All this week LA STAGE Times will present coverage of the 3rd Annual National Asian American Theater Conference and Festival via daily vlogs from Krystal Banzon, a first generation Filipina American who is an emerging theater director. To read her previous posts on the conference, click here.
The National Asian American Theater Festival got off to a great start last night! I saw the two shows at Inner City Arts. At 7 pm, a diverse trio of performances, Denise Uyehara’s Archipelago: Islands of Land, Water and Legend, Kennedy Kabasares and Traci Kato-Kiriyama, in Pull, and Navarasa Dance Theater’s Encounter. At 9 pm was RasaNova Theater’s production of Dancing on Glass. All the pieces were so different, and it was exciting to see the incredible diversity of work and perspectives and form that is a part of the landscape of Asian American theater. The evening ranged from multimedia work and aerial trapeze, to indigenous forms of dance/theater, and a narrative piece about technology, globalization, and human connection. With a first festival day this dynamic, I am greatly looking forward to seeing the rest of the shows this weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/user/NationalAATF#p/a/u/0/Mxh2DO1PVJ0
