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“Percussion ensemble” hardly begins to describe Cyro Baptista’s Beat the Donkey. Sword-dancing, martial arts, and acrobatics thrill audiences as part of the ensemble’s performances—but nothing eclipses the exuberance of the music itself. Beat the Donkey draws from jazz, samba, funk, and rock, along with Afro-Brazilian and a host of other international influences, to create music as compositionally complex as it is wild and joyous.