by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Performing Arts
San Francisco Jail (Cultural Odyssey, fiscal sponsor) collaborating with actress, singer, teacher, and writer Rhodessa Jones, incarcerated women, ex-offenders, and other artists from San Francisco’s multicultural community to create Concrete Jungle, “a...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Performing Arts
The San Francisco International Arts Festival collaborating with Bay Area writer and performance artist Paul S. Flores, Cuban rap artist Julio Cardenas, and theater director Danny Hoch, to create Representa!, an original bilingual work that dramatizes the lives of two...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Performing Arts
Rova Saxophone Quartet collaborating with Bay Area-based Butoh dancer Shinichi Momo Iova-Koga on the creation and presentation of a multidisciplinary performance work, “Glass Head,” that brings together master improvisers in dance and music. The performers...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Performing Arts
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra collaborating with composer Jake Heggie to create a music drama based on classic legends from Metamorphosis. The finished 20-minute music drama features a period instrument orchestra with soprano and mezzo soloists and is the first new...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Performing Arts
Kronos Quartet collaborating with sound artist, composer, and instrument creator Walter Kitundu on a composition/installation for the instruments of the string quartet and one or more “phonoharps”-beautifully crafted multi-stringed phonograph turntables...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 14, 2005 | 2005, Traditional Arts
Collaborating with the African American Art and Culture Complex, Nigerian sculptor Geoffrey Nwogu is creating a bas relief installation that captures the form and colors of a typical Mbari house, a project based in the Igbo cultural tradition and philosophy of...
