Now Touring

Now Touring

Available as solo and ensemble performances

Contact: aokizu@firstvoice.org

“All of First Voice’s work is strong, positive, and in the vanguard of intercultural, multidisciplinary work” 
-John Killacky, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
 
“It was really great to have Brenda and Mark here…They were very generous with our students and the participatory engagement activities were fabulous. And the audiences responded beautifully to the performances”
- Tammey Kitka, Krannert Center for the Arts

Kabuki Cabaret
Haunting dramatic performance by Brenda Wong Aoki with original music by Emmy Award-Winning composer Mark Izu, in a Kabuki Cabaret of traditional Japanese ghost legends. Featuring Grammy nominated multi-percussionist Dr. Anthony Brownnatori koto master Shoko HikageMas Koga Best Latin Jazz flutist 2011, vocalist Moy Eng and Janet Koike with Kathryn Cabunoc on Taiko.

90 minutes.

Mermaid Meat and Other Ghost Stories

The haunting eloquence of Brenda Wong Aoki’s Ghost stories, masterfully performed in concert with Asian Jazz pioneer Mark
Izu

5 Legends: Black Hair,  Soul of the Great Bell, Dancing in California, The Bell of Dojoji, Mermaid Meat

 

Legend of Morning Glory
The haunting love tale, based on a story from the Kabuki, tells of a girl, the daughter of a powerful samurai, who meets and falls in love with a boy from a poor family.

90 minutes

 

All We Leave
Excerpts and Gleanings from Brenda Wong Aoki. Musings about life on and off the road, personal stories and kabuki love legends. Brenda’s dramatic presentations blend tradition, movement, contemporary American life and her own peculiar point of view.

60 minutes

 

Tales of the Pacific Rim
Clad in the traditional kimono of a Japanese itinerant storyteller and using an exquisitely painted fan and her waist length hair as her only prop, Brenda Wong Aoki continues to entrance audiences throughout the world, with her intense, lyrical song/dance/dramas of Asian Pacific folk legends and personal stories.
45-60 minutes

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Email: aokizu @ firstvoice.org

Now Booking Solo, Duet, and Ensemble Performances

Upcoming Events

April 19, 2013 The Music of MU, Public performance, Kanbar Hall Jewish Community Center SF, PLEASE RSVP at arts@jccsf.org

May 5, 2013 , Screening of "Don't Lose Your Soul," a documentary about Mark Izu and fellow Asian jazz pioneer Anthony Brown. Los Angeles. 3 PM, CGV Cinemas 2.

May 18, 2013 The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, Kimochi 42nd Anniversary, Kabuki Theater SF

June 8, 2013 Obake Stories, Japanese Cultural Fair, Santa Cruz

September 27,28,29, 2013: World Premiere of MU , Friend Center for the Arts, Jewish Community Center San Francisco

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October 3rd, 2013 Youth Performance, Krannert Center for the Arts, University of Illinois, 10 AM

October 4th, 2013
10 am: Youth Performance, Krannert Center for the Arts, University of Illinois

7pm: Evening Performance, Krannert Center for the Arts, University of Illinois

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Founded by Brenda Wong Aoki and Mark Izu in 1995, the mission of the non-profit First Voice is to create and develop the stories and music of people living between worlds. Critical to this mission is "personal experience" or "voice" as essential to authentic pan-world culture. Please help support First Voice with a donation.