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In our second season of Living Traditions
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With Living Traditions: Exploring Dance Beyond the Performance, we will take you on a journey exploring different dance disciplines through a series of live online interviews. Our conversations with artists will focus on their art form, its history, and what makes it unique. Each episode will focus on one company practicing a specific tradition. We will discuss how they find a balance between holding tradition and embracing innovation. Interviews will be conducted by the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival’s Artistic Directors, Latanya d. Tigner and Māhealani Uchiyama. |
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Parangal Dance Company
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Founded in 2008, Parangal Dance Company is a Filipino Folk Dance Group based in the San Francisco Bay Area that aspires to inspire. Parangal’s mission is to pay tribute to Philippine heritage by preserving and promoting ethnic attire, music, and dance through research, workshops, and performances. Parangal aims to serve as a bridge, inspiring and connecting Filipino Americans to their roots to give them a sense of pride and identity; and fostering awareness and appreciation of Philippine culture among diverse communities. |
Episode aired on October 3, 2020
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Viver Brasil Dance Company
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Episode aired on October 10, 2020
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Viver Brasil was founded in 1997 by Linda Yudin and Luiz Badaró and in 2019, appointed Vera Passos as Associate Artistic director. They honor Brazil's African legacy through bold contemporary dance theatre that is inspired by the timely stories of the mythical orixa; the liberating joy of samba de roda, and a call for justice in the dances and rhythms of the bloco afro.
Viver Brasil is dedicated to rigorous research of Afro-Brazilian culture, as well as continuous dialogue and collaboration between its wise elders, living masters, choreographers, and virtuoso musicians in Bahia and the US. The creative voices of the company fuel and empower Viver Brasil’s dynamic and powerful artistry as it addresses anti-blackness, building joyful community and honoring ancestral memory and wisdom. |
Shabnam Shirvani
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Shabnam Shirvani is a critically acclaimed Persian-American dance artist renowned for her progressive, artistic, and athletic approach to belly dance. She has received numerous awards for her work and has been selected to perform on the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival stage eight times. She directs Shabnam Dance Company, an Oakland-based professional ensemble dedicated to the elevation of belly dance that integrates live musicianship with dance. Shabnam is committed to the progression and artistic enhancement of belly dance while honoring its roots. |
Episode aired on October 17, 2020
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CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance Theater
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Episode aired on October 24, 2020
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CONTRA-TIEMPO is a bold, multilingual Los Angeles-based dance company that creates a new physical, visual, and sonic vocabulary combining salsa, Afro-Cuban, hip-hop, and contemporary dance with theater, compelling text, and original music to bring dynamic multi-modal experiences to the concert stage. Their aim is to move audiences to imagine what is possible.
In creating their work, CONTRA-TIEMPO engages diverse audiences, cultivates dancer leaders, and centers stories not traditionally heard on the concert stage, using this engagement process to inform and continuously re-fuel their creative process, and vice-versa. |