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Rakkasah East 2010

Presenting poetry and dance as a unified art form

For the official winners list, please double click on the tab "DPF 2009 Winners and Festiv
16th Annual Dancing Poetry Festival, 2009
September 26. 2009, Noon to 4:00 p.m.
At the California Palace of the Legion of Honor’s Florence Gould Theater
In Lincoln Park, San Francisco, California
Produced by Artists Embassy International
Hosted by Natica Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company
 

The dancing poetry Festival is created by Natica Angilly to promote poetry and dance as a unified art form. Each year, poets and dancers join together to present a glorious exhibition of creativity “from the page to the stage.”

 

The festival is steered by the Dancing Poetry Contest. Poets from around the world submit poems to be selected for the Festival. Three are chosen as Grand Prizes and are danced on stage. Forty or more additional poems are chosen as first, second and third prize poems to be read at the podium if the poet is present or sends a representative. During the year, dance troupes submit dance proposals, including text to their poem. Ten or more are then selected to offer a dazzling and  internationally varied afternoon of excitement and entertainment.

 This year’s contest received 476 poems from 166 poets living in 28 states and 7 additional countries.  For the winners list, please click on the tab 2009 Winners & Festival.

Photos by Judy Hardin Cheung
Videographer for Grand Prize Winners and AEI archives by Arthur Levinson
 

The Master of Ceremonies for our entire show was

the ever changing, always dazzling, sincerely amazing


Raoul Epling

 

assisted by the multitalented Judy Hardin Cheung

 


Elsie Feliz
Raoul chats with prize winning poet Elsie Feliz
Raoul Epling
Raoul Epling
Judy Hardin Cheung
Judy Hardin Cheung assisted Raoul in officiating during the festival (photo by Ann Schleeter)
Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company
opens with Poets of the Call

Poem written and read by Richard Angilly

Ronda Hollie
Ronda Hollie of Natic Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company heralds in the afternoon festivities with a clarion trumpet fanfare


Mimi Janislowski's
Way of the Dance
Bharata Natyam Dance
Poem by Kabir, read by Jacob Picheny

Way of the Dance
Way of the Dance pefromed spectacular Hindu Bharata Natyam Dance as they have since 1972
Andrea Sendek
Andrea Sendec was breathtaking in "Way of the Dance"
Rosalyn Salters
Perfection in form and beauty was offered by Rosalyn Salters of Way of the Dance


Dancers of the Pharoahs
Artistic Director, Shukriya (Shirley) DeVine
is also artistic director of Rakkasah Middle Eastern Dance Festival and Bazaar

Poem, Come Come Along written and read by Richard Angilly

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Richard Angilly reads the poem for the Dancers of the Pharoahs "Come Come Along" written by Richard Angilly
Amala, Vera Reardon
Amala, Vera Reardon, dances sublimely
Natica Angilly, twirls in the midst of floating veil fans
Tuju Taksu


Our sincerest apologies to Tuju Taksu with their performance of Poems of Love & Awakening for which there are no photos at this time due to a camara malfunction.




Claire J. Baker gives a tribute to Berkeley Poet Martha Bosworth for her creation of the Sliding Five poetry form

Claire J. Baker, poet from Pinole, CA, described Martha Bosworth's "Sliding Five" poetry form. She then read a sample of Martha's and of her own. Martha Bosworth could not attend due to illness.


Solaris
A Suite of Allegories
Written, read, directed, composed and choreographed
by Dr. Beth Mehocic, UNLV

Dr. Beth Mehocic, UNLV
Dr. Beth Mehocic of UNLV gives a solo jazz percussion accompaniment to "A Suite of Allegories" series of poems which she wrote
Dr. Beth Mehocic
A new twist on the spider and the fly
Then there were those pesty ants who didn't like one of their own, so they killed her
Allegory generally has a kick
If you don't pay attention, allegory can knock you down flat
First act Prize Winning Poets

Apologies to Marie Ross, Stockton, CA, with her Pink Toed Shoes
there are no photos due to a camara malfunction

Susan Morgan Black
Susan Morgan Black, Oakland, CA, read her prize winning "Drualus--Mistletoe"
Don Feliz
Don Feliz, Sacreamento, CA, reads his prize winning poem "Haircuts With My Father"
Elsie Whitlow Feliz
Elsie Whitlow Feliz reads her prize winning poem, "Gallivanting With My Aunts
Steve Persell, Ada Evasdaughter
Steve Persell read The Beauty of Motion for prize winner Ada Evasdaughter, Raleigh, North Carolina

Grand Prize Winning Poem
Eve Dreaming by Nancy Rakoczy, Flushing, New York
Read during the dance by Natica Angilly
for text of the poem and additional photos, click on the tab Eve Dreaming


