The troupe of folkloric dancers that trains with Rebeca Llamas at Mazatlan’s Municipal Center for the Arts is going on tour to Italy this summer. The company of 26 dancers and student musicians from the MCA will present the music and dance of Sinaloa to audiences in Sicily, Rome, Milan and Florence. That’s probably why Llamas has choreographed a third show for the company’s repertoire, which already includes dance versions of the history of Mazatlan and the conquest of Sinaloa. The newest show, to be premiered here this month, fills in some of the gaps between the conquest and the recent history of the city. It begins with dance interpretations of how the Mayo Indians who were indigenous to this area, shortly after their conversion to Christianity, celebrated Semana Santa (Holy Week). The second half of the show presents the colorfully costumed figures called Mestizos (half Indian, half Spanish) who developed their own style of regional folk dance over the ensuing years — a tradition that continues to this day. In fact, the entire month of April will see multitudes of dancing feet on the stage of Mazatlan’s historic Angela Peralta Theater, for this is the month of the Jose Limon Contemporary Dance Festival taking place over 10 successive nights. Limon, who achieved world fame as a contemporary dancer, was a native of Culiacan. The festival that bears his name will be staged this month for the 11th year in a row at the theater. If you’re a Beatlema-niac, you might also want to circle May 2 on your calendar, for “Liverpool Ensemble,” a professional rock group from Mexico City, will be performing a concert of timeless Beatles tunes in a location that has yet to be determined. Are they famous in Mexico? Says Ricardo Urquijo, municipal cultural director, “Certainly! We sing their lyrics by heart even through we don’t understand the words....” Here, by date, is the complete list of upcoming cultural events for the theater and the arts center next door scheduled for April. All performances begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Ticket prices were yet to be announced at press time; check at the box office to the right of the theater entrance.