SAN FRANCISCO ETHNIC DANCE FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 40 YEARS
PHOTOS BY RJ MUNA
Arenas Dance Company
OngDance Company
Parangal Dance Company
Nunamta Yup'ik Eskimo Singers and Dancers
Performers during the 40th San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival:
Hermanos Herrera - Mexican Folkloric Kim Shuck – Poet Laureate of San Francisco
be seen for the first time in over 200 years, in regalia that has taken nearly four decades to create. Additionally, the Festival has announced a trio of new Co-Artistic Directors: Pat- rick Makuakāne, Latanya d. Tigner, and Māhealani Uchiyama, as Carlos Carvajal and CK Ladzekpo become Artistic Direc- tors Emeritus after 12 seasons as Co-Artistic Directors. Makuakāne is founder, Artistic Director, and Kumu Hula of San Francisco’s renowned Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu Hawai- ian dance company; Tigner is a dancer and choreographer at Oakland’s venerated Di- mensions Dance Theater, directs Dimensions’ youth company, and serves on the dance faculty of UC Berkeley; Uchiyama is founder and Artistic Director of the Center for International Dance in Berkeley, Kumu Hula of Hālau Ka Ua Tuahine, and is an award- winning choreographer and composer.
THIS JULY, the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival will return to the War Memorial Opera House for its 40th anniversary as the largest, longest-running, and most compre- hensive world dance and music event of its kind in the US. “[The Opera House] is a magnificent set- ting to celebrate the awe-inspiring Bay Area artists who are sustaining the world’s cultural traditions, shining as a powerful beacon for the power and beauty of diverse cultural in- clusion,” said Festival Executive Director Julie Mushet. “It’s deeply gratifying to celebrate four decades of presenting these inspiring art- ists to ever-growing audiences, from the Festi- val’s modest beginnings in community centers to the grandest stage in San Francisco.” One of the highlights of this year’s Festival is the performance by Chuna McIntyre and the Nunamta Yup’ik Eskimo Singers and Dancers, who will present a dance that will
Leung’s White Crane Lion & Dragon Dance Association – Chinese Dragon Dance Los Danzantes de Aztlán, Fresno State – Mexi- can Folkloric (Huapangos) Mussel Rock Cloggers – Appalachian Clogging Nimely Pan African Dance Company – Liberian Folkloric Nunamta Yup’ik Eskimo Singers and Dancers – Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo OngDance Company – Korean Traditional and Contemporary Parangal Dance Company – Philippine Folkloric (Meranao) Te Pura O Te Rahura’a – T ahitian ʽŌte’a and ʽAparima Vinic-Kay (La Gente y El Canto) – Mexican Folkloric Ye Feng – Chinese Contemporary The Festival’s Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in ethnic dance and music will be presented to four artists who have had an extraordinary impact on the field: • Lily Cai , Founder and Artistic Director of Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company • Patty-Ann Farrell, the Festival’s Lighting Designer and Auditions Stage Manager, who has been a part of the Festival team since it launched in 1978 • Chuna McIntyre, Founder and Artistic Director of Nunamta Yup’ik Eskimo Singers and Dancers • Jamila Salimpour (In Memoriam), Founder of Bal Anat, and a major influence on belly dance in the United States for more than 50 years.
AERODANCE – Indian Folkloric (Gujarat) AguaClara Flamenco – Spanish Flamenco Ananya Tirumala – South Indian Kuchipudi Antara Asthaayi Dance – North Indian Kathak Arenas Dance Company – Afro-Cuban Bolivia Corazón de América – Bolivian Folkloric (Tarabuco and Potosí) Caminos Flamencos – Spanish Flamenco Charya Burt Cambodian Dance – Cambodian Classical Chinyakare Ensemble – Z imbabwean Tradi- tional Chitresh Das Youth Company – North Indian Kathak De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association – Afro-Peruvi an Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisc o – Mexican Folkloric (Tabasqueño)
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