World Arts West announces the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, which each year presents a thrilling array of dance performances during three weekends in June. Twenty-nine performing groups representing dance traditions of 22 countries and 27 cultures from around the world were selected from the over 100 groups and soloists who auditioned to perform at the 2005 Festival.
Festival Executive Director Julie Mushet says of the 2005 Festival: “This Festival touches my heart with its depth and beauty. With hundreds of unique artists performing traditions that speak from their souls, it’s impossible not to be inspired and grateful to have seen it!”
The over-arching theme of the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is Origins, with each weekend featuring a distinct focus and a different roster of performers. The 2005 Festival’s opening weekend, with the theme Beginnings, includes two special events: an Opening Night Celebration and gala reception on Saturday, June 11, from 6pm to 8pm, the Festival’s major fundraising event of the year (tickets $100); and later that evening the Festival honors Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka of the San Francisco Taiko Dojo with the Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Award . The Festival continues on June 18–19 with programs on the theme of Journeys; and on June 25–26 with a focus on Transformations.
Over 400 artists will perform at the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, in three weekends of extraordinary dance and music. Each program features nine to ten companies and soloists, who perform for 5 -10 minutes each.
Schedule
June 11 & 12 — Beginnings
Bolivia Corazon de America; Charya Burt Classical Cambodian Dance Group; Dimensions Dance Theatre (African American); Ensembles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco (Mexican); Fook Sing Lion Dance Troupe (Chinese); Grupo Folclorico Alma Ribatejana (Portuguese); Halau ‘o Keikiali’i (Hawaiian); Hearan Chung (Korean); Nitya Venkateswaran (Indian); Otufelenite Tongan Group
June 18 & 19 — Journeys
Ballet Lisanga Congolese Performing Arts Company; El Tunante (Peruvian); Gamelan Sekar Jaya (Indonesian); Amanda Grady (Indian); Hiyas Philippine Folk Dance Company; Jubilee American Dance Theater; Miriam Peretz (Tajik); Murphy Irish Dance Company; Peony Performing Arts (Chinese); Raices Grupo Folklorico (Mexican)
June 25 & 26 — Transformations
Barbary Coast Cloggers (American); Chinese Performing Artists of America; Dunsmuir Scottish Dancers; Harsanari Indonesian Dance Company; Kalanjali: Dances of India; Ong Dance Company (Korean); Shuvani (Romani-India/Turkey/Russia/Spain); Te Mana O Te Ra (Tahitian); Yaelisa and Caminos Flamencos (Spanish)
Tickets
Tickets to the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival go on sale on May 2, 2005. Ticket prices are $22 - $36. A subscription package for all three weekends of performances is priced from $60 - $98. Group discounts for 20 or more are available by calling (415) 474-3914. Tickets are available by calling City Box Office at (415) 392-4400; online at https://www.cityboxoffice.com or https://www.tickets.com.
Unique in the United States, the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival has been hailed as one of the most significant annual dance festivals in America, and as a major factor in making the Bay Area one of the dance capitals of the U.S. The Festival has been instrumental in introducing large audiences to many of the world’s most distinctive cultural traditions, presenting real art by real people from the many diverse cultural communities in the Bay Area and Northern California. Festival participants come from varied socioeconomic backgrounds and represent a broad range of occupations and lifestyles. Many are second and third generation dancers and musicians, and after 27 years, the children of Festival pioneers are recreating and preserving important work as their contribution to contemporary culture. Since 1978, the Festival has presented more than 14,000 dancers from over 600 companies, providing outstanding opportunities to artists who seek to present the dance expressions of their cultural and ethnic heritages.
The 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is supported in part by Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the California Arts Council, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, KPMG, Target Corporation, and the San Francisco Foundation.
About World Arts West
World Arts West serves the ethnic, traditional, and folk dance communities of Northern California by presenting and advancing multicultural performing arts. Ongoing programs of World Arts West include: the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; People Like Me, an arts education program for grades K–6 modeled on the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; the Community Involvement Initiative, a program designed to raise awareness of the ethnic dance community and its needs; and special events such as workshops and symposia.
World Arts West has been presenting and promoting the dance and music traditions of the world since 1978, creating opportunities for individuals and communities to celebrate, share, and sustain the vitality of ethnic and traditional dance. World Arts West promotes awareness and appreciation of cultural heritage for strengthening ethnic identity and community.
