by Frances Phillips | Jun 3, 2013
Bass player and jazz composer Marcus Shelby, his ensemble, the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, and Yerba Buena Arts and Events collaborated to develop and premiere Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, an original secular oratorio for jazz orchestra. Prior to...
by Frances Phillips | May 31, 2013
This multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural project, Glass Head, brought together master improvisers from the arts of dance, music, and media—Shinichi Momo Koga of the Bay Area-based Butoh dance company inkBoat, Berlin-based Butoh dancer Yuko Kaseki; Jon Raskin, Larry...
by Frances Phillips | May 24, 2013
Composer and percussionist John Santos and choreographer Robert Moses collaborated with the Oakland Ballet to create a new work, Unión Fraternal, based on the Danzón tradition from Cuba. The 22-minute piece was set on 12 dancers, and Santos’s music was scored...
by Frances Phillips | May 23, 2013
Rhodessa Jones worked in partnership with the San Francisco Health Department, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, Cultural Odyssey, and female inmates and ex-inmates to create and produce Buried Fire, an original, interdisciplinary, theatrical work based on a...
by Frances Phillips | May 14, 2013
Two distinguished artists who had long been colleagues on the University of California at Berkeley campus–composer Olly Wilson and painter Mary Lovelace O’Neal–collaborated with one another and with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players to...
