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 | Jun 6, 2007 | 2007, Traditional Arts
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center collaborating with Cambodian classical dancer and choreographer Charya Burt, Vishnu Tattva Das Odissi Vilas of Sacred Dance of India, and Melody Takata of Gen Taiko to create Of Spirits Intertwined, exploring the rituals that...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 6, 2007 | 2007, Traditional Arts
Asian Improv aRts collaborating with Melody Takata, Madame Fuima Kansuma, Hideko Nakajima, Tatsu Aoki, and members of Gen Taiko to create a performance on the theme of Shimenawa. Shimenawa is created by binding together multiple threads for strength and refers to the...
