Conference of the Birds

Conference of the Birds is an interdisciplinary movement-based dramatic work exploring themes of travel and migration from source material collected from the Muslim, immigrant, refugee and dance communities. This tumblr invites you inside the creation of this major new work, and is a process document from the artists and producers. Commissioned by Boston Center for the Arts, created by ANIKAYA Dance Theater, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Jacob's Pillow, New England Foundation for the Arts, The Boston Foundation, and the James K. Spriggs Charitable Foundation, a Fidelity Charitable donor-advised fund, and the Kates Foundation. www.bcaonline.org

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Performance week!

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Moments from the workshop with Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center.

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Performance programs translated into Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic

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Lobby Exhibition

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Lobby Exhibition featuring stories, drawings, poetry, moments of Story-telling and Movement workshops with Ascentria Care Alliance, Jacob’s Pillow, Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. 

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Dissolving into one: ANIKAYA Dance Theater's 'Conference of the Birds'

Dance Informa reviews ANIKAYA Dance Theater's production of 'Conference of the Birds', a movement theater work, at Boston Center for the Arts.

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Performances on Conference of the Birds created by ANIKAYA Dance Theater, commissioned by Boston Center for the Arts

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Sarveshan bird

This is "Sarveshan bird" by Wendy Jehlen on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

BIRD - SARVESHAN - INDIA

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Bird Project

BIRD - DANANG - INDONESIA

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Luciane bird 3

This is "Luciane bird 3" by Wendy Jehlen on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

BIRD - LUCIANE - BRAZIL

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Impro on brush Multicorps_Marcel Gbeffa DANSE BENIN

This is "Impro on brush Multicorps_Marcel Gbeffa DANSE BENIN" by Gbeffa Marcel on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

BIRD - MARCEL - BENIN

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Wendy bird

This is "Wendy bird" by Wendy Jehlen on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

BIRD - WENDY - UNITED STATES

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Story and drawing from Story collection and Movement workshop

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Drawing from Story Collecting and Movement Workshop

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Moments of writing from Story Collecting and Movement workshop at Jacob’s Pillow. 

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Story collecting and movement workshop with ANIKAYA at Jacob’s Pillow

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Filming excerpts of the Conference of the Birds at the BCA with the fabulous Ernie Galan!