IHJ Artists’ Forum
[IHJ Artists’ Forum/Live concert + fieldwork video screening] Projecting Tradition into the Future & the Creative Voice Within
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- Friday, June 7, 2019 7:00 pm
- Venue: Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall, International House of Japan
- Artist: Jen Shyu (Composer, Vocalist, Multi-instrumentalist, Dancer, Producer; US-Japan Creative Artists Program Fellow)
- Language: English (with consecutive interpretation)
- Co-sponsored by the Japan-US Friendship Commission (JUSFC)
- Admission: Free (reservations required)
Shyu will offer the audience a window into her creative process with a lecture and video screening of her extensive fieldwork in traditional music, dance and ritual from her parents’ native countries of East Timor and Taiwan, along with her research in Indonesia, Korea and Japan.
She will talk specifically about her current research into noh and biwa and how learning aspects of these traditions has influenced her original music and theatrical works. Shyu will perform excerpts from her last solo work Nine Doors as well as excerpts from Zero Grasses (work-in-progress).
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