by Frances Phillips | May 2, 2014
Tibetan secular history was preserved and passed on from generation to generation through ritualized dances, which often were accompanied by narration or song. Tsering Wangmo and Vajrayana Foundation collaborated to stage and record the most famous and characteristic...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 18, 2014
Through interviews, storyteller Nancy Wang researched stories of Asian American female activists and, with her long-time partner Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo, and with Francis Wong of Asian Improv aRts, shaped them into the performance, “In Need of Goddesses,”...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 11, 2014
Jesus Diaz and La Peña Cultural Center collaborated with Cuban master musicians and dancers to create a new work exploring and celebrating the evolution of Cuban music. The project combined folkloric arrangements with contemporary compositions, demonstrating ways that...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 21, 2014
Composer/performer Stuart Brotman, collaborated with colleagues Marlene (“Cookie”) Segelstein and Joshua Horowitz, and with Temple Israel of Alameda, to create a purely instrumental concert suite in klezmer style for chamber trio. The piece, in four...
by Frances Phillips | Mar 14, 2014
California native basketweaver Linda Yamane will create two Ohlone twined work baskets—a pechump tiprin that sits on a stone mortar for acorn preparation, and xaapsh, a utilitarian twined container. Each basket connects very specifically to her Rumsien Ohlone heritage...
