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The Gilded Serpent
presents...
Shuvani:
Music and Dance inspired by
the Roma "Gypsy" Trail
Saturday, February 21, 2004
Cafe de la Paz, Berkeley, CA
Photos by Jan Dvorak
Captions
and Photos provided by
Amy Luna Manderino
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Shuvani
invokes the Goddess Tara singing her mantra and dancing
with diyas (devotional oil lamps)
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Amy
Luna Manderino performs ecstatic Kalbeliya dance
from Northern India |
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Performing
Sapera dance from Rajasthan, Amy Luna Manderino
twirls in
a traditional costume of ornate embroidery and intricate
beadwork.
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Hannah
Romanowsky lights up the stage with Rom dance from
Turkey
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Miriam
Peretz performs an elegant shawl dance from Spain |
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Holly
Shaw delights with her rhythmic footwork in an
Alegrias from Spain |
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Holly
Shaw and Miriam Peretz join for
a vibrant tango from Spain |
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Shuvani
together in a choreography using Ghawazee and Saiidi
styling.
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Holly
Shaw performs a traditional cane dance |
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Hannah
Romanowsky
performs balancing a tray |
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Miram
Peretz in a finger cymbal dance |
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Amy
Luna Manderino's show stopping flaming sword while
dancing on wine glasses |
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"Thank
you so much. Our gratitude, enormous heart feeling. Great
and respectively
sensitive cultural event."
-
Šani Rifati and Carol Bloom (Shuvani's Guests of Honor
and founders of Voice of Roma)
www.shuvani.com
Artistic Director: Amy Luna Manderino
Music Director: Tim Rayborn
Vocalist: Rosa Rojas
Dancers: Amy Luna Manderino, Hannah Romanowsky, Holly Shaw,
Miriam Peretz
Musicians: Tim Rayborn, Tim Bolling, Briana Waters, James
MacColl
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