Translations with Shaw Pong Liu

Translations, Shaw Pong’s major project this summer took her ongoing solo exploration of birdsong, “A Bird a Day” and opened it up exponentially as a collaboration with choreographer Rodney Veal, seventeen professional and local dancers and musicians, and seven Blue Sky youth participant crew members, with the counsel of two local naturalists/birders. Together they created a large-scale, site-specific performance of music and movement inspired by nature and birdsong, with performers interspersed throughout idyllic Aullwood Garden MetroPark in Englewood.

Musicians:

• Michael Bale, Viola (Kettering High School)

• Audrey Hebson, Cello (Cedarville University)

• Wenbi Hirakawa, Violin (Free-lance musician)

• Megan Kramer, Violin (Kettering High School)

• Kristen Mancini, Violin (OSU, Blue Sky Student Artist, 2010)

• Aurelian Oprea, Violin (Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra)

• Chris Shea, Singing Bowls (Free Shakespeare)

• Philip Titlebaum, Percussion (University of Dayton)

Dancers:

• Timothy Barker (BGSU, Blue Sky Youth Participant, 2009)

• Alise Craig (Dayton Contemporary Dance Company)

• Jasmine Marlow (Sinclair Comm. College, “Of a River” Collaborator, 2010)

• Kirsten Fricker (Freelance dancer)

• Quiterie Gianina-Gabrielle (Freelance dancer and instructor)

• Sara Mitchell Sherman (Blue Sky Resident Artist, 2011)

• Rodney Veal (Dayton, Blue Sky Resident Artist, 2009)

Crew:

•DeNarrow Brown

• Grace Deal

• Robin Ann Herner

• Lesley Johnson

• Nigel Lam

• David Rodriguez

• Michael Trappe

Naturalists:

• Tom Hissong

• Chris Rowlands