The drum speaks in accents with buzzes, hisses, ruminations, proclamations. Duniya Dance & Drum Company, co-founded by Joti Singh and Bongo Sidibe, tends toward the more ecstatic of these expressions — the rapid, heel-thumping rhythms of North India's Punjab region and the bright pulse of West African Guinean drumming. The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival is hosting a free lunchtime performance where the two traditions gather for a conversation in cadence and choreography. Take a moment to leave your desk, forget the drought, soak in the endlessly strange sun, and watch regions that sit 6,000 miles apart move together in the Esplanade, making sequences and sense for a brief hour on a Thursday afternoon.
Duniya Dance & Drum Company performs at 12:30 p.m. at the Yerba Buena Gardens Esplanade, 773 Mission St., S.F. Free; ybgfestival.org.
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