T13:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T17:53:31","slug":"agua-sol-y-sereno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2023\/09\/16\/agua-sol-y-sereno\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico\u2019s Agua, Sol y Sereno Performs With Boston\u2019s Hyde Square Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The theater troupe Agua, Sol y Sereno<\/a> from Puerto Rico performed and paraded with youth from Boston\u2019s Hyde Square Task Force at Mozart Park in Boston last evening after leading a week-long workshop with the teens. The performance was part of Boston’s Latin Quarter\u2019s celebration of Latinx Heritage Month. Agua, Sol y Sereno is scheduled to perform at Boston\u2019s City Hall Plaza on Sunday, Sept. 17, at noon<\/a>, as Latinx Heritage Month continues in Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agua, Sol y Sereno was founded by the couple Pedro Adorno and Cathy Vigo in 1993. The company is best known for its cabezudos, big head masks, with aesthetic roots tracing back to European carnival. They have turned their masks into icons of the annual San Sebasti\u00e1n Street Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The masks honor Puerto Rico\u2019s historical figures as well as anonymous town denizens and community leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny saluted his homeland during his performance at the Grammy Awards in February 2023 by inviting Agua, Sol y Sereno to dance with him costumed in their cabezudos representing baseball legend Roberto Clemente, rapper and reggaeton icon Tego Calder\u00f3n, poet and civil rights activist Julia de Burgos and other Puerto Rican greats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Agua, Sol y Sereno performs with youth from Hyde Square Task Force at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Agua, Sol y Sereno\u2019s aesthetic aims to weave Afro-Caribbean popular culture, experimentation and avant-garde. \u201cOur narrative is inclusive, decolonial and always in tune with the most vulnerable communities, with which we actively collaborate,\u201d they write on their website (roughly translated here from their original Spanish).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re an activist theater of resistance and social critique from \u201cthe oldest colony in the world.\u201d They write (roughly translated here) on their website, \u201cWe are the echo of all those voices that they have wanted to silence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adorno and other members of Agua, Sol y Sereno spent this past week working with the Hyde Square teens making papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 hats depicting turtles, sharks, octopuses, seals and other ocean creatures. They also collaborated with the youth over three days to sculpt one of their signature papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 cabezudos\u2014in this case depicting a local Latino notable (Adorno swore me to secrecy about who the person depicted is until Sunday\u2019s performance).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Mozart Park last night, they performed their humorous play \u201cComer\u201d (Eat). Then they changed outfits and paraded back into the park on stilts with youth from the Hyde Square Task Force as well as the band Ra\u00edz de Plena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, occasional newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting. (All content \u00a9Greg Cook 2023 or the respective creators.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Agua, Sol y Sereno performs their humorous play \u201cComer” at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno performs with youth from Hyde Square Task Force at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Youth from Hyde Square Task Force finish making papier-mache hats in workshops by Agua, Sol y Sereno at the task force’s Boston building, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cabezudos, big head mask, made by Agua, Sol y Sereno with youth from Hyde Square Task Force at the task force’s Boston building, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Youth from Hyde Square Task Force finish making papier-mache hats in workshops by Agua, Sol y Sereno at the task force’s Boston building, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno cofounder Pedro Adrono leads youth from Hyde Square Task Force in a rehearsal at the task force’s Boston building, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Youth from Hyde Square Task Force rehearsing with Agua, Sol y Sereno at the task force’s Boston building, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno and youth from Hyde Square Task Force preparing to perform at the task force’s Boston building, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno cofounder Pedro Adrono leads youth from Hyde Square Task Force in a rehearsal at the task force’s Boston building, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno and youth from Hyde Square Task Force rehearsing at the task force’s Boston building, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno performs their humorous play \u201cComer” at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno cofounder Pedro Adrono preparing to perform with Hyde Square Task Force at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno strapping on stilts to perform with youth from Hyde Square Task Force at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno performs with youth from Hyde Square Task Force at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno performs with youth from Hyde Square Task Force at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agua, Sol y Sereno performs with youth from Hyde Square Task Force at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Ra\u00edz de Plena performs with Agua, Sol y Sereno and youth from Hyde Square Task Force at Boston’s Mozart Park, Sept. 15, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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