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Diamano Coura West African Dance Company present "Mwangaza - Illumination"The 15th Annual Collage des Cultures Africaines Festival
Thursday through Sunday, March 11-14, 4-DAY CONFERENCE
Saturday, March 13, GALA PERFORMANCE Doors open @ 6 pm for the African Marketplace with crafts and food Dance performance @ 8pm
Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts 1428 Alice Street, Oakland, CA, 94612
Diamano Coura West African Dance Company hosts its 15th annual “Collage des Cultures Africaines” Festival, one night of mesmerizing performances with 20 international guest dance and drum artists from Sengal, Congo, Liberia, Zimbabwe, America, Haiti, Guinea, with six nationally and locally acclaimed dance companies, 20 dance and drum workshops with international artists. The 4-day conference includes a gala performance with international guest dance and drum artists, acclaimed dance companies, 20 dance and drum workshops with international artists, and other community activities at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. Tickets: $30 reserved, $20 advanced general seating, $25 at the door Discounts available for groups of 10 or more. For group rates call 510.290.5011 Tickets at www.BrownPaperTickets.com, or Marcus Bookstore, 3900 Martin Luther King
Jr. Way, Oakland, and Africa by the Bay, 3840 MacArthur Blvd in Oakland. For more info call 510.326.1968 or email diamanoc@aol.com or visit www.DiamanoCoura.org
Pezhham Akhavass & Miriam Peretz present: Peace & Love for the Universe, An Evening of Mystical World Music & Dance
Friday, March 12 @ 8pm
Mayer Theater
Santa ClaraUniversity
An Evening of Mystical World Music and Dance will feature performers: Faraz Minooei, Behfar Bahadoran, Jesse Sheehan, Pezhham Akhavass, Farima Berenji, Hannah Romanowski, Leila Sadeghi and Miriam Peretz. The Mayer Theater is located at 500 El Camino Real and tickets are $40 each.
To purchase advance tickets visit: www.brownpapertickets.com To reserve tickets call 408-364-6013 Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti presents: From Rubble to Resurrection Tuesday, March 16 @ 7:30pm Bankhead Theater 2400 1st Street, Livermore, CA 94550 The Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti, an artistic expression of the boys of St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in Port au Prince, is the culmination of overcoming incredible odds and finding the courage and strength to become what God has gifted them to be. Ambassadors for the country of Haiti, the Resurrection Dance Theatre of Haiti blends its unique style of Haitian dance with earlier influences of Afro-Caribbean movement and gesture. The result is an amalgamation of style and essence that defies category. Their performance ranges from dance that can only be called “introspective” to “elemental” to “rooted in the underside of Haitian history as seen from the slave’s perspective.”
Cafe Flamenco Saturday, March 20 @ 8 pm and 9:30 pm The Verdi Club 2424 Mariposa Street
at 18th & Potrero, San Francisco,
CA94110
Experience Cafe Flamenco at the Verdi Club in San Francisco with a full bar lounge, Mediterranean tapas by Mimi Martinez Catering, and great flamenco! Tickets $18 advance and $22 door Tickets online http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/ 94627
or (800) 838-3006 More info http://www.caminosflamencos.com or http://www.verdiclub.net Reservations (510) 531-9986. Bar, tapas, and tickets at the door are cash only More info call (510) 531-9986
Chitresh Das Dance Company & Chaandam School present: 30th Anniversary Performance and Gala Saturday, March 20 @ 6 pm Palace of Fine Arts Theater San Francisco The Chandam School of Kathak and the Chitresh Das Dance Company will kick-off its 30th Anniversary season with a performance and gala! The evening will feature a performance of Pandit Chitresh Das & tap sensation, Jason Samuels Smith in their award-winning, international sensation India Jazz Suites. The performance will be followed by an elegant sit-down dinner and celebration. For more info visit: www.kathak.org To reserve tickets call 415-333-9000 Spring Dance Inspiration 2010: Benefit the UCSF Brain Tumor Center presented by TK Fundraising Productions Saturday, March 20 @8pm Sunday, March 21 @3pm Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, SF
Our fourth annual brain tumor benefit event is back! Two days of
passionate dance performed by internationally renowned artists as well
as San Francisco Bay Area performers who will be contributing their time
and talents to help raise awareness of brain tumors and funds for the
Pediatric Brain Tumor Research and Patient Care Services at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center. The event has helped raise over $110,000 to the Brain Tumor Community.
