>Sha Sha has been busy teaching,traveling,performing,and creating
>a little art lodge.
>This what is happening next week:
>
>"White Sea/ Light On Water" with Sha Sha Higby and Tuju Taksu Masked Dance
> International performance artist Sha Sha Higby combines forces
>with masked dance group Tuju Taksu, to create a magical evening of
>evocative masks, sculptural costume, puppetry, and dance.
>WHEN: August 11,12,13,14, 8:00 pm (Thurs-Sun)
>
>WHERE: Young Performers Theater Fort Mason Center,Building C, 3rd
>flr, San Francisco
>
>TICKETS $20:
> available at TICKETWEB.COM,TIXBYMAIL & at the door
> questions (415)868-2409
>
>WORKSHOPS
>Make a Dancing Mask and Wings on a Stick with Sha Sha Higby
>Saturday, August 20 and/or September 10 12-5 p.m
>
> info:415.868.2409 & TICKETWEB
>....also we are looking for helpers those evenings August
>11-14, call 415-868-2409 if able to help in exchange for a ticket.
>
>Sha Sha Higby is known for her haunting performances using the
>exquisite and ephemeral body sculptural "clusters" she meticulously
>creates and moves within.Tuju Taksu is characterized by their bold,
>original masks created during a ten year collaboration by director
>Maru Matthaei and Ida Bagus Oka, a master mask carver from Bali.
>Featured in "Bay City Best" (SF Chronicle) The textures of these
>artists' work will both juxtapose and interweave with each other for
>enticing combinations within a transformative evening of mist, light
>and shadow.
>The artists use varying illusions of scale, seamlessly blending
>masks, movement, and music in a drama of memory and timelessness.
>These elaborate creations suggest ancient worldwide cultures,
>inspired by the the artist's study in Japan, Indonesia, and India.
> "a Higby performance is a blissful combination of shamanism,dance,&
>puppetry in which the costume comes alive. For three decades her art
>has remained as impressively unique as it is whimsically
>refreshing." SFChronicle...."sculptural anthropology" (Times)
> Tuju Taksu is characterized by their original masks, created
>during a a ten year collaboration by director Maru Matthaei and Ida
>Bagus Oka, a master mask carver from Bali. Featured in "Best of the
>Bay" (SF Chronicle); "prepare for an evening of highly original
>entertainment" - (Bali Spirit Magazine)
> Elements of Asian and Western traditions influence this "theater of
>slow passion"(Ornament Magazine) unique for their"metaphorically
>hyper functional outfits ...combining elements of sculpture,
>puppetry and wind chimes." (Independent,Colorado)..Sculptural
>costume,dance, and puppetry explore the atmospheric world within the
>magical borders between death and life. "layers of color and
>texture that float like an apparition as Higby moves" The Times.
>For the last two decades, she has performed & taught extensively
>throughout the United States, Asia, Australia, and Europe. She
>creates a fantastical world where her rich costumes, meticulously
>formed from wood, paper, silk, Japanese lacquer, ceramics and gold
>leaf, come to life unexpectedly.
>
>Tuju Taksu is an innovative performance troupe that features
>original masks created, blessed and danced in Bali. They have
>performed for the past ten years in Bali and the Bay Area with a
>changing cast of international performers from Indonesia, America,
>Germany, Israel, and many other countries. Since all pieces contain
>improvisation, each performer brings an individual interpretation to
>the piece, so each performance is unique. The masks communicate in
>ways that transcend time, place, and cultural boundaries.
>The music for Tuju Taksu is by Mark Deutsch.
>
>Mark Deutsch is a visionary artist with a background in non-linear
>mathematics, sacred systems and cosmology. As a classically trained
>bassist and sitar player he has gained extensive experience
>inorchestral ensembles, world music traditions, jazz combos, and
>solo sitar performance. Whilst studying sitar and North Indian
>classical music with the legendary Ustad Imrat Khan, Mark began
>delving deeper into the universal fundamentals of music and their
>underlying frequency structures. These studies culminated in 1999
>with Mark being awarded the US patent for his ground breaking new
>instrument the Bazantar - a five-string acoustic bass fitted with an
>additional twenty-nine sympathetic strings and four drone strings.
>The result is a remarkable instrument that weaves a mesmerizing
>soundscape of resonance, and evokes all the power of Western
>classical music with the depth and nuance of Eastern traditions.
>
>
>http://www.shashahigby.com
>http://www.tujutaksu.com
