At rehearsal with Maura Donohue and In MIxed Company for the Dance NOW! Festival! Tomorrow evening, over 300 people will hear the sound of the shakuhachi.
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Sept 8 - 11 at 7:30pm
$20 Advance Sale/$25 at the Door
For tickets call the box office 12 - 8pm at 212.924.0077
More info at Dance Theater Workshop - http://www.dancetheaterworkshop.org/dancenownyc

This year’s festival will showcase the work of 4O innovative contemporary dance makers with an added challenge. Festival Twenty Ten participants have been asked to adopt Dance NOWs’ “less is more” attitude, and present a work that is a maximum of seven minutes long while still maintaining a concise, clear and complete artistic message.

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Welcome to the home of New York City performing artist and shakuhachi craftsman Perry Yung. In 2002, I received support by both the American and Japanese governments to specifically study shakuhachi making and playing in Japan. I received combined grants from the Japan-US Friendship Commission, National Endowment for the Arts and the International House in Tokyo that enabled me to travel throughout Japan to meet with both Zen and modern shakuhachi makers and master players. I was introduced to my main shakuhachi making and playing sensei, Kinya Sogawa, through my NYC shakuhachi teacher, Ralph Samuelson. Before I embarked on my journey to Japan, I had been performing on the shakuhachi in experimental theater productions internationally with La MaMa E.T.C. What I discovered in Japan was utterly fantastic and beyond the scope of an introduction. It would be both a privilege and honor to share that experience with you and encourage any questions what so ever. This unique flute is shrouded in the mysteries of ancient folklore and much of the information on the internet is a incomplete and biased. My Blog would a great place to start your explorations as my mission is the share the shakuhachi in the clearest light.

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