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Audio/Video streaming!
Visit our web-cast site and enjoy recordings of Ableza
performances!
New video from "Dancing the Circle!"
Also "Truth And Lies," "Honor and Pain,"
and much more.
Ableza produced a new live, multi-media performance
called "Dancing the Circle." The World Premier performance
was October 12-15 2000 at the San Jose City College main stage.
It tells the tale of how music came to the people from the spirits,
and how it continues to define our lives today.
American Literary Association
Ableza's Diane Way was an invited presenter at the
2000 ALA Native Literature Symposium in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
She produced a staged reading of one of her plays, "EverySkin's
Day In Court" to everyone's delight!
images from the year 2000 events!
"EverySkin's Day in Court"
The participants in F.A.C.Y.T.
have written a new, original play, "EverySkin's
Day In Court." An adaptation of traditional trickster
tales from several Nations into the modern world... Coyote is
portrayed as a high-priced slick-talking lawyer... who has his
OWN day in court... but I don't want to give anything away! The
radio broadcast will be an abridged version of the full-length
play.
Ableza is accepting donations to help defray the cost
of putting this production in a local professional theatre, and
to help make tickets available for free/reduced cost to American
Indian people. If you can help, please contact
Ableza.
Ableza's Diane
Way's play "Tiospe" was featured at the 1997 Frank
Silvera Writer's Workshop Readers Series.
This play, "Tiospe" (Lakota for "family,"
"band," or "extended family") is about the
boarding school days around the turn of the century, and especially
about the first meeting of American Indians and African Americans
at the Hampton School. Loosely based on Diane's family history,
the play is an exciting new work and the first time the two cultures
depicted have meet on the same stage.
Check out the link above for
pictures from the trip!
Ableza, 1279 Mildred Ave. San Jose, CA 95125
(408) 267-4609 fax: (408) 267-9609
Thank you for your assistance!