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Where The River Meets The Sea
Where The River Meets The Sea
An Evening of Sacred Music and Dance
Featuring Two-Time Native American Music Awards Flutist of the Year
Rona Yellow Robe
And performances by
Eddie Madril American Indian Dance
Miriam Peretz Sacred Dance of the Silk Road
Mhealani Uchiyama - Mbira
Hlau KaUaTuahine Ceremonial Hula
The Mhea Uchiyama Center for International Dance presents an evening of sacred music and dance featuring offerings of Native American flute, American Indian dance, mbira of Zimbabwe and ceremonial Hawaiian Hula. The performers for the evening are:
Rona Yellow Robe
Two-time Native American Music Awards Flutist of the Year, Rona Yellow Robe is well-known, having delighted listeners with a combination of beautifully melodic flute playing and singing in her rich, full voice. In the Fall of 2014 and again in 2016, Rona was named the Native American Music Awards Flutist of the Year.
Rona started her Native American Flute journey in 2002 and has been on a musical and spiritual journey ever since. Over the past six years she has played hundreds of events including festivals, art shows, schools, weddings, memorial services, powwows, and holiday celebrations. She has honored military veterans and their families with her music, and has worked in close partnership with Multicare Hospice in Washington State for the past six years. She has begin expanding and honing her skills as a music teacher and workshop facilitator. Find out more about Rona at her website, www.RonaYellowRobe.net
Eddie Madril
Edwardo Madril is a member of the Pascua Yaqui tribe of Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora Mexico. He is an active member of the Native American community and represents his culture as a dancer, singer, teacher, playwright and filmmaker. For the past 20 years, his involvement and commitment to native heritage has provided him with the opportunity to share a wealth of information with diverse communities. He has taught American Indian music at San Francisco State and was a three-year recipient of the California Arts Council Artist-In-Residence grant.
As a dancer and educator, he has performed throughout the western United States, including the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and World Arts Wests arts education program People Like Me. As a playwright and filmmaker, his works have been presented on stage in San Francisco at such venues as The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The Brava Theater. His short films have been accepted and featured in American Indian Film Festivals in San Francisco, Oklahoma and South Dakota since 2004. He has worked on films with other independent film directors and is currently acting in a feature film. He is also working on his first full-length feature film as a writer/director, to be released soon. Eddie works with students to encourage the appreciation of and respect for American Indian dance, music, culture, history, art and sign language. Students learn Native American dances, music and traditional crafts, and the stories behind them.
Miriam Peretz
Miriams love of dance has led her on a life long journey taking her throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. Miriam has studied with master teachers from around the world and done intensives in Tajikistan, Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, and Israel. She studied for three years at the Jerusalem Academy of Oriental Music and Dance where she focused on percussion, music theory, and Central Asian dance.
Living both in the Middle East and the U.S. as well as traveling internationally, has offered Miriam many rich opportunities for cultural collaboration have given her great inspiration to find ways the arts can help build bridges and create respect, love and unity among people of different backgrounds and spiritual traditions. Miriam is the creator and director of the Miriams Well project, an interfaith performance collaboration exploring sacred dance, music, and spirituality from the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish traditions.
Mhealani Uchiyama
Mhealani Uchiyama is an award-winning dancer, musician, composer, choreographer, recording artist, author and teacher. She is from the hula lineage of Kumu Joseph Kamohai Kahulelio. An advocate for cultural understanding, she is the founder and Artistic Director of the Mhea Uchiyama Center for International Dance in Berkeley, California, and is Kumu (teacher/director) of Hlau KaUaTuahine. She has been an instructor of Hawaiian Language at Stanford University, contributed a chapter on the hula for the publication Dancing on the Earth (Leseho and McMaster, 2010) and has authored the Haumna Hula Handbook for Students of Hawaiian Dance (2016). Her CD A Walk by the Sea has been awarded the Hawaii Music Award for Best World Music Album of 2007. She has served on the panel of judges for the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and the Tahiti Fete of San Jose and Hilo. She currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of World Arts West, the producers of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.
Having studied Shona music for over a decade both locally and in Zimbabwe, her work with the mbira has been recognized by the City of Oaklands Cultural Funding Program which is sponsoring her to teach the music and tradition of the mbira to Oakland residents.
Hlau KaUaTuahine
Hlau Ka Ua Tuahine is named after the sister rain of Mnoa Valley, Oahu. Based in Berkeley, California, they have won numerous awards and perform locally and internationally including appearances at the Hollywood Bowl, the World Conference on Hula (Maui, Oahu and Kauai), the King Kamehamha Hula and Chant Competition, Heiva celebrations in Tahiti, French Polynesia, and at Te Papa Tongoarewa, the National Museum of New Zealand, and most recently, the 2016 K Mai Ka Hula Competition of Kahului, Maui where they were awarded 2nd Place.
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LocationMahea Uchiyama Center For International Dance (View)
729 Heinz Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710
United States
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