Live from the Lawn - Summer Dance Showcase

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Live from the Lawn - Summer Dance Showcase
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Type: Exhibit / Entertainment
Date: Friday - 6/5/2009
Time: 5 - 9pm
Location:
250 South Hotel Street,
2nd Floor
Honolulu, HI 96813
Phone: (808) 586-0307 or
586-0900
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Cost: Free

Live from the Lawn -- Summer Dance Showcase First Friday, May 1st, 2009, 6-9 p.m., Hawai'i State Art Museum, Free

Join us for Summer Dance Showcase, our Live from the Lawn event at the Hawai‘i State Art Museum on First Friday on June 5^th from 6 to 9 p.m. This free event features Iona Contemporary Dance Theatre, Tau (y2), Convergence Dance Theatre, and Sangha Dance Theatre.

This program will highlight many contemporary dance forms – hula, ballet, modern dance, belly dancing, break dancing, fire dancing, and tango, plus fusions of traditional and contemporary dance. Don’t be late, there are lots of performers in this jam-packed show!

Iona Contemporary Dance Theatre kicks off the evening as one of its costumed, stilt-walking performers entertains guests on the front lawn. The group blends Japanese Butoh with Western-style modern dance. They perform in many venues in Hawai‘i and the mainland.

Tau Dance Theater’s youth group, Tau (y2) will showcase keiki girl dancers in a fantastic performance. Artistic director Peter Rockford Espiritu leads the group, which combines ballet, modern dance, and hula.

Convergence Dance Theatre features dancers who perform modern, improvisation, ballet, and jazz dance. This talented group is led by Jennifer Butler Shannon, who received her MFA in dance from UH Manoa.

Sangha Dance Theater, led by dancer/choreographer Willow Chang, will give a belly dance performance. Next, you will be entertained by dancers from Chang’s show “Puja: Gods and Monsters,” with Anasma Vuong, Meissoun Gasser, Eduardo Rodrigues, and Michael McElhaney.

SkillRoy will astound you in an amazing break dancing performance. He started his dance career at the age of 11 and is now one of the finest break dancers in Hawai‘i. SkillRoy performs both locally and internationally.

The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps will perform a salute to the military. As one of the U.S. Army’s premiere musical organizations, this group has inspired audiences throughout the nation and abroad for nearly half a century.

Be sure to visit the Lanai Lounge on the second floor, where Rachel Gonzales, Rea Fox, and Starr Kalahiki will sing jazz and blues standards. They will be joined by the Ernie Provencher Jazz Trio with Ernie on bass, Chuck James on drums, and Aaron Aranita on keyboards.

Food will be available from Le Crepe Café, Hank’s Haute Dogs, and Land of Organica. Downtown @ the HiSAM, the museum restaurant, will be open for dinner. You can also visit our museum gift shop, Shop@HiSAM, which features locally-made handcrafted gifts.

Dancers from Convergence Dance Theatre will perform modern, improvisation, ballet, and jazz dance.

The keiki dancers of Tau (y2), Tau Dance Theater’s youth group, combine ballet, modern dance, hula.

The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, one of the U.S. Army’s premiere musical organizations, will perform.

Dancer/choreographer Willow Chang will feature dancers from her show, “Puja: Gods and Monsters.”

Hawai‘i Fire Artists will amaze you with their blazing dances that are sure to heat up the evening.

Starr Kalahiki will sing jazz and blues standards in her own special style at the second floor Lanai Lounge.

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