Japanese Fusion Event

Linda Galloway, PhD., an internationally established poet, will perform some of her tanka, Japan's most beloved short verse, and play the hamohn, an individually artisan crafted, cast iron percussion instrument. Don McLeod will perform his newest butoh work, a dance form created out of the existential despair in post-war Japan. Don is an internationally celebrated movement artist, who studied in Japan and under Marcel Marceau in France. Karl Young, acclaimed Bay Area musician, will accompany Don and Linda on traditional wooden Japanese flutes. Karl will play a range of music from a Buddhist elegy to jazz improv on these ancient instruments. The stage will be adorned only with an art installation of a lone Japanese pine, characteristic of the spartan, minimalist nature of the Japanese Noh theatre. The canvas was recently commissioned with a local Los Angeles painter.