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Beautiful Struggle (Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project)
"They make you want to move, twitch your hips, dance as freely as if no one were around to see." -Neal Buccino, The Press, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Beautiful Struggle is a new contemporary physical dance theatre piece from Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project that blends live music (guitar, kora, drums), postmodern dance, hip hop and contemporary African dance. This intriguing work explores the intersection of race, gender, class and nationality and like much of contemporary dance today uses media images to explore powerful ideas.
Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project brings an international collective of dance performers, visual artists, and composers to their weeklong residency at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Their Friday, July 15 performance is part of the Celebrate East Liberty Summer Series at the theater. Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project will perform Beautiful Struggle at the 2011 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival on July 20.
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Esther M. Baker-Tarpaga is an assistant professor at the Ohio State University Department of dance. She is co-founder and co-director of Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project, which has performed and taught classes in the USA, Botswana, Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Senegal and South Korea. Recent works include: Los Angeles premieres of Dar Es Salaam at the Alex Theatre, Sira Kan/On the Road at the REDCAT NOW Festival and VSA N4th Wild Dance West Festival in New Mexico, and Disorder Inside Order at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater.
Olivier Tarpaga is a choreographer, dancer, musician and storyteller originally from Burkina Faso. At the age of fourteen he was selected as an actor and dancer for Burkina Faso's acclaimed company Le Bourgeon du Burkina, which performed at numerous festivals and theaters throughout Africa, Europe, and South America. He has collaborated with choreographers such as: David Rousseve, Christian Canciani, Germaine Acogny, Ousseni Sako, Brett Raphael and Lacina Coulibaly. He has also collaborated as a musician with recording artists Poe Ball, Laura Wolfe, Amadou Kienou, Keba Cissoko, Sylvain Leroux, Martin Fernandez, George Ouedraogo and Les Merveilles de Guinée. Olivier is a dance faculty at UCLA's World Arts & Cultures Department where he is developing a teaching method called "Movement Transformation Technique."
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LocationKelly Strayhorn Theater
5941 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
United States
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