by Frances Phillips | Sep 29, 2011 | 2011, Traditional Arts
World Arts West collaborating with Cambodian dancer Charya Burt to create a new work exploring the 1906 encounter between Auguste Rodin and the Royal Cambodian Ballet. Burt is responding to the more than 150 drawings and sketches made by the French artist, when he...
by Frances Phillips | Sep 29, 2011 | 2011, Traditional Arts
Youth in Arts collaborating with musician Ernesto Hernandez Olmos, along with Mayra Hernandez Martinez and Miguel Martinez, to create and present a new performance for children and families that presents traditional indigenous Meso-American music and dance practices...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 6, 2009 | 2009, Traditional Arts
Afsaneh Arts and Culture Society with Sharlyn Sawyer, artistic director of Ballet Afsaneh, collaborating with kathak dancer Antonia Minnecola, and other artists to create a new performance work that draws upon the confluence of traditional cultures along the ancient...
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.
by Frances Phillips | Aug 6, 2009 | 2009, Traditional Arts
Door Dog Music Productions collaborating with Tashi Dhondup Sharzur (Techung) and other Central Asian artists to create a work for The Ritual Project, exploring music of ancient rites and rituals, including Manas, the world?s longest epic poem based on the legends of...
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,...