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Festival Executive Director Julie Mushet says of the 2005 Festival: “This Festival touches my heart with its depth and beauty. With hundreds of unique artists performing traditions that speak from their souls, it’s impossible not to be inspired and grateful to have seen it!”
The over-arching theme of the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is Origins, with each weekend featuring a distinct focus and a different roster of performers. The 2005 Festival’s opening weekend, with the theme Beginnings, includes two special events: an Opening Night Celebration and gala reception on Saturday, June 11, from 6pm to 8pm, the Festival’s major fundraising event of the year (tickets $100); and later that evening the Festival honors Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka of the San Francisco Taiko Dojo with the Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Award . The Festival continues on June 18–19 with programs on the theme of Journeys; and on June 25–26 with a focus on Transformations.
Over 400 artists will perform at the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, in three weekends of extraordinary dance and music. Each program features nine to ten companies and soloists, who perform for 5 -10 minutes each.
Schedule
June 11 & 12 — Beginnings
Bolivia Corazon de America; Charya Burt Classical Cambodian Dance Group; Dimensions Dance Theatre (African American); Ensembles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco (Mexican); Fook Sing Lion Dance Troupe (Chinese); Grupo Folclorico Alma Ribatejana (Portuguese); Halau ‘o Keikiali’i (Hawaiian); Hearan Chung (Korean); Nitya Venkateswaran (Indian); Otufelenite Tongan Group
June 18 & 19 — Journeys
Ballet Lisanga Congolese Performing Arts Company; El Tunante (Peruvian); Gamelan Sekar Jaya (Indonesian); Amanda Grady (Indian); Hiyas Philippine Folk Dance Company; Jubilee American Dance Theater; Miriam Peretz (Tajik); Murphy Irish Dance Company; Peony Performing Arts (Chinese); Raices Grupo Folklorico (Mexican)
June 25 & 26 — Transformations
Barbary Coast Cloggers (American); Chinese Performing Artists of America; Dunsmuir Scottish Dancers; Harsanari Indonesian Dance Company; Kalanjali: Dances of India; Ong Dance Company (Korean); Shuvani (Romani-India/Turkey/Russia/Spain); Te Mana O Te Ra (Tahitian); Yaelisa and Caminos Flamencos (Spanish)
Tickets
Tickets to the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival go on sale on May 2, 2005. Ticket prices are $22 - $36. A subscription package for all three weekends of performances is priced from $60 - $98. Group discounts for 20 or more are available by calling (415) 474-3914. Tickets are available by calling City Box Office at (415) 392-4400; online at https://www.cityboxoffice.com or https://www.tickets.com.
Unique in the United States, the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival has been hailed as one of the most significant annual dance festivals in America, and as a major factor in making the Bay Area one of the dance capitals of the U.S. The Festival has been instrumental in introducing large audiences to many of the world’s most distinctive cultural traditions, presenting real art by real people from the many diverse cultural communities in the Bay Area and Northern California. Festival participants come from varied socioeconomic backgrounds and represent a broad range of occupations and lifestyles. Many are second and third generation dancers and musicians, and after 27 years, the children of Festival pioneers are recreating and preserving important work as their contribution to contemporary culture. Since 1978, the Festival has presented more than 14,000 dancers from over 600 companies, providing outstanding opportunities to artists who seek to present the dance expressions of their cultural and ethnic heritages.
The 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is supported in part by Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the California Arts Council, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, KPMG, Target Corporation, and the San Francisco Foundation.
About World Arts West
World Arts West serves the ethnic, traditional, and folk dance communities of Northern California by presenting and advancing multicultural performing arts. Ongoing programs of World Arts West include: the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; People Like Me, an arts education program for grades K–6 modeled on the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; the Community Involvement Initiative, a program designed to raise awareness of the ethnic dance community and its needs; and special events such as workshops and symposia.
World Arts West has been presenting and promoting the dance and music traditions of the world since 1978, creating opportunities for individuals and communities to celebrate, share, and sustain the vitality of ethnic and traditional dance. World Arts West promotes awareness and appreciation of cultural heritage for strengthening ethnic identity and community.
