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Jen Shyu: Raging Waters, Red Sands at
Courtesy of Jen Shyu | Posted on August 11, 2010
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Tue, September 7, 2010
9:30 to 10:30
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Jen Shyu, composition, voice, dance, er hu
Satoshi Haga, dance & choreography
Oscar Noriega, clarinets
Chris Dingman, vibes
Mat Maneri, viola
Ches Smith, percussion
~Poetry by Patrícia Magalhães
The water god, in anger, cuts a hole in the sky. The sky opens. Rain pours out like a river, submerging the earth, allotting one man the fate to choose between saving his villagers from the flooding waters or being loyal to his wife and yet unborn son.
Notions of love, existence, and universal versus personal obligation are tested in this modern myth based on an ancient narrative form called “Shuo-chang,” literally meaning “speak-sing” in Mandarin Chinese...