This information is from the 2008 International Body Music Festival.
For current information, please see
internationalbodymusicfestival.com
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The First IBMF features the premier of a collaborative Body Music work - Barbatuques (São Paulo, Brazil), and Slammin All Body Band (Oakland, CA) - a culmination of three years of conversation.
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Photo: Manolo Moran |
Barbatuques
São Paulo, BRAZIL
artist website
Founded by musician Fernando Barba, BARBATUQUES is an exciting 12 member Body Music ensemble that moves the rich musical traditions of Brazil through their "circle orchestra" - exploring composition, choreography and improvisation through the range of sounds on bodies. Touring throughout Brazil and Europe since 1996, this appearance is their US debut.
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Video
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SLAMMIN All-Body Band
Oakland, CA
artist website
Deeply rooted in Jazz, Funk, R&B and World Music grooves, Slammin is a ferocious ensemble with infectious harmonies and lightening-fast improvisations. For the Festival, Slammin is expanding to feature vocalists Sakai, Bryan Dyer & Kenny Washington, beatboxer Steve Hogan and Body Musicians Keith Terry, Evie Ladin, Namita Kapoor and Nuria Bowart.
FRI, SAT, SUN
Video
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KeKeÇa
Istanbul, TURKEY
artist website
Tugay Basar and Timuçin Gürer founded KeKeÇa to explore Body Music as a performance medium and cross-cultural teaching tool. Moving gracefully through the rhythms and odd-time signatures of Turkish folk music, they create the sublime. They teach all ages and abilities, most recently a Body Music project with Deaf students.
THURS, FRI, SAT
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The Kecak Project
Dewa Putu Berata
Bali, INDONESIA
with members of
Gamelan Sekar Jaya
Gamelan X
Oakland, CA
artist website
Dewa Putu Berata, Director of Cudamani, a Balinese performance ensemble, leads this Kecak Project. Kecak (Keh-CHAK), or monkey chant, was originally part of Bali's Sanghyang trance dance. It's high energy, interlocking vocal patterns, ranging from primordial animal gutturals to ethereal melodies of exquisite beauty and sophistication have inspired some of Bali's most innovative contemporary choreography. This new Kecak piece is being created especially for the First IBMF.
FRI
Kecak Video
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Sam McGrier
Chicago, IL
Unfortunately, due to illness, Mr. McGrier is unable to travel to the festival. He expresses his deepest regrets.
One of the original “Hambone Kids” with the hit record “Hambone, Hambone” - Recorded in 1952 with the Red Saunders Big Band. Mr. McGrier is an elder in the community of performers of the traditional African-American Hambone.
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Derique McGee
San Francisco, CA
artist website
A solo Hambone artist who has explored electronic suits, clowning and wizardry in the pursuit of Body Music, Derique is known throughout the Bay Area as a creative and dynamic performer. Here Derique will appear in Hambone Conversation with Sam McGrier.
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Celina Kalluk & Lucie Idlout
Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
Inuit throat-singing (katatjaq). A traditional technique performed by two women standing close together using each others mouths as resonators to produce guttural vocal sounds through voice manipulation and breathing techniques, often ending in laughter.
THURS, SAT, SUN
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Sandy Silva
Montreal, Canada
artist website
Through improvisation, body percussion and original choreography, Sandy draws from the drum and dance traditions of Celtic step dance, Spanish Flamenco, American tap, Hungarian legenyes, Appalachian buck dance and modern dance. The result is rich and riveting, full of rhythmic and visual inventiveness. Sandy currently performs with Quebec megastars La Bottine Souriante, The Red Rabbit Project and Zebratones with Charmaine Leblanc.
FRI
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Loop-It
Bordeaux, France
artist website
With poetry, burlesque, a profusion of energy and laughter, Loop-It's duo can be musicians, dancers or clowns. Their recent show, Loopings, involves finger-snapping, vocal drums, chair rumbling and toy balloon solos.
FRI
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Top Notch Steppers
San Francisco, CA
From the African-American Cultural Center, a national minority non-profit, come the sensational Top Notch Steppers. Winners of many first place prizes for Drill Team, these devoted young women overcome the adversity in their urban environment to perform and compete in a tight ensemble that demands excellence and discipline.
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