World Arts West announces the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, which each year presents a thrilling array of dance performances during three weekends in June. Twenty-nine performing groups representing dance traditions of 22 countries and 27 cultures from around the world were selected from the over 100 groups and soloists who auditioned to perform at the 2005 Festival.
Festival Executive Director Julie Mushet says of the 2005 Festival: “This Festival touches my heart with its depth and beauty. With hundreds of unique artists performing traditions that speak from their souls, it’s impossible not to be inspired and grateful to have seen it!”
The over-arching theme of the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is Origins, with each weekend featuring a distinct focus and a different roster of performers. The 2005 Festival’s opening weekend, with the theme Beginnings, includes two special events: an Opening Night Celebration and gala reception on Saturday, June 11, from 6pm to 8pm, the Festival’s major fundraising event of the year (tickets $100); and later that evening the Festival honors Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka of the San Francisco Taiko Dojo with the Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Award . The Festival continues on June 18–19 with programs on the theme of Journeys; and on June 25–26 with a focus on Transformations.
Over 400 artists will perform at the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, in three weekends of extraordinary dance and music. Each program features nine to ten companies and soloists, who perform for 5 -10 minutes each.
Schedule
June 11 & 12 — Beginnings
Bolivia Corazon de America; Charya Burt Classical Cambodian Dance Group; Dimensions Dance Theatre (African American); Ensembles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco (Mexican); Fook Sing Lion Dance Troupe (Chinese); Grupo Folclorico Alma Ribatejana (Portuguese); Halau ‘o Keikiali’i (Hawaiian); Hearan Chung (Korean); Nitya Venkateswaran (Indian); Otufelenite Tongan Group
June 18 & 19 — Journeys
Ballet Lisanga Congolese Performing Arts Company; El Tunante (Peruvian); Gamelan Sekar Jaya (Indonesian); Amanda Grady (Indian); Hiyas Philippine Folk Dance Company; Jubilee American Dance Theater; Miriam Peretz (Tajik); Murphy Irish Dance Company; Peony Performing Arts (Chinese); Raices Grupo Folklorico (Mexican)
June 25 & 26 — Transformations
Barbary Coast Cloggers (American); Chinese Performing Artists of America; Dunsmuir Scottish Dancers; Harsanari Indonesian Dance Company; Kalanjali: Dances of India; Ong Dance Company (Korean); Shuvani (Romani-India/Turkey/Russia/Spain); Te Mana O Te Ra (Tahitian); Yaelisa and Caminos Flamencos (Spanish)
Tickets
Tickets to the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival go on sale on May 2, 2005. Ticket prices are $22 - $36. A subscription package for all three weekends of performances is priced from $60 - $98. Group discounts for 20 or more are available by calling (415) 474-3914. Tickets are available by calling City Box Office at (415) 392-4400; online at https://www.cityboxoffice.com or https://www.tickets.com.
Unique in the United States, the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival has been hailed as one of the most significant annual dance festivals in America, and as a major factor in making the Bay Area one of the dance capitals of the U.S. The Festival has been instrumental in introducing large audiences to many of the world’s most distinctive cultural traditions, presenting real art by real people from the many diverse cultural communities in the Bay Area and Northern California. Festival participants come from varied socioeconomic backgrounds and represent a broad range of occupations and lifestyles. Many are second and third generation dancers and musicians, and after 27 years, the children of Festival pioneers are recreating and preserving important work as their contribution to contemporary culture. Since 1978, the Festival has presented more than 14,000 dancers from over 600 companies, providing outstanding opportunities to artists who seek to present the dance expressions of their cultural and ethnic heritages.
The 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is supported in part by Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the California Arts Council, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, KPMG, Target Corporation, and the San Francisco Foundation.
About World Arts West
World Arts West serves the ethnic, traditional, and folk dance communities of Northern California by presenting and advancing multicultural performing arts. Ongoing programs of World Arts West include: the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; People Like Me, an arts education program for grades K–6 modeled on the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; the Community Involvement Initiative, a program designed to raise awareness of the ethnic dance community and its needs; and special events such as workshops and symposia.
World Arts West has been presenting and promoting the dance and music traditions of the world since 1978, creating opportunities for individuals and communities to celebrate, share, and sustain the vitality of ethnic and traditional dance. World Arts West promotes awareness and appreciation of cultural heritage for strengthening ethnic identity and community.