Advanced Tickets: $22-$42/ Call for tickets (415) 345-7575 Buy online at www.fortmason.org For more info visit: www.tkfproductions.org Destiny Arts Center presents: ASYLUM Fri, March 19 @ 7:30pm Sat, March 20 @ 7:30pm Sun, March 21 @ 2pm Fri, March 26 @ 7:30pm Sat, March 27 @ 2 and 7:30pm
Laney College Theater 900 Fallon St., Oakland
The Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC) is a
multicultural group of teens that create original performance art
pieces, in collaboration with professional artists, that combine hip-hop,
modern, and aerial dance, theater, martial arts, song and rap. The
productions are a dynamic, creative forum for the young people to
express their fears, hopes and strategies for confronting challenging
personal and social issues. The company has performed locally and
nationally since 1993 for over 20,000 audience members annually.
Tickets: Adults $13-$25/ Youth(18 and under) $6/ Group rates available For more info visit: www.destinyarts.org or call 510-597-1619 Mahealani Uchiyama and Halau KaUaTuahine in concert Sunday, March 28 @8pm Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley
Join us for an evening of World Music and Dance featuring Mahealani and
KaUaTuahine Polynesian Dance Company.
Admission only $10! Tickets available at www.ashkenaz.com Abhinaya Dance Company presents: Dancing Divinites Sunday, April 4 CET Sobrato Center 701 Vine Street, San Jose
Abhinaya will begin the season with a spring concert and student recital
entitled“Dancing Divinities -
The eternal dance of thegods.” The performances will be
presented with a live orchestra in front of honored guest Guru Indira Rajan from
Chennai, India. The orchestra is
comprised of Malavika Kumar -
nattuvangam, Asha Ramesh - vocals and carnatic music composition, N.
Narayan -
Mridangam and Kanjira, Shanthi Narayan - violin, and Ragavan Manian –
flute.
The concert will feature:
* More than 50 Abhinaya Students presenting Dances of
Krishna at 3pm
* Stories of Apsaras in the heavenly court of Indra at
5pm
* Rasika Kumar, Principal Dancer, describing Nataraja,
the dancer par excellence
* Mythili Kumar (Artistic Director) presenting the dance
of Bhu-devi – the earth-goddess
Free for "Friends of Abhinaya" members. Donor: $25; General:$15; Students/Seniors: $10; Family of four:
$45 (2 Gen & 2 Stu/Sr.)
Chinyakare Ensemble in concert Saturday, April 17 @8pm Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance 729 Heinz Avenue, Berkeley
Julia Tsitsi Chigamba, Artistic Director of the Chinyakare
Ensemble and master dancer, singer and instrumentalist from
Zimbabwe, grew up in the rich cultural traditions of Shona music and
dance. Daughter of the highly respected gwenyambira Tute Chigamba, she
is a longtime member of Mhembero, the internationally known Chigamba
family dance and mbira ensemble. Since 1999, Julia has performed and
taught widely in the US while making Oakland, California her home away
from home.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, Julia connected with local
professional musicians versed in Shona traditional music and dance and
with them, formed the Chinyakare Ensemble. Some of the
ensemble members were longtime students of Shona music and friends of
her family in Zimbabwe, while others were professional musicians of
other African traditions who came to Zimbabwean music and dance more
recently.
Tickets: $15 Gamelan Sekar Jaya
(GSJ) performs at School of the Arts in San Francisco Saturday, April
24, 7pm School of the Arts 555 Portola Drive,San Francisco, CA94131
The
shimmering bronze Angklung group will accompany esteemed guest dancer Ni Ketut
Arini, one of Bali’s
most well-known performers and an expert on classical Balinese female-style
dance; She is widely regarded as a living national treasure of Indonesia. Tickets
$10-$20. This event is a co-benefit for Sekar Jaya's Jegog Tour to Bali & Academy of World Music.
JUEVES
FLAMENCOS! Every Thursday
night @ 8:30 pm &
9:30 pm
Peña Pamamama
1630 Powell Street, San Francisco 94111
Tickets $12
Join
Theatre Flamenco Company and guest artists for an evening of Traditional
Flamenco
Tablao style performance. Voted
best flamenco show by SF
Weekly!
