2013 Body Music Festival Opening: Vertical Dance & Body Music Orchestra | Oakland

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The opening celebration the Sixth International Body Music Festival will feature vertical dance, a body music orchestra and wall projection and more at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, November 5, 2013.

Vertical Dance at The Great Wall of Oakland
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 | 7:30 pm
Broadway and West Grand, Oakland, CA
FREE

Aerial dancers Bandaloop perform to a new score by Body Tjak 13, along with with Corposonic (Oakland), Barbatuques (São Paulo, Brazil), Çudamani (Bali, Indonesia) and other festival artists.

The International Body Music Festival presents over 20 events featuring traditional and contemporary Body Music styles from the U.S., Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey, Canary Islands, Greece, Canada and other popping, stomping, humming corners of the world. This universal resonator—our bodies—and its myriad global sounds ignite audiences with music you can see, dance you can hear. It’s the oldest music on the planet, and it’s brand new.

Photo credit: Hawk & Pigeon

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