NOBUKO MIYAMOTO: A SONG IN MOVEMENT FILM SCREENING
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Nobuko Miyamoto is a Japanese American multidisciplinary dancer, singer, songwriter, choreographer, and community artist who emerged as a key voice in the Asian American movement of the 1970s. Originally a dancer in Hollywood films and Broadway productions, she co-created the landmark 1973 album 'A Grain of Sand' with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, and founded Great Leap in 1978, a community-based performing arts…
Anida Yoeu Ali (b. 1974, Battambang, Cambodia) is an interdisciplinary artist whose works span performance, installation, new media, public encounters, and political agitation. Born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago, she is a first-generation American of mixed Malay, Cham, Khmer, and Thai ancestries who investigates the artistic, spiritual, and political collisions of her diasporic, hybrid identity through…