Unique Cultural Collaboration Fuses Taiwanese and African American, Music, Dance, and Heritage!
Grammy Nominated Taiwanese Composer Chihsuan Yang and Jefferson Award for Public Service to America,Â
celebrated African American Composer, Director, andÂ
Choreographer Sean McLeod; collaborate on a cross cultural work fusing their cultural music and heritage. Made possible by New Music USA and supported by the National Parks Arts Foundation and their support of what’s creatively next in music and dance. This new work expands concepts of culture, heritage, and what aspects define one another.
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Generation to generation our backgrounds are different. Combining Asian inspiration through the erhu, violin, and electronic compositions of Chihsuan Yang and the Negro Spiritual, Classical, Urban motifs composed by Sean McLeod, the direction and choreographic voicing of McLeod Technique, unlocks an ability for audiences to consider more and share togetherness found in foreign places of this new work.









