STAGE DANCE

Le Jazz Hot - Concert

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

February 11, 2012

Le Jazz Hot, the quartet version of internationally recognized Le Hot Club of San Francisco, will perform a Valentine’s weekend concert of Django Reinhart-style Gypsy jazz. Band leader Paul Mehling grew up locally in Santa Clara, but worked as a street musician in Paris learning techniques from real Gypsies before returning to the Bay Area to launch a revival of jazz manouche with his group.

Patterned after Reinhart’s famed Hot Club de France, the group’s style

San Jose Taiko

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

March 24, 2012

With its iconic “fat drums,” San Jose Taiko is easily one of the South Bay’s most recognizable and popular cultural arts organizations, wowing audiences since 1973. This internationally recognized group fills the theater with sound, color and physicality in a spectacular show of drumming and dance. Renowned for a uniquely sansei, or third generation Japanese-American, style, San Jose Taiko blends ancient Japanese rhythms and movement with African, Balinese, Brazilian, Latin

Likha Pilipino Folk Ensemble Performance

Presented by City of Sunnyvale - Community Services Department at Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

April 14, 2012

The season finale of this Sunnyvale performance series features the dynamic Likha Pilipino Folk Ensemble, celebrating its 20th season preserving and promoting the unique Pilipino dances, music, costumes and customs. More than 7,000 tropical islands that comprise the Philippines, where Eastern, Western and indigenous tribal traditions converge to create one of the most culturally-rich climates on the planet.

The San Francisco-based group is dedicated to giving Filipino-Americans a