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AnneKarin Glass
www.AnneKarinGlass.com
“I have spent about six hours per week studying the human figure since 1987. For my gesture paintings, the model assumes a pose for four minutes. I paint these pictures in that span of time. Each painting is a culmination of what I have learned from my constant observation of the figure and from my experience in visually expressing my sensations in response to a model’s four minute pose. When I paint gestures I am learning to focus on my perception, to experience and express my emotional and visceral reaction to that visual input. Painting a model doing gesture poses expands my consciousness in the realms of sight, sensation, and emotion. I do not reflect. I do not consider. I do not judge. I do not anticipate. I am in the moment. I respond—that’s all. “
~AnneKarin Glass
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The human eye flutters open and shut. Light and color weave gently across velveteen surface.
Metaphor takes a turn. An eye dims. Flight sustaining dust falls loose from wings. A pensive cocoon shrouds a very quiet, very patient stasis.
Silken binds fall away and she emerges--taking gentle flight into new meaning and new life.
~ Linda Hughes Bakke
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Gypsy is Love and Positivity personified. Growing up, her musical influences spanned the spectrum from soulful funk and classic rock to world flavors, hip-hop, and disco. Gypsy would thrive on any music with a danceable beat. She recognized very early that Dance brings people joy, and that joy inspires more Dance…
A Singer, Songwriter, Dancer, and Stargazer, Gypsy makes magic wherever she goes. Her exotic energy is enchanting, and her passion for Dance music is contagious. Her performances leave us spellbound with sultry-hot bellydance and disco funk. Come and experience Gypsy Love - you will surely feel the magic too...
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Troupe Tahiya
www.geocities.com/tahiyasf
http://home.comcast.net/~tahiya
Troupe Tahiya performs a unique blend of classical and modern bellydance throughout the Bay Area. The troupe’s Director, Tahiya has been performing the art of bellydancing for over 10 years. She has performed regularly with dance groups in both traditional folklorick and modern caberet middle-eastern style of dance. Her degree in International Relations of the Middle East and her extensive traveling experience in the middle east give her a special and unique understanding, appreciation, and ability to express middle-eastern music. She has won Miss America of the Bellydance 1994 and was also crowned the title of Bellydancer of the Universe 1997. Tahiya has performed regularly at middle-eastern restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she is an esteemed bellydance instructor and Choreographer.
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Catalina Quijano
catcatalinaqu@gmail.com
“Painting to me is a form of physical, emotional and spiritual release. The colors in my work are indicative of mood, just as the brush stroke demonstrates movement. I do not wish to impose meaning and intellectual analysis into these works; that is to come from the viewer. My only wish is to provoke something within the viewer that is solely their own, without interpretation from me. Each piece of art is meant to have its own life, and I hope that the audience enjoys this life as much I do.”
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Arlene Diehl
www.arlenediehl.com
“My work has evolved from a life-long love for, fascination with, and sense of reverence for the human form. After years of working in a slow, layered and meticulous way with colored pencil, I have broken out into a medium and an approach that more immediately and deftly express what I am really after: a sense of life force and the particularity of a living moment. This change in my work has required a huge leap of faith and reflects larger changes in my life.”
~Arlene Diehl
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Yasmina Porter is a Dance Historian who mentors students to achieve their highest potential as artists and world citizens. She has taught and researched dance in Africa, Cuba, Panama, Mexico, England, Jamaica, Spain, and Portugal. Her honors include: The J. William Fulbright Fellowship, a West African Research Association Fellowship, and a University of Wisconsin Latin American Iberian Studies Fellowship. Yasmina has been nominated to the USIS Fulbright Orientation Committee, The UCSC Education Abroad Program Selection Committee, and The Santa Cruz Cultural Council Arts' Grant Selection Committee. Her current work focuses on cross cultural expressions of spiritual unity through dance. This year will be her 3rd annual Dance & Service trip to Ghana, West Africa with college students and parents from the U.S. and Europe.
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