by Frances Phillips | Sep 1, 2014
Bhangra dancer and choreographer Joti Singh and Zenon Barron, artistic director of Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco (Ensambles), combined Bhangra and Mexican Folklorico dance to create, Half and Halves, a piece exploring the Punjabi-Mexican communities of...
by Frances Phillips | Aug 17, 2014
Lead artist Maria Poletaeva and the Russian folk art collective Kedry collaborated with Kitka and Tatiana Teodorovich to create an inter-generational outdoor musical ritual based in ancient rural Russian customs associated with the autumn Feast Day of Mokosha. For...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 3, 2014
Gautam Tejas Ganeshan is collaborating with Tree of Life (known as Subterranean Arthouse) in Berkeley to create new songs that tell the “Story of This Place/Sthala Puranam” in the tradition of South Indian Carnatic music. In the project’s first phase, he...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 10, 2014
Native California artist Edward Willie collaborated with the Museum of the American Indian to create men’s regalia—distinct, meticulously crafted, nature-based adornments for traditional dancers. Willie, who is of Pomo, Walkiki, and Wintu descent, specializes in the...
by Frances Phillips | Jun 5, 2014
In addition to working on paper, calligraphers have provided blueprints for works in mosaic, ceramics, and other media. Following this tradition, the Islamic Center of Manteca, calligrapher Zubair Simab and mosaic artist Pippa Murray created a calligraphed...
