The 2016 Festival returns to the historic
Palace of Fine Arts Theater for three weekends of performances following a free public opening celebration and performances in San Francisco City Hall’s rotunda on Friday, June 3, featuring Peruvian dance company El Tunante.
Three different programs will be presented at the Palace of Fine Arts June 4 & 5, June 11 & 12, and June 18 & 19, featuring dance traditions and innovations from Bolivia, Cambodia, China, the Congo, Egypt, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Okinawa, the Philippines, Scotland, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Tajikistan, and the US.
Special features of the 2016 Festival will include a screening of Ashley James’ award-winning film And Still We Dance, a 1986 documentary about the Festival, inspired by the Festival artists and a poem by Janice Mirikitani.
Mirikitani, a renowned poet, dancer, and activist, will be honored during the Festival’s opening weekend with a special performance of her poem. Bernardo Pedere, Filipino dance master who directed the Filipiniana Dance Troupe, and Valerie Watson, Founder and Artistic Director of Alafia Dance Ensemble, will be honored with the Festival’s Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Awards for excellence in the field of ethnic dance and music.
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Palace of Fine Arts Theater for three weekends of performances following a free public opening celebration and performances in San Francisco City Hall’s rotunda on Friday, June 3, featuring Peruvian dance company El Tunante.
Three different programs will be presented at the Palace of Fine Arts June 4 & 5, June 11 & 12, and June 18 & 19, featuring dance traditions and innovations from Bolivia, Cambodia, China, the Congo, Egypt, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Okinawa, the Philippines, Scotland, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Tajikistan, and the US.
Special features of the 2016 Festival will include a screening of Ashley James’ award-winning film And Still We Dance, a 1986 documentary about the Festival, inspired by the Festival artists and a poem by Janice Mirikitani.
Mirikitani, a renowned poet, dancer, and activist, will be honored during the Festival’s opening weekend with a special performance of her poem. Bernardo Pedere, Filipino dance master who directed the Filipiniana Dance Troupe, and Valerie Watson, Founder and Artistic Director of Alafia Dance Ensemble, will be honored with the Festival’s Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Awards for excellence in the field of ethnic dance and music.
The 2016 Festival returns to the historic
Palace of Fine Arts Theater for three weekends of performances following a free public opening celebration and performances in San Francisco City Hall’s rotunda on Friday, June 3, featuring Peruvian dance company El Tunante.
Three different programs will be presented at the Palace of Fine Arts June 4 & 5, June 11 & 12, and June 18 & 19, featuring dance traditions and innovations from Bolivia, Cambodia, China, the Congo, Egypt, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Okinawa, the Philippines, Scotland, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Tajikistan, and the US.
Special features of the 2016 Festival will include a screening of Ashley James’ award-winning film And Still We Dance, a 1986 documentary about the Festival, inspired by the Festival artists and a poem by Janice Mirikitani.
Mirikitani, a renowned poet, dancer, and activist, will be honored during the Festival’s opening weekend with a special performance of her poem. Bernardo Pedere, Filipino dance master who directed the Filipiniana Dance Troupe, and Valerie Watson, Founder and Artistic Director of Alafia Dance Ensemble, will be honored with the Festival’s Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Awards for excellence in the field of ethnic dance and music.
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Palace of Fine Arts Theater for three weekends of performances following a free public opening celebration and performances in San Francisco City Hall’s rotunda on Friday, June 3, featuring Peruvian dance company El Tunante.
Three different programs will be presented at the Palace of Fine Arts June 4 & 5, June 11 & 12, and June 18 & 19, featuring dance traditions and innovations from Bolivia, Cambodia, China, the Congo, Egypt, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lebanon, Mexico, Nicaragua, Okinawa, the Philippines, Scotland, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Tajikistan, and the US.
Special features of the 2016 Festival will include a screening of Ashley James’ award-winning film And Still We Dance, a 1986 documentary about the Festival, inspired by the Festival artists and a poem by Janice Mirikitani.
Mirikitani, a renowned poet, dancer, and activist, will be honored during the Festival’s opening weekend with a special performance of her poem. Bernardo Pedere, Filipino dance master who directed the Filipiniana Dance Troupe, and Valerie Watson, Founder and Artistic Director of Alafia Dance Ensemble, will be honored with the Festival’s Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Awards for excellence in the field of ethnic dance and music.
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