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How many different ways can the body be played? Find out at the 2nd International Body Music Festival, now through Sunday at venues in San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley.Traditional and contemporary Body Music styles around the world include hambone, palmas, saman, gumboot, sasa, kecak, stepping, beatboxing and more. It’s music you can see, dance you can hear, according to Body Music pioneer, 2008 Guggenheim Fellow and Festival director Keith Terry, whose vision goes well beyond belly-slap techniques. For Terry, it’s about a cross-cultural conversation touching that visceral place that only the world’s oldest instrument can reach. The Festival will present body musicians performing traditional and contemporary pieces from the U.S., France, Samoa, Peru “and other popping, stomping, humming corners of the world.” Watch for Samoan sasa, Flamenco clapping, Rhumba tap, Oakland hambone and other percussive and a capella wonders.Along with concerts, there will be workshops, teacher trainings, a lecture-demonstration, body music open-mic, family matinee, and in-school assembly programs. Venues include Freight & Salvage and La Peña in Berkeley and Herbst Theatre, Brava Theater, Zambaleta School and Coda in San Francisco. Click here for festival and ticket information. 12/02/09 >> go there
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