The Malonga
Casquelourd Center for the Arts
1428 Alice Street,
Oakland, CA 94612
Wheelchair Accessible
Admission: $10
For tickets: 925.708.0752 / www.companycballet.org
Choreographed and Performed by:
Lisa Bufano and Sonsherée Giles
of AXIS Dance Company
Sound score
created by:
Jerry Smith
Music performed
by:
Jerry Smith and Caroline Penwarden
Costumes: Sonsherée Giles
Wooden Hearts is a dance duet on table leg stilts that recently premiered in December 2007 in Zagreb, Croatia. Read more about this work
The Oakland Dance Festival program includes performances by Moving Arts, Viktor Kabaniaev, Melissa Ullom with cellist Gianna Abondolo, Beth Kaczmarek, Christina Braun, SF Butoh LAB, Abigail Hoesin, ahdanco, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, HerPic Performances, Patricia Banchik, Kinesis, Sheetal Gandhi, Catherine Galasso, Run For Your Life!...it's a dance company!
Wooden Hearts was commissioned in part by AXIS Dance Company, in association with Alliger Arts. Support was provided, in part by CA$H, a grants program of Theatre Bay Area, in partnership with Dancers' Group, and Next Step Orthotics and Prosthetics.