Esmé Olivia & Chris Berry in Concert
March 17th
5:30pm - 6:30pm PT . 6:30pm-7:30pm MT . 7:30pm - 8:30pm CT . 8:30pm-9:30pm ET
ABOUT THIS CONCERT
Chris Berry and Esmé Olivia in concert, presented by the Panjea Foundation and Dancing Earth, on the world wide web, March 17, 2022. Two voices wing a bird of harmony. Spiral rhythms create a bridge for nourishment from other realms to flow into the density of the physical. For those who’d like to move, Esmé will share invitations to embody elemental and archetypal qualities. The prayerformance will also involve Esmé’s live dance in a soundscape sown with Chris’s voice and mbira.
The mbira is an instrument that the Shona people of Zimbabwe crafted with metal, wood and deep listening to share the sounds of water in rhythmic equations that delight many in realms unseen and that have brought rain to drought-stricken places, earthly and emotional, when played by Chris Berry’s hands. His familiarity with the technologies of music is wizardly.
Chris Berry grew up in California and followed the sound of the mbira and drum to Zimbabwe, the Congo, Central African Republic, and many other places in the land known as Africa, where he resided for over a decade. He has toured around the world. Esmé grew up in Tiwa land in New Mexico to a Mexican mother and Dutch-Jewish father. She has been a dancer, musician and poet with Dancing Earth since 2017. Esmé and Chris now live between Hawai’i and Tewa/Apache/Ute lands in NM.
Chris' newest release can be found here. Esme's music can be found linked via her wordpress.
We look forward to sharing fresh original songs, many of which offer opportunities for the listening to sing out as well. We hope our offering will easefully invite joy to flow through each in attendance as a river of light, and shed upon the world.
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ABOUT DANCING EARTH
DANCING EARTH CREATIONS dynamically activates our mission, to create contemporary dance and related arts through global indigenous and intercultural relationships centered in ecological and cultural diversity for creativity, health, and wellness.
“We gather as individual artists to create experimental yet elemental dances that reflect our rich cultural heritage as contemporary global peoples. We strive to embody the unique essences of cultural perspectives by creation and renewal of artistic and cultural movement rituals. Ancient and futuristic, our dances are an elemental language of bone and blood memory in motion.” - Founding Director, Rulan Tangen