"Generations" with Gulistan Dance Theater, Don McLeod, Mike the Poet, Liz Hoefner and Yorgos Adamis March 11, 2007

Open Gate Theatre presents
"Generations"
Fifth in an Opening Moves Concert Series
Curated by Laurie Buenafe Krsmanovic
Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:00PM

Performances by

Don McLeod

Gulistan Dance Theater

Mike the Poet

Yorgos Adamis & Liz Hoefner Adamis

World dance, music, spoken word, and freeplay,
honoring all ages from the Silk Road to the Streets of LA!

Center for the Arts
2225 Colorado Blvd, Eagle Rock, CA
(one block west of Eagle Rock Blvd
near the intersection of 2 and 134 freeways)
Free parking is plentiful
$15 Admission ($10 Students, Seniors, DRC members and Series artists)
For info call (626) 795-4989

A dance and music jam will follow concert.

www.opengatetheatre.com

Evocatively lush, this month's Opening Moves concert explores the theme of "Generations" with an eclectic program featuring dance, music and spoken word performances by outstanding imaginative artists. Eastern, Western, and off-the-map genres converge and cross lines: a child's smile deep as wrinkles navigates ancestor hall . . .

--Known for its authentic collection of cultural dances of the Silk Road, Gulistan Dance Theater heads in a new direction as it travels "In the Shadow of the Caravan." This four-part suite infuses tradition with imagination and innovation-- creating a curious concoction.
http://home.earthlink.net/~gulistan

--Third generation Los Angeleno poet journalist historian Mike Sonksen (aka Mike the Poet) "sings the flatlands and the mean streets."
http://www.myspace.com/mikethepoet

--Choreographer Liz Hoefner Adamis and composer Yorgos Adamis, who recently returned from native Greece, perform a collaborative work.

--Butoh artist Don McLeod reconfigures the topography of generation gaps in a "voiceless primal drama" danced to improvised music by Open Gate Theater.
http://www.zenbutoh.com

This exciting concert's featured artists are joined by an impressive variety of guest dancers and musicians, including Michael Cox, Chris Henry, Kathy Inscore, Donavon Lerman, Will Salmon, SuperKate, Tj Troy, Jeff Willis, and Silas Willis. Rooted in ageless creativity, spontaneously blossoming the moment divine, we invite you to celebrate our multigenerational intersections of time.

Official Website: http://www.opengatetheatre.com