Master storyteller Brenda Wong Aoki weaves together Indian, Afro-Peruvian, Mayan and Korean dance companies with her own Japanese Noh and Kyogen training, telling the Japanese legend of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. Accompanied by musicians and led by composer Mark Izu, this story highlights how dance and music can bring light in times of darkness. This visually alluring, multi-cultural performance premiered to sold-out crowds at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and features Shreelata Suresh, De Rompe y Raja Cultural Association, Northern California Korean Dance Association and Ensambles Ballet Folklórico de San Francisco.

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The oldest and most celebrated contemporary dance company in the world mounts a performance in honor of Martha Graham, the American genius and the founder of modern dance. See Prelude and Revolt and other early dance masterpieces on JCCSF’s Kanbar stage in this rare, San Francisco appearance.

“They seem able to do anything, and to make it look easy as well as poetic.”
– Los Angeles Times

Presented through the generosity of Stephen and Nancy Grand.

Made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Masterpieces: Dance Initiative, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts.

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