Nancy Rakoczy
"I see Eve dreaming/ on a moonless night/ caressed and held by a tree that tangles dreams and green/ thoughts..."
Nancy Rakoczy
"...A curved green stalk grows from her heart, as she lies dreaming..."
Nancy Rakoczy, Flushing, NY, takes a bow on stage with the dancers
United Poets Laureate International
presents Laurel crowns the members of
Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company
who have travelled internationally with UPLI
promoting brotherhood and understanding
Presenting the awards is UPLI President Benjamin R. Yuzon

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Arthur Levinson, Dean Foss
Arthur Levinson and Dean Foss offer chalices of light for the ceramonious "Dance of the Chalices" which opened the awards ceremony
"Dance of the Chalices" toasts the world with light, performed by Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Comany with poem written and read by Richard Angilly
Benjamin R. Yuzon
President of UPLI Benjamin R. Yuzon gave a few words about the contributions of Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company towards world brotherhood and understanding before presenting the crowns.
Each of ten members of NAPDTC's extended touring troupe received gold crown a Muse/Ambassadores of Dancing Poetry and Poetic Dancers of the World



Redwood Empire Chinese Association
Teen Cultural Dancers
"Happiness Road" by Yuen Chiu,
translated by Nancy Wang and Judy Hardin Cheung
read by Nancy Wang and Joe Wang in English
performed by David Chung in Chinese
Choreographer and instructor Xiaou Qing Sullivan 
assisted by Judy Elliott and Nancy Wang

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Joe Wang, Nancy Wang
Joe Wang and Nancy Wang read the poem in English
Jasmine Elliott, Emily Mangus, Kiana Sherwood, Meesha Haydon, Savanah Haydon
"Ah! It looks like giant dragons coming over the mountain, one after another"
Yuen Chiu poem
"Amazing Happiness Road brings you to our skies"
Jasmine Elliott, Emily Mangus, Kiana Sherwood, Meesha Haydon, Savanah Haydon
"Our good life can now spread to the world"
Gypsy Krackers
with Ann Bailey and Lisa Rie
Delta Watershed Series--Earth

Gypsy Krackers
Gypsy Krackers emotionally dance the vertues of an onion harvest
Gypsy Kreackers, Delta Watershed Series--Earth
We should leap for joy because of the produce of the Delta's earth
Planting to harvest to replanting the onion, from the earth, has much to offer the Delta Community and the world

Grand Prize Winner, Silver Sandals
By Gretchen Fletcher, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

For text of poem and more photos,
   click on tab "Silver Sandals"


"I could sashay to a chivaree,/ my heels casting up sparks"
Sarahanne Lum, Sara Ann Lum
I could fly in these, too--/I bet--or do other silly things;"
Gretchen Fletcher
"Magic shoes, these/silly silver sandals"

 

Tatseena and the Good Vibrations
Around and Around

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Tatseena, Good Vibrations
Tatseena reads while her dancers dance
Umbrellas and shadows offer intreguing visual effects
Up, down, all around
Second Act Poets

Again, apologies for no photos of
Barbara Jaekel, Lincoln, CA, with Ki Ho'Alu
Judy Hardin Cheung reading for Zanneta Kalyva-Papaloannou, Hilioupolis, Athens, Greece with The Mountain is Cloudy
Laverne Frith, Sacramento CA, with Cloud Rhythms,Lenticular
Ruth Wildes Schuler, Novato, CA, with The Perfect Storm

Carol Frith
Carol Frith, Sacramento, CA, with "New Mexico Rains"
John Rowe
John Rowe, Albany, CA, "This Spring (a pantoum)"
Tanya Joyce
Tanya Joyce, Emeryville, CA, "The Awning at Priya"
Jabez Churchill
Jabez Churchill, Ukiah, CA, with "Marchito/Faded"
Grand Prize Winner
Jeanne Wagner, Kensington, CA
Dance of the Seven Veils

Read during the dance by Natica Angilly
for text of the poem and more photos,
click on tab "Dance of the Seven Veils"



"Behind the torch lights, upturned faces tilt/and leer like sallow lilies in the dark."
"I shed one veil for each two years I've lived. / You show one thing, another is concealed."
"One veil hides my mouth but not my eyes./ I watch the platters where the fish heads stare"
Goddess 2U
Wild Geese
poem by Mary Oliver, read by the dancers

Goddess 2U
Goddess 2U gave a dynamic performance
With each dancer delivering part of the poem during the dance, the concept of poetry and dance as a unified art form reached to new heights
They performed to an authentic, live Middle Eastern band
Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company
Welcome to Wonderland
Poem written and read by Richard Angilly

Wanda Ingmire
"Circus" The signature finale af Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company
Arthur Levinson
Comic and serious is all included in the Circus of Life
Lee Solamon
"Lee Solamon..." Each performer ofl NAPDTC receives an intro and bow during "Circus"
Nancy Merritt
Nancy Merritt takes her bow, announced by poet Richard Angilly, author of "Circus"