October 8 – 9, 2016 (Saturday – Sunday)
Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center
1060 River St,
Santa Cruz, California 95060
The festival expands to include music and food from
around the world, complementing the incredible line-up of local and
international dance companies set to take the stage.
The festival includes FREE outdoor performances on
Saturday, October 8th between 11AM and 4PM and then moves to a special ticketed
EVENING performance inside the new Colligan Theater at 7:30pm featuring Antara
Bhardwaj, Oumou Faye, John and Nancy Lingemann and Susana Pedroso.
Saturday, October 8th — Performance Schedule
11:00 Opening Ceremony by the White Hawk Indian
Council/Ixtatutli
11:30 Seabright Morris performs English Morris Dance
11:45 Kuhai Halau o Mehana Pa ‘Olapa Kahiko perform Hula
Kahiko
12:00 Kolo Sisters perform Serbian Folk Dance
12:15 Raffle
12:30 Persephone Dance Company performs American Tribal
Style Belly Dance
12:45 Hula School of Santa Cruz performs Hula ‘Auana
1:00 UCSC Bollwood Dance Troupe
1:15 Raffle
1:30 Hala Dance Company perform authentic Egyptian Belly
Dance
1:45 Vive Oaxaca / Senderos perform Baile Folklorico from
Oaxaca, Mexico
2:00 Gamelan Artha Negara performs Jauk, Balinese Masked
Dance
2:15 Desert Dream Dance Company perform modern fusion
belly dance with an "old-world" flare
2:30 Shakti Bhakti performs Odissi Classical Indian Dance
2:40 Burevisnyky perform Ukrainian Folk Dance
2:50 Corazon en Flor perform Baile Folklorico from
Jalisco, Mexico
3:00 Gina Garcia presents WorldDanz
3:15 Suciawani Balinese Dance performs Baris, Balinese
Warrior Dance
3:30 Agua Doce performs Afro-Brazilian Contemporary Dance
3:45 Raizes do Brasil performs Maculele
Sunday October 9th - Class Schedule
World Arts Festival Classes are FREE and open to all
ages, genders and abilities.
9:00am Salsa Workout with Cesario Ruiz
10:00am Beginning African Dance with Deb Voisin
11:00am Balinese Dance with Luh Andarawati
12:00pm Cambodian Dance with The Cambodian Cultural Dance
Troupe of San Jose
1:00pm Oaxacan Dance with Jenny Robles
2:00pm WorldDanz with Gina Garcia
3:00pm Morris Dance with Seabright Morris
4:00pm Afro-Brazilian Contemporary Dance with Stephanie
Engel of Agua Doce Dance
Cost: Free
