Japanese Tradition of Performance Art Comes To Wheaton Campus
Tomie Hahn, performance artist, ethnologist and an Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artist presents an evening of Japanese dance and music at Wheaton College on Wednesday November 12 at 7:30 p. m.
Tomie Hahn, performance artist, ethnologist and an Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artist presents an evening of Japanese dance and music at Wheaton College on Wednesday November 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ellison Dance Studio in Balfour-Hood Center.
Tomie Hahn is an artist of Japanese performing arts. She is a teacher/performer of shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), and nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance) using the professional stage name, Samie Tachibana. Her teaching and performance art deals with issues of identity and creative expression of multiracial individuals. She works with the relationships of technology and culture; interactive dance/movement performance and gestural control; extended human/computer interface in the performing arts.
Hahn holds degrees in art history, music performance, and ethnomusicology and has performed and lectured at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The American Museum of Natural History, Japan Society, Asia Society, The Freer-Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, MIT Media Lab, Franklin Furnace, ABC No Rio, Mobius and Galapagos art Space.
Tomie Hahn: Japanese music and dance, Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 p.m., Ellison Dance Studio. The performance is open to the public without charge.
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