Welcome to the Paul Dresher Ensemble
Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area, dNaga Dance Co., directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma, presents Tastes Like Bitterness, Moves Like Love, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland, July 10-12th, 2025. Join us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co., providing a unique pairing of dance, bites, […]
Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area, dNaga Dance Co., directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma, presents Tastes Like Bitterness, Moves Like Love, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland, July 10-12th, 2025. Join us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co., providing a unique pairing of dance, bites, […]
Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area, dNaga Dance Co., directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma, presents Tastes Like Bitterness, Moves Like Love, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland, July 10-12th, 2025. Join us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co., providing a unique pairing of dance, bites, […]
Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area, dNaga Dance Co., directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma, presents Tastes Like Bitterness, Moves Like Love, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland, July 10-12th, 2025. Join us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co., providing a unique pairing of dance, bites, […]
LISA MEZZACAPPA 5(ISH) Bassist and composer LISA MEZZACAPPA (acoustic bass) brings her newest ensemble to the WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES in advance of its NYC debut at The Stone later this month. Mezzacappa's previous works have drawn inspiration from Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster's lean noir crime novels and Italo Calvino's hilarious and poignant Cosmicomics stories. Now she's […]
With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about, discuss, envision, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book, punctuated and/or interwoven by […]
With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about, discuss, envision, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book, punctuated and/or interwoven by […]
With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about, discuss, envision, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book, punctuated and/or interwoven by […]
With this multidisciplinary interactive performance DEAR Artist e.Franklin provides participants an opportunity to learn about, discuss, envision, and practice individual and collective healing. The experience is intended for an audience of diverse identities and opinions whose choices will guide them through various chapters of the piece, much like a choose-your-own-adventure book, punctuated and/or interwoven by […]
Other Minds presents scenes in workshop from the work-in-progress, I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment, by American composer Joseph Bohigian, Lebanese-Armenian vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian, and the music-technology group Ensemble Decipher. The free workshop performance will take place on Friday, July 25, 2025, at 7:30 pm at the Paul Dresher Ensemble Studio in […]
ERNST KAREL: ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS ERNST KAREL presents his multichannel, ongoing iterative work, Atmospheric Rivers. This piece’s subject is a key component of the global water cycle: the enormous streams of concentrated water vapor which flow through the sky from the tropics towards the poles, releasing heavy rain in high wind, particularly in the western U.S, and […]
Ambient Bird - Shorebird Park (premiere) with sfSOUND, bird ensemble & the dailybell* at sunset musicians: Lulu, african grey parrot Wendy Reid, violin Brenda Hutchinson, long tube Krys Bobrowski, glisglass Aurora Josephson, voice Ron Heglin, tuba David Samas, percussion Kanoko Nishi, koto Ben Davis, cello Matt Ingalls, clarinet Kyle Bruckmann, oboe John Ingle, saxophone […]