performance
This unique event promises to be a sensory overload, featuring fantastical art, music, food, and live performances that will awe guests. Look forward to being entertained by this rare cultural extravaganza!
The Shimmy Sisters are a professional belly dance troupe based in San Diego, Ca. directed by Leilainia and Adelaide. The sisters style is a unique blend of belly dance forms they term as Cabaret Collage. They fuse traditional Middle-Eastern dance with styles of modern, salsa, African, Indian, ballet and hip-hop, to bring out the essential elements of who they are.
Passed on through generations of art, music and dance, Leilainia [Lay-Lane-Ya ] and Adelaide created The Shimmy Sisters to carry on the joy of their heritage. Upon finding their niche in the world, The Sisters do all they can to spread the ART of the DANCE.
They meld their talents and passions to elicit a more personal response from the audience. They work alone and together learning to connect with and touch the audience in new ways allowing the viewers to forget where they are and simply experience the moment. They are an electricity of inspiration; dancing with their whole heart and letting the performance flow out of them. Their contagious energy led them to become the Ultimate Troupe Winners of “Hips Of Fury” 2006 and People’s Choice Bellydancer of the Universe 2007.
Choy Lee Fut is a comprehensive authentic system of Chinese Kung Fu that includes Hand and Weapon forms, Qigong, Wooden Dummy training and Lion Dancing. The San Diego Choy Lee Fut Hung Sing Gwoon was founded by Sifu Thomas Fuhr in 2005 under the banner of the Chan Family 5th generation patriarch Master Chen Yong Fa. Sifu Thomas has over 25 years of experince in the martial arts and is ranked as a Country Master Wing Sing Tong disciple of Master Chen Yong Fa.
The lion is a very important symbolic icon for a Kung Fu school as it embodies the spirit and energy of that school. Footwork displayed by the lion is rrepresentative and typifies the stancework used in the school's style. A typical lion dance troupe consists of five to seven people, the minimum being five. Each member of the troupe is usually assigned a special function. Two people will man the lion,consisting of a "head" and a "tail"; a third will be the drummer, another a gong player, with up to three or more symbol players. On some occasions a Dai Tau Fut or big-headed Buddha is also used.
Today, we present the Lion Dance at all important festivals and occasions, because the Lion Dance brings happiness, prosperity and good fortune to all the people attending the celebrations.
Pakaraguian Kulintang Ensemble of the Samahan Filipino American Performing Arts and Education Center performs traditional gong music & dances from Mindanao Island, Philippines.
Pakaraguian is the Maguindanao term for a celebration of music & dance. Kulintang music is indigenous Mindanao music that is played among the Maranaos, Maguindanaos, and Tausug tribes.
This music is played at social gatherings, during weddings, festivals, healing rituals, to accompany dances, as a form of recreation, and sometimes to drive away evil spirits. Formed in Sept 2003 by UCLA graduates Bernard Ellorin, Mary Talusan, Eleanor Lipat, Peter Paul De Guzman and Nickki Martin, this group has been performing all over Southern California at different festivals, colleges, and events.