This information is from the 2009 International Body Music Festival.
For current information, please see
internationalbodymusicfestival.com
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The Second IBMF features a fantastic array of specialized Body Music from around the world...more artists still to be announced.
Unfortunately, due to visa issues, Vocal Sampling will be unable to attend the Festival.
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Step Afrika!
Washington, DC
stepping, gumboot
SAT, SUN
artist website
Step Afrika! celebrates stepping, an art form born in African American fraternities and based in African traditions. As the first professional company dedicated to stepping, Step Afrika!'s intricate kicks, stomps and rhythms mixed with spoken word pound the floor and fill the air.
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Kenny Muhammad, aka The Human Orchestra
New York, NY
human beatbox vocal percussion
THURS, FRI, SAT
artist website
With astounding ingenuity, Kenny Muhammad has put an entirely new twist on the art of the human beat box. Three-time consecutive winner on Showtime At The Apollo, Kenny has shared stages with numerous artists, from Public Enemy, Stevie Wonder and Take 6, to The New York Symphony Orchestra. Variety Magazine touted Kenny as the James Brown version of Bobby McFerrin, Max Roach & Elvin Jones. A melodious ride of sight, sound and imagination.
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Fátima Moreno González and Silvia Moreno Gil
Madrid, Spain
flamenco palmas, voice, feet
WED, THURS, FRI, SAT, SUN
Originally from Sevilla and Córdoba, Spain, Fátima and Silvia are accomplished dancers and teachers in the Flamenco style. For the IBMF they are preparing a special program that combines palmas with voice and footwork.
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Bouchaib Abdel Hadi with Amine Qarqabi, Susu Pampanin, Faisal Zadan
North Africa and Persian Gulf
arabic interlocking clapping
SAT
Bay Area musicians Bouchaib Abdel Hadi (Morocco), Amine Qarqabi (Morocco), Faisal Zedan (Syria), Susu Pampanin (U.S.A.) are
honored to be invited to collaborate with Keith Terry at the 2009 Body Music
Festival. We come together to demonstrate the interlocking clapping and drumming found specifically
in the tradional music of both Morocco and the Khaleej region (countries around the Arabian Gulf / Persian Gulf).
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De Rompe Y Raja
Alameda, CA
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Zapateo Master Braulio Barrera
Lima, Peru
afro-peruvian zapateo with vocal percussion
WED, THURS, FRI, SUN
artist website
Afro-Peruvian performers of zapateo criollo - a unique style of syncopated hard shoe footwork that mixes African rhythms with Creole, Spanish Roma, European and indigenous Peruvian rhythms.
Normally danced to the rhythms of guitar, cajón and vocals, in neighborhoods where instruments were scarce, musicians and dancers perfected a vocal style simulating the guitar and cajón. The group will perform this full Body Music, with master dancer Braulio Barrera.
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Manuia Polynesian Revue
San Francisco, CA
Samoan sasa and slap dance
SAT
artist website
Manuia presents the beauty and excitement of traditional arts from the Polynesian Islands. Presenting the Fa'a Tau Pati, a men's slap dance, ridding themselves of mosquitoes, and Sasa, a seated form that rhythmically illustrates activities in daily life such as playing, ceremony preparation and canoe paddling.
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Photo: Paul Haggard |
Keith Terry
Oakland, CA
contemporary body music
WED, THURS, FRI, SAT, SUN
artist website
Artistic Director of Crosspulse and the IBMF, Keith began his career as a jazz trap-set drummer. Inspired and encouraged by a generation of tap dancers that has since passed, Keith developed a singular, contemporary style of Body Music which he uses in collaboration with artists from Bobby McFerrin to the Turtle Island String Quartet and many more. Over 30 years he has developed a methodology used by performers and educators world-wide.
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Photo: Anja Beutler |
LeeLa Petronio
Paris, France
contemporary body music
FRI, SAT
artist website
A Franco-American tap dancer and body percussionist, LeeLa is a choreographer, teacher and producer, and has been part of the European cast of STOMP since 2001. Artistic Director of the Hip Tap Project, a percussive dance ensemble which blends rhythm tap, hip hop, body percussion and live music, at the IBMF LeeLa is appearing solo.
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Max Pollak
New York, NY
Afro-Cuban RumbaTap
TUES, FRI, SAT
artist website
Max merges authentic Afro-Cuban music and dance with American rhythm tap and body music to create RumbaTap. The originator of Cuba's first tap festival, he has been teaching and performing there since 1998, and has worked with Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Cuba's top-ranked Rumba group, among others.
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With: Evie Ladin contemporary Body Music; Derique McGee Youth Ensemble hambone; The San Francisco School Students Body Music through ORFF; Steve Hogan beatbox; Bryan Dyer bass vocals/beatbox; Rashidi Omari hip-hop contemporary dance; Özgü Bulut and Timuçin Gürer Turkish repertoire for body, Maica Folch clown |
Check out the 2008 Festival Artists here »
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