by Frances Phillips | Mar 20, 2015
Composer and musician Van-Anh Vo is collaborating with Asian Americans for Community Involvement to create The Odyssey—from Vietnam to America, a multi-disciplinary production about the spiritual odyssey of the Vietnamese Boat People and the emotional anguish and...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 27, 2015
Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch is collaborating with Kitka, a vocal arts ensemble that is dedicated to music rooted in Eastern European women’s vocal traditions, to create Iron Shoes, a contemporary neo-feminist folk opera combining singing, movement, text, humor,...
by Frances Phillips | Feb 13, 2015
Premiered: March 25, 2006, Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall Inc., New York; April 21-22, 2006, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Through collaboration with Kronos Quartet, sound artist, composer, and instrument creator Walter Kitundu developed a...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 23, 2015
Composer Chen Yi collaborated with Chanticleer, the Women’s Philharmonic, the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company, Chinese Cultural Productions, and the Dunhuang Ensemble to create and perform a cantata based on three Chinese creation myths. It was performed at a full...
by Frances Phillips | Jan 4, 2015
For its 35th anniversary in 2010, La Peña Cultural Center collaborated with composer Wayne Wallace, librettist Aya de Leon, and other artists to create a two-hour multimedia performance suite. Blending traditional folkloric music from Latin America with jazz, Middle...
