Alaine Handa: An artistic voice for third culture kids

Alaine Handa: An artistic voice for third culture kids

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SAVE THE DATES!

A.H. Dance Company will be performing at the 60x60 Festival at the World Financial Center on Nov. 13, 2009 at 12 pm and 7 pm. 60 choreographers & 60 composers are paired at random for 60 seconds of collaboration.

Holiday Fundraiser for this project will be at Stone Creek Bar & Lounge on Dec. 5th, 2009 from 7-10:30 pm. There will be amazing raffle prizes. More details coming up soon!

Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) conference in New York City. A.H. Dance Company will be doing a short segment of this project (Dance & film) at Dance New Amsterdam on Jan. 8, 2010 from 9-9:30 pm

A.H. Dance Company & University Settlement will present this project on May 13-15, 2010.
More details will be added at a later date.

Enjoy the pictures from our performance at the Long Island Pirate Festival in September 2009!

Photography is copyright of Di Zhang (http://www.dizhangphoto.com)

A solo of many layers

Solo #1 from Alaine Handa on Vimeo.

This solo is a mixture of different cultures. Korean traditional dance are mixed into the modern dance vocabulary. The costume that my dancer, Yoonjung Choi will be wearing is a Indonesian inspired Batik wrap around skirt. The spoken word in the music is from David C. Pollock and Ruth Van Reken's book Third Culture Kids. There is also a Swedish poem by Edith Södergran. She is also dancing to French accordian music from the soundtrack of Amelie.

Rehearsal # 4

Rehearsal # 4 from Alaine Handa on Vimeo.

Here's a short section for "Memories Revisited" that we've been working on... we'll see what it will evolve into.
Dancers in this video Anna Louise Herzog, Emily Mercer, Ivilisse Esguerra

If the World Were a Village

Rehearsal # 2

This is a very rough idea that we created in our second rehearsal.
The two dancers in this video are Emily Mercer and Anna Louise Herzog. We ended up creating this short little duet after writing reflections after reading two poems by TCKs and quotes from TCKs.

Rehearsal # 2 from Alaine Handa on Vimeo.