The first Dance Arts Festival and Bazaar took place on June 1, 2024 at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Lawson Road, Kensington, CA 94707. About 60 acts of international dance and poetry with dance were performed to a full house. Please mark your calendar for May 17, 2025, to join us for our 2nd Annual Festival.
Please enjoy the following photos of our 2024 event with members and friends of Tatseena's Serpent Sirens, Artists Embassy International and the Poetic Dance Theater Company.
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| Redwood Empire Chinese Association opened the show with lions danced down the aisles of booths inviting audience to take seats to enjoy the show. In the foreground is the Artists Embassy International/Dancing Poetry booth with tambourines, masks and many other items for sale, relating to poetry and dance. |
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| RECA Lions went onto the stage, drank from a 5 gallon jug, staggared around then passed out drunk as the poem talked about "Let the Celebration Begin!" The Drunken Lion is an ancient, very traditional Chinese Lion Dance. It was a most unusual opening for our show. |
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| Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company performed "The Awe That Dances Poetry." |
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| The Redwood Empire Chinese Association's Adult Cultural Dancers performed a lively Tibetan Sleeve Dance to a contemporary lyric about the beauty of Tibetan landscapes. The poem was translated into English and read by Audrey Odenkirchen |
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| A spectacular performance was given by 8 year old Carter Houston with his grandmother, Loywanner Haddadou flourishing golden wings as Carter circled her in "A Poet's Sunrise" a poem by Richard Angilly. |
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| Takako Miyashita performed an inspiring Ikebana Dance where she created an original flower arrangement as her dance. Takako performed to a poem she wrote, "Wind," read by Natica Angilly |
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| Shantee Baker performed a Tibetan Dance. |
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| Natica's Poetic Dance Theater Company performed to Natica's poem, "Cosmic Assembly." performed to Natica's poem, " |
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| Tatseena, coproducer of the event, performed with her troupe, Serpent Sirens, which included 4 live boa constrictors. |
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| The finale act was Judy Cheung reading her poem, "Welcome to Peace," while the Poetic Dance Theater Company and the audience joined together to celebrate the many ways to find, promote and practice peace with eachother. |
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We want to acknowledge and thank all the additional approximately 50 dance and poetry with dance acts that gave us such a grand afternoon. We are looking forward to many more annual festivals to honor and display international Dance Arts Festival and Bazaar. Please mark your calendars for our 2nd annual Dance Arts Festival and Bazaar on May 17, 2025, at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Berkely, Noon to 7:00 pm, 1 Lawson Rd., Kensington, CA 04707. See you there.
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