World Music & Dance Concert

Brother(hood) Dance!

A 2020 Bessies Honoree of the NY Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies for Afro/Solo/Man. They are an interdisciplinary duo that seeks to inform its audiences on the socio-political and environmental injustices from a global perspective, bringing clarity to the same-gender-loving African American experience in the 21st century. Brother(hood) Dance! was formed in April 2014 as a duo that researches, creates, and performs dances of freedom by Orlando Zane Hunter, Jr. and Ricarrdo Valentine. We have performed our works at Five Myles, Center for Performance Research, B.A.A.D! (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance), VCU-The Grace Street Theater, DraftWork at St. Mark's Church, JACK, Movement Research at Judson Church, Colby College, Denmark Arts Center, Universidad de las Américas Puebla/Performática(MX), Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán/Viso Festival (MX), Jean-René Del Solins Institute (HT) and other venues. They are both MFA in Dance graduates from The Ohio State University integrating Agriculture and Technology.

Dr. Chan E. Park, Pansori

Dr. Chan E. Park is Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures. She founded the Korean Performance Research Program at Ohio State University and hosted the Annual Korean Wind and Stream performance event until her retirement in 2021. She researches and performs Korean musical traditions, focusing on pansori within a broader dramatic context. She authored Voices from the Straw Mat: Toward an Ethnography of Korean Story Singing (University of Hawaii Press, 2003), a 5-volume Songs of Thorns and Flowers: Bilingual Performance and Discourse on Modern Korean Poetry Series (Foreign Language Publications, 2010-2015), and Korean Pansori as Voice Theatre: History, Theory, Practice (Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023). Park seeks efficient ways to present the ancient literacy of pansori to her English-speaking audience, using bilingual pansori with translation subtitles. She has premiered new pansori either solo or in collaboration, including: Centennial Pansori: In 1903, Pak Hungbo Went to Hawai’i (2003); When Tiger Smoked His Pipe (with Honolulu Theater for Youth, 2003); Shim Chong: A Korean Folktale (with California State University Northridge Theater Department, 2003); Alaskan Pansori: Klanott and the Land Otter People (with Stefan Hakenberg, 2005); Pak Hungbo Went to Almaty (2007); Fox Hunt and the Death of a Queen (with Kathy Foley, 2012); Look & Listen: Asian Art and Music (with the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, February 18, 2021).