Experience and Inspire The Voice of Hope and explore:
What is The current status of Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi?
What is The Guiding Wisdom of her Revolution of the Spirit?
What is The Nature of Freedom in an Interrelated World?
Why we Should Care about Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi?
Saturday July 17, 2010 1:00pm - 6:00p
Community Gallery [30 E. 35th Street, NYC, NY]
The event is Free and open to the public. Refreshments & Burmese appetizers will be served.
Watch the two minute trailer about Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi, below:
By Michael Stipe of R.E.M.
"The only real prison is fear, and the
only real freedom is freedom from fear."
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Come and Experience The Voice of Hope…
Tentative Program – July 17, 2010
Community Gallery – 30 E. 35th Street, NYC [Between Park and Madison Ave]
[1:30 pm – 2:00 pm] – Opening Remarks and sharing experiences of Aung San Suu Kyi - Alan Clements (Author, Activist, Satirist, former Buddhist monk, and co-author of The Voice of Hope with Aung San Suu Kyi – www.worlddharma.com)
[2:15 pm – 3:00 pm] – Burmese Traditional/Classical Music - Chaw Ei Thein (http://chaweithein.blogspot.com/)
[3:00 pm – 4:00 pm] – Meet, Greet & Mingle…
[4:00 pm – 5:00 pm] – 63th Anniversary of Burma’s Martyrs’ Day Ceremony -
IFBNC (International Foundation for Burma National
Congress)
[5:30 pm – 6:00 pm] – Entertainment Feature Part I - Fürimmer Jetzt by Ye Taik and Irem Calikusu
**Fürimmer Jetzt [Choreographed and Performed by Ye Taik & Irem Calikusu]
Ye Taik
Ye Taik is a Brooklyn-based avant-garde Butoh dancer/performing artist who was born in Rangoon, Burma. Since he moved in New York as an independent artist, he began his avant-garde Butoh training under the direction of Vangeline, Ko Murobushi and Diego Pinon. He has had a pleasure of working with Vangeline Theater, The Internationalists, No-where Now-here, Performa 09, WaxWork, Center for Performance Research and various venues included Bubble Lounge, United Nation Plaza. He loves to collaborate with others. (Photo: Azumi Oe Venue : CPR )
Irem’s life as a dancer started in Istanbul, at the Theater Research Lab with Mustafa Kaplan. Being deeply moved by a Butoh performance she saw in Istanbul, she went on to complete a Master’s thesis on Butoh and post war politics in Japan at the Anthropology Department of UMass, Amherst. She has studied Butoh with Min Tanaka, Akira Kasai, and Ko Murobushi, Body Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Modern Dance at the Cunningham School for Dance. She has danced with Ko Murobushi, Takuya Muramatsu, Mari Osanai and Leimay. She has shown work in various venues in Istanbul and New York including Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place, NY Butoh Festival, the CAVE, Construction Company, Cunningham Studio and CATI Dance Studio.
