International Body Music Festival

Stay Tuned for the next IBMF in December, 2009, followed by the IBMF on TOUR, Summer, 2010. Contact Alexandra Casazza @ Trouble Worldwide for bookings.

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The First International Body Music Festival - SOLD OUT RUN!

Six days of Contemporary and Traditional Body Music presented in Concerts, Workshops, Teacher Trainings, Lecture/Demonstration, Body Music Open-Mic, Family Matinee, and in-school Assembly Programs in Oakland and San Francisco, CA, December 2-7, 2008. Artistic Director: Keith Terry

Artists from BRAZIL, TURKEY, INDONESIA, THE ARCTIC, FRANCE, CANADA and the US.

See PHOTOS by MIKE MELNYK
- THURS 12/4
- FRI 12/5
- SUN 12/7

See PHOTOS by KEN MENDOZA, NGO and Non-Profit Photography
- THURS 12/4
- SAT 12/6

Listen to the IBMF on MORNING EDITION on NPR from FRIDAY DEC 5!

Read about it!
SF CHRONICLE 12.9.08
OAKLAND TRIBUNE 12.4.08
CONTRA COSTA TIMES 12.4.08
EAST BAY EXPRESS 12.2.08
SF CHRONICLE 11.30.08 - 1
SF CHRONICLE 11.30.08 - 2
WALL STREET JOURNAL 11.28.08
SANTA CRUZ SENTINAL 11.28.08
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS 11.26.08
EAST BAY EXPRESS 11.26.08
ALL ABOUT JAZZ 11.20.08

THANKS
All of us at Crosspulse want to thank everyone who contributed to make the First International Body Music Festival a huge success. Artists, volunteers, audience, donors, press, partners, production crew and staff - felt transported by the range of body music performance: that with basically the same instrument we express not just music and dance, but our cultures, our specific body language. As the first gathering of its kind, it proved a very powerful and moving experience. Every program over the six days was well attended, the educational outreach reached over 2,500 students and teachers, and all the concerts sold out in advance. We know this IBMF is the first of many. The next IBMF is scheduled for December, 2009.

The International Body Music Festival was produced by Crosspulse, an Oakland-based non-profit arts organization dedicated to the performance, recording and education of cross-cultural rhythmic arts.

Funded in part by National Endowment for the Arts, Oakland Cultural Arts Fund, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Lighting Artists in Dance, Walter & Elise Hass Fund, Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.