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VidyA in Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Courtesy of April Kim | Posted on April 29, 2010
Where
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
When
Sat, May 29, 2010
8pm
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Musicians
Sameer Gupta
tablasVidyA
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JAZZ PERFORMANCES BY VIDYA AND RINA MEHTA May 29, 8pm
OACCs new artists in residence VidyA and Rina Mehta will be featuring new pieces.
VIDYA shows what happens when the richness of South Indian Carnatic classical music meets the improvisations of jazz. Featuring Prasant Radhakrishnan (saxophone), David Ewell (bass) and Sameer Gupta (drums), VidyA will present original compositions as well as some re-imagined traditional Carnatic music pieces.
The Kathak dance tradition is based on upaj (improvisation), tayari (preparation of technique), layakari (performing and improvising intricate rhythms) and khoobsurti and nazakat (beauty and subtlety of movement and expression). It is a tour-de-force performance of percussive footwork, singing, poetry, and acting. Rina Mehta presents excerpts from a full-length traditional solo including a vandana (invocation), a gat-bhao (full-length) story and Kathak Yoga. Rina is accompanied by Ben Kunin, disciple of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, on sarod and Salar Nadar, disciple of Ustaad Zakir Hussain, on tabla....