by Frances Phillips | Aug 6, 2009 | 2009, Traditional Arts
Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco collaborating with dancer and choreographer Joti Singh to combine Bhangra and Mexican Folklorico dance in Half and Halves, exploring the cultural histories of the Punjabi-Mexican communities of the Imperial, San Joaquin,...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 6, 2009 | 2009, Traditional Arts
Friends of the Japanese Garden (Friends of Oakland Parks and Recreation, fiscal sponsor) collaborating with Jay van Arsdale to design, build, and install 250 lineal feet of fencing, executed in the traditional Japanese method and style, that will enclose and announce...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 6, 2009 | 2009, Traditional Arts
Gadung Kasturi Balinese Dance and Music collaborating with dancer and choreographer Wan-Chao Chang to create, ?Keep Her Safe, Please,? a new 30-minute dance performance that draws upon classical and contemporary dance?primarily in Chinese and Indonesian traditions?and...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 6, 2009 | 2009, Traditional Arts
Kitka, Inc collaborating with Maria Poletaeva and the Russian folk arts collective Russia House Kedry, and with Tatiana Teodorovich to create Zhatva, an inter-generational outdoor musical ritual transforming ancient rural Russian customs associated with the autumn...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 6, 2009 | 2009, Traditional Arts
Voice of Roma collaborating with Sali Rumen Shopov and with Peter Jacques, Director of Brass Menazeri; and the Bay Area?s Brass Liberation Orchestra to create and perform a repertoire of processional street music based on Balkan Romani traditions.
by Frances Phillips | Aug 6, 2009 | 2009, Traditional Arts
Big Sur Land Trust collaborating with Linda Yamane to create a rare Ohlone presentation basket. The artist, a descendant of the Rumsian Ohlone, the native people of the Monterey/Big Sur area, estimates that a basket of this type has not been made in 300 years.