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Festival Executive Director Julie Mushet says of the 2005 Festival: “This Festival touches my heart with its depth and beauty. With hundreds of unique artists performing traditions that speak from their souls, it’s impossible not to be inspired and grateful to have seen it!”
The over-arching theme of the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is Origins, with each weekend featuring a distinct focus and a different roster of performers. The 2005 Festival’s opening weekend, with the theme Beginnings, includes two special events: an Opening Night Celebration and gala reception on Saturday, June 11, from 6pm to 8pm, the Festival’s major fundraising event of the year (tickets $100); and later that evening the Festival honors Grand Master Seiichi Tanaka of the San Francisco Taiko Dojo with the Malonga Casquelourd Lifetime Achievement Award . The Festival continues on June 18–19 with programs on the theme of Journeys; and on June 25–26 with a focus on Transformations.
Over 400 artists will perform at the 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, in three weekends of extraordinary dance and music. Each program features nine to ten companies and soloists, who perform for 5 -10 minutes each.
Schedule
June 11 & 12 — Beginnings
Bolivia Corazon de America; Charya Burt Classical Cambodian Dance Group; Dimensions Dance Theatre (African American); Ensembles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco (Mexican); Fook Sing Lion Dance Troupe (Chinese); Grupo Folclorico Alma Ribatejana (Portuguese); Halau ‘o Keikiali’i (Hawaiian); Hearan Chung (Korean); Nitya Venkateswaran (Indian); Otufelenite Tongan Group
June 18 & 19 — Journeys
Ballet Lisanga Congolese Performing Arts Company; El Tunante (Peruvian); Gamelan Sekar Jaya (Indonesian); Amanda Grady (Indian); Hiyas Philippine Folk Dance Company; Jubilee American Dance Theater; Miriam Peretz (Tajik); Murphy Irish Dance Company; Peony Performing Arts (Chinese); Raices Grupo Folklorico (Mexican)
June 25 & 26 — Transformations
Barbary Coast Cloggers (American); Chinese Performing Artists of America; Dunsmuir Scottish Dancers; Harsanari Indonesian Dance Company; Kalanjali: Dances of India; Ong Dance Company (Korean); Shuvani (Romani-India/Turkey/Russia/Spain); Te Mana O Te Ra (Tahitian); Yaelisa and Caminos Flamencos (Spanish)
Tickets
Tickets to the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival go on sale on May 2, 2005. Ticket prices are $22 - $36. A subscription package for all three weekends of performances is priced from $60 - $98. Group discounts for 20 or more are available by calling (415) 474-3914. Tickets are available by calling City Box Office at (415) 392-4400; online at https://www.cityboxoffice.com or https://www.tickets.com.
Unique in the United States, the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival has been hailed as one of the most significant annual dance festivals in America, and as a major factor in making the Bay Area one of the dance capitals of the U.S. The Festival has been instrumental in introducing large audiences to many of the world’s most distinctive cultural traditions, presenting real art by real people from the many diverse cultural communities in the Bay Area and Northern California. Festival participants come from varied socioeconomic backgrounds and represent a broad range of occupations and lifestyles. Many are second and third generation dancers and musicians, and after 27 years, the children of Festival pioneers are recreating and preserving important work as their contribution to contemporary culture. Since 1978, the Festival has presented more than 14,000 dancers from over 600 companies, providing outstanding opportunities to artists who seek to present the dance expressions of their cultural and ethnic heritages.
The 27th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival is supported in part by Grants for the Arts of the San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, the California Arts Council, the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, KPMG, Target Corporation, and the San Francisco Foundation.
About World Arts West
World Arts West serves the ethnic, traditional, and folk dance communities of Northern California by presenting and advancing multicultural performing arts. Ongoing programs of World Arts West include: the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; People Like Me, an arts education program for grades K–6 modeled on the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival; the Community Involvement Initiative, a program designed to raise awareness of the ethnic dance community and its needs; and special events such as workshops and symposia.
World Arts West has been presenting and promoting the dance and music traditions of the world since 1978, creating opportunities for individuals and communities to celebrate, share, and sustain the vitality of ethnic and traditional dance. World Arts West promotes awareness and appreciation of cultural heritage for strengthening ethnic identity and community.
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