Sva (Vital
Force)
A new work by Wadaiko Ensemble
TOKARA and
Ragamala Music and Dance Theatre of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, this collaboration between two culturally-based art forms;
Wadaiko (also called taiko), and Bharatanatyam, an ancient classical dance form
from southern India,
brings the driving percussion and sweeping physicality of TOKARA
into conversation with the complex rhythms and athletic precision
of Ragamala’s work.
Sva explores the kinships between the two art forms and the Hindu
and Shinto spiritual traditions from which they emerge. The graceful
melodies of Tokara Artistic Director Art Lee on the shinobue flute
augment the powerful rhythms of the Taiko.
Sva
will be performed in Japan in 2008 as part of Wadaiko Artist Art Lee's
15th Anniversary Concert Tour.
2008
September
12th - Nagano-ken,
Matsumoto Bunka Kaikan
September 13th - Nagoya City Kita Bunka
Sho Gekijyo
September 20th - Iida City Bunka Kaikan
as part of the Third Annual Saiwai Shimoina Wadaiko Festival.
The following are performance currently set as part of the "Sva
- Vital Force" 2008 - 2009 World Tour.
May
1st - 4th, 2008
Sva Debut
The Southern Theater
Minneapolis Minnesota
August 20th
- 23rd,
2008
Festival of Spirituality and Peace
St. John's Church
Edinburgh, Scotland
7:30p.m.
November
3rd - 7th,
2008
University of Maine, Farmington
Farmington, Maine
November
20th - 22nd,
2008
Montgomery
Community College
Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
February
12th - 13th,
2009
St.
Anselm College
Manchester, New Hampshire
February
14th,
2009
Westchester
Community College
Valhalla, New York
February
16th,
2009
Shepherd
University
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
February
19th - 21st,
2009
Monmouth
University
West Long Branch, New Jersey
February
22nd - 23rd,
2009
Kutztown
University
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
February
24th,
2009
Kupferberg
Center for the Performing Arts
Flushing, New York
March
31st,
2009
Oklahoma
State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma
April
3rd,
2009
California
Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
April
4th,
2009
Poway Center for the Performing
Arts
Poway, California
April
7th - 8th,
2009
Performances
to Grow On
Ojai, California
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If you would like
to book "Sva" for an upcoming performance, please contact
Wadaiko TOKARA.
Wadaiko TOKARA Japan
831-1 Kega, Iida-City, Nagano Prefecture 395-0813
TEL: 0265-59-8768 Email: info@tokara.net
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