Top row from left: Cody Marquez, Asia Noriega, Sierra Richey, Katerina Adams, Jenny DeBouzek; middle row: Tessie Greenfield, Victor Montoya, Marieli Archibeque, Catalina Gonzales, Ciaira Mathews; bottom row: Melody Sanchez, Maryna Mathews, Juliana Gorena and Jaden Titus.
Good job, dancers and musicians!!!
The participants of the 2-week workshop on Ethnic Music and Dances from Southern Philippines concluded on July 2, 2010, Friday with a performance at the Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center. During this workshop (which totaled to 10 hours), the participants learned about two music/dances: warrior and janggay dances and Philippine history. Instructors were Tessie Greenfield (far left) for dance and Philippine history and Jenny DeBouzek (far right) for music. Click on instructors to learn more about Jenny and Tessie. To learn more about the music and dances, click kulintang.
To view performances on YouTube.com, click here: warrior dance or janggay dance.
This is a project of the New Mexico Asian Family Center and United Way in cooperation with the Manzano Mesa Multigenerational Center through the Summer Program coordinator, Angelina Poulin. The goals were to educate school children about Asian countries (like the Philippines) through music/dances and history and to help them develop self-esteem by performing in front of an audience.
Congratulations to our puppeteers, Kevin Liou, My-Anh Nguyen, Aimie and Emma Ye for winning the 2010 "Talk Back to Big Tobacco! Script and TV Storyboard Contest." They are all past and present puppeteers of the NM Asian Family Center Youth Performance Group.
My-Anh, Aimie & Emma won the storyboard category with a display centered on the top five causes of death in the nation with tobacco usage as No. 1.
Kevin won the radio spot category "Smokey Future" featuring a fortune teller predicting a smoker's health.
Their work will be produced sometime this year. We'll keep you posted!
The contest was sponsored by the New Mexico Literacy Project.
Emma Ye
(far right in photo), one of our puppeteers received the Asian American
Outstanding Youth Award on May 8, 2010 from Ligaya White, chairperson
of Federal Asian Pacific American Council (FAPAC), one of the sponsors
of the award. Emma will receive a monetary award on May 16 at the
Asian Festival of Culture sponsored by the Asian American Assn. of NM.
Two other Asian youth awardees were: Kristi Mishra (Indian)
and Francis Ong (Filipino).Kidstale-nm.com
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Tessie Greenfield, Kidstale puppeteer & Kulintang musician is shown performing a kulintang piece at the St. Joseph Technology Institute Christmas Party for students & teachers in Butuan City, Agusan, Philippines, Dec. 2007Updated: 07/04/10