by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Composer and musician Paul Dresher collaborating with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, led by music director Joana Carneiro, on a new 18- to 24-minute work, “Concerto for Two Invented Instruments and Orchestra,” featuring two of Dresher’s unique...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Philip Kan Gotanda collaborating with faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, to develop a new play, I Dream of Chang and Eng, based on the lives of the original Siamese twins. Gotanda’s piece animates the lives of these pioneer figures while engaging...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Balinese artist I Made Moja collaborating with Gamelan Sekar Jaya to create The Creatures of Balinese Mythology exploring, in particular, monkeys and frogs, which appear repeatedly in many guises and contexts throughout the mythology, folklore, and iconography of...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith and her company, Deep Waters Dance Theater, collaborating with director Ellen Sebastian Chang, visual artist Lauren Elder, and CounterPULSE to create Our Daily Bread, an interactive dance/video/text/meal collage that celebrates food,...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 7, 2010 | 2010, Performing Arts
Composer Daniel Valdez collaborating with El Teatro Campesino to create, workshop, and premiere Canción De San Juan: Oratorio of a Small Town, a theatrical fusion oratorio. Based on ethnographic research and developed over the course of two years, this musical...
