Walks Leaders

 

 

Leese Walker
Walk: Elevated Soundscapes

Leese Walker is the Artistic/Producing Director of the Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble, comprised of world-class musicians, dancers, visual artists and actors. She founded the theatre in 1997 to create politically-charged, original works that address socially relevant issues. In 1996, Walter Thompson invited Leese to join the Walter Thompson Orchestra as the first actor and to help adapt Soundpainting, the live-composing sign language, for theater. Leese freelances as a teaching-artist with BAM, WNYC and Roundabout Theatre Company. She served on the board of directors for the Network of Ensemble Theatres from 2003-2008. Check out Leese's Create Culture profile here.
Photo: Kristen Hoebermann 

 

 

Dates & Times for "Elevated Soundscapes":
Friday, August 5, 7pm; Saturday, August 6, 7pm; Sunday, August 7, 8am & 7pm

 

 

 

Walk: A Conversation with Nature

Kaoru Watanabe, a former member of the Japanese taiko ensemble Kodo, is a practitioner of various Japanese traverse bamboo flutes, the taiko drum as well as Western flute. His music can be best described as an ever shifting blend of the folk and classical traditions of Japan with contemporary improvisational and experimental music. Recent projects have taken him across the US, Canada, Japan, Mongolia, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Honduras. Kaoru teaches taiko and Japanese music at Princeton University, Colby College and Wesleyan University as well as his own school in Brooklyn, the Kaoru Watanabe Taiko Center. Check out Kaoru's Create Culture profile here.

Photo: George Hirose