2002 Programme for the Pandaville Art Festival

China moon celebration

Programme 2002

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

3:00-4:00 Great Leap - PBS documentary

It is not today's China, but the people remember: Mao Zhedong, "takeover" of 1949, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Red Guards, Tiananmen Square. Until Mao died in 1976, Communism's fanatical experiment swept the country, leading to a societal longing for normalcy.

An interviewee in the film - and survivor of the tumultuous times - Shao Ailing will be present to have a conversation with you.

5:00-6:00 Chinese Song Performance & Chinese 'TaiJi' Demo

Part of Uncle Yao's Chorus (10 female singers) from New York City, led by prominent Maestro Xueyan Yao, will perform 4 pieces in the elaborate form of both Chinese traditional and modern folksongs. Xiaoping Yao, daughter of Maestro Yao and resident of Shandaken, will sing as soloist two additional songs.

Besides his achievement as conductor in the China Central Opera House for over 30 years, Maestro Yao was a visiting scholar at Harvard and Stanford Universities, lecturing on Chinese music at nearly 20 universities in the United States. He is also the author of two books: "Thirty Years of New China's Musical" and "Lecture Briefs on Chinese Traditional Music". You will hear his firsthand introduction of all the songs.

TaiJi master Peiping Wang, first class TaiJi coach from Beijing, now teaches Chinese TaiJi both in New York City and Long Island will give TaiJi Quan and TaiJi Sword demo. Her persistent classical study and training won her a Championship of the National TaiJi League.

6:30-8:00 Postmen in the Mountains - 1998

Chinese film provided by China Century Entertainment, Inc., www.prcmovie.com

An award winning film, and a top box-office grosser in Japan last year. Directed by Huo Jianqi and starring Teng Rujun and Liu Ye. This is a magnificently photographed and sensitively acted film; it is a story of a man who hands his life's work over to his son. Although it takes place in the rural mountains of Hunan, China, the story is both age-old and contemporary: the communication between father and son is conveyed on a mountain path, where we meet the various townsfolk, with connection and rediscovery.

8:30-10:30 A Sigh - 2000

Chinese film provided by China Century Entertainment, Inc., www.prcmovie.com

What does a happily married man do when a beautiful young woman comes into his life? He has a successful job, happy family, and a woman who loves him but everything is questioned when temptation walks in. He is caught in a love triangle, allowing us to develop deeply into the moral and cultural dichotomy facing China today. This exquisite story is sensitively directed and magnificently shot! A must see!

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

4:00-5:00 Betty MacDonald & Friends

Featuring Jim Curtin on bass & Peter Einhorn on guitar. Betty glides from modern songs to standards and mixes in her own compositions. For 16 years she turned into an air personality at WDST. Her studio guests included Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Pat Metheny and Dizzie Gillespie. As a music teacher, Betty "has a lot of students, and I'm introducing them to improvisation "my jazz philosophy carries over into my classical teaching and the teaching of violin technique. Young people like that, and it works well, rings true for them."

5:00-6:00 Multimedia Extravaganza

Pandaville features the computer animation work of Isaac Abrams. This interactive ambient vision stream has been featured at numerous raves and art/music events throughout the New York area. Consisting of multiple tape sources cross edited through a specially constructed switcher with special appearances by legendary VJs RNA (Raphael Abrams) & DNA ( Damian Abrams) we will spontaneously coordinate with live music for a one time only experience. Warning: this program feature may be blended with others...pay close attention!

6:30-8:00 Dewey Decibel

Dewey Decibal

Dewey Decibel is a Brooklyn insomniac whose group, it's been said, is a band with the trajectory of a cheese sandwich (ready for consumption, that is)! Generally good for raising lost souls out of pergatory, their songs are a traffic jam of rock/pop influences - sometimes romping, sometimes barely audible, but always great fun. Dewey Decibel is: Martin Miller on drums, Jon Howard on bass & backing vocals, and Dewey on that crazy backwards guitar & IV

8:30-10:00 Kaaterskill Falls - 2000

Produced & Directed by Josh Apter & Peter Olsen, Whiskey Outpost, Lofti Pictures

A young urban couple's marriage crumbles when, on a weekend vacation in the Catskills, they pick up and befriend a mysterious hitchhiker. "Kaaterskill Falls," a character-driven thriller, shows to what extremes ordinary people will go when pushed to the edge.

Shot in thirteen days, with little money and a two-person crew, "Kaaterskill Falls" was completely improvised by its actors and only loosely structured on paper by its directors.

"Kaaterskill Falls" is the first feature-length collaboration between Josh Apter and Peter Olsen, recipients of the IFP North/Minnesota Independent Film Fund's $25,000 development grant, and award-winning alumni of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program.

PROGRAMME 2005

SATURDAY,

FEBRUARY 19

SPRING & FALL

PROGRAMME 2004

SUNDAY,

FEBRUARY 22

SPONSORED IN PART BY:

"The New York Council for the Humanities" a State program of the National Endowments for the Arts"

PROGRAMME 2003