Where We Meet The Silver Moon
About this Event
Where We Meet the Silver Moon will include works like Movement Still, Whispers, Timelapse, Bodhichitta Bunny, and Spiral Moon. The program weaves together flowers, moonlight, and unexpected encounters to explore how we grow, return, and find one another across the years. Rooted in Asian American experience and animated by a spirit of curiosity and hope, this performance celebrates a quarter century of artistic collaboration while looking toward the future with imagination and grace.
Where We Meet the Silver Moon brings together new works that reflect on time, memory, and becoming. Accompanied by original live music and evocative visual imagery, the evening moves between whispers and flowers, moonlight and transformation, asking how we carry one another through the years and what possibilities emerge when we gather in community. Created and performed by artists who have grown up alongside the company itself, this anniversary season celebrates not only a remarkable history but an ongoing act of becoming.
More at: dNaga.org/calendar/silver-moon-friday
CAST & COLLABORATORS
Conceived and Directed by Claudine Naganuma
Choreography by Claudine Naganuma and dNaga Dance Co.
Composers: Joel Davel, Elainie Lillios
Live Musician: Joel Davel (photo)
Lighting, Visual Design, Technical Direction: Dale MacDonald
Animation: Elmira Bagherzadeh
Dancers: Lihong Chan, Moriah Costa, Raychel Hatch, Catalina Jackson-Urueña (photo), Lucie Jerome, Eleanor Kerwin, Erin Landers, Leila Massoudi, Gabby Wei
ABOUT dNaga Dance Co.
For twenty-five years, dNaga Dance Co. has created performances that weave together movement, music, image, and story in unexpected ways. From early works inspired by myth and folklore to recent explorations of Asian American identity, social justice, and the lived experiences of people with Parkinson's disease, the company has remained committed to dance as a space for imagination, inquiry, and connection.
dNaga’s community programs are offered free of charge. They include Dance for PD® (founded in 2007) and GIRL Project (founded in 2013). To learn more and support our work, please visit: donate.mazloweb.com
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Claudine Naganuma (Choreographer) was born and raised in San Francisco and currently lives in Oakland where she directs her dance company, dNaga. Naganuma is the founder of the GIRL Project, a free art and empowerment workshop for girls living in East Oakland housed at the EastSide Cultural Center.. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing and Poetry from Dominican College. After receiving her M.F.A. in Choreography and Performance from Mills College, she served as the Artistic Director of Asian American Dance Performances and was a founding board member of the SF Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center. She served as the Director of Danspace studio in Oakland where she continues to be the Program Director for Dance for PD®, Oakland. Her choreography was part of Dave Iverson's 2014 documentary Capturing Grace and the company has performed at the World Parkinson's Congress in Portland, Kyoto and Barcelona. www.dNaga.org
Joel Davel (Composer and Live Musician/ Audio Technician) has been working with dNaga since before the inception of dNaga. He is the lead engineer of Buchla USA and plays the invented instrument called the Marimba Lumina designed in collaboration with Don Buchla. He plays with Paul Dresher and several Bay Area opera companies as a composer/sound designer on invented innovative controllers.
Dale MacDonald (Lighting Designer & Technical Director) revels in the play of light. In addition to being the Lighting Designer and Technical Director of dNaga, he has worked with Moving Arts Dance, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep Chorus, Terrain Dance Collective, and Ruth Botchan Dance Company. He received his M.F.A. at UC Berkeley where studied with David Elliot. He combines his experiences as an artist, scientist, designer, and engineer to bring a certain alchemy to interactions with information. Much of this work has been done for public settings, which adds a significant social component to the design space.
Link to dNaga Dance Co.’s Company Dancer Biographies: Company Dancers Biographies
ABOUT Dresher Ensemble Studio
The Dresher Ensemble rehearsal studio is ideal for the creation and rehearsal of dance, theater, opera, musical theater, interdisciplinary performance, and all types of musical rehearsals, including projects with substantial amplification or electronic music set-ups, and small to large instrumental or vocal ensemble rehearsals. Their goal is to provide the most effective space for the creative and collaborative process in the creation of new performing arts. Dresher’s New Performance Traditions provides a diverse, equitable, and inclusive space where all artists, audiences, employees, board members, and volunteers, whatever their gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation or identity, religion, socioeconomic or immigration status, education, or disability, feel valued, heard, and respected.
Photo: Catalina Jackson-Urueña and Joel Davel. Courtesy of Mitch Tobias.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 35.00 to USD 135.00
