DRAMA 110 Artist Workshops WTR. QTR. 5 UNITS (Prof. H. Elam) Tues. & Thurs. 3:15- 6:00  + Thursday noon lectures Applications required to enroll.
Enroll in this unique Stanford University course. Students will have the opportunity to create work that tells your story through visual and performing arts in one of three intense workshops led by reknown American artists. Application required.
		June Watanabe June Watanabe, artistic director, choreographer, dancer and educator, is recognized for her starkly focused contemporary dance theater works and her one-of-a-kind collaborations with distinguished artists from diverse disciplines. Her dance style embodies a profound emotional and spiritual sensibility that is universal to the human spirit and womanhood. Illuminated by her Japanese-American heritage, Watanabe’s work captures the universality of the human condition within an Eastern temporal and spatial framework. Underlying her work is a concern with ritualistic and metaphysical formalities that crosses all cultures and time -- the ancient past and the immediacy of the present.

A graduate of UCLA, she is Professor at Mills College. In 1980 she became artistic director of her own company June Watanabe In Company is a dance company committed to the creation of humanistic works which incorporate artistic, cultural and historic elements through an innovative, interdisciplinary approach. Using dance as the catalytic force, Watanabe and her collaborators transform visual imagery, scenic design, movement and contemporary music into a kaleidoscope of interactive elements.

Watanabe's commissions include: a Young Choreographer in Residence at the American Dance Festival in 1987 & 1988, a co-commission/residency at Jacob's Pillow in 1990 & a residency in 1993, and four time recipient of Meet the Composer/Choreographer Commissioning Awards in 1989, 1990, 1992 & 1998, as well as the Dallas Black Dance Theatre 1996, and the Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Garden and the Japan America Theatre 1996.

John Santos Percussionist, composer, writer and educator; John Santos was raised in the Puerto Rican and Cape Verdean traditions of his family, surrounded by music. The fertile musical environment of the San Francisco Bay Area shaped his career in a unique way. His studies of Afro-Latin music have included several trips to New York, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Colombia.

Widely respected as one of the top writers, educators and historians in the field, Mr. Santos is a member of the Latin Jazz Advisory Committee of the Smithsonian Institution and has contributed to the international magazines Percussive Notes , Modern Drummer ,Modern Percussionist , and Latin Percussionist . The San Francisco Bay Area community in which he still lives and works has presented him with numerous awards and honors for artistic excellence and social dedication. Mr. Santos is also a distinguished and creative multi-percussionist and recording artist. His diverse credits include: Grupo Mezcla (Havana, Cuba), Irakere West, Santana, Cal Tjader, Charlie Hunter, Danilo Perez, Linda Tillery, Ignacio Berroa, Omar Sosa, Bobby Hutcherson, McCoy Tyner, Lalo Schifrin, Jon Jang, Yma Sumac, Pete and Sheila Escovedo, Mark Murphy, John Faddis, Batacumbele and Batucaje. He was the director of the Orquesta Tipica Cienfuegos (l976-1980) and the Orquesta Batachanga (1981-1985). Mr. Santos currently directs the Machete Ensemble (since 1986), a world-class Latin Jazz band of international renown, and is recording and touring with the Cuban piano phenom, Omar Sosa.

Sekou Sundiata Sekou Sundiata is a poet who writes for print, performance, music and theater. In collaboration with composer Craig Harris, he wrote and performed in several acclaimed theater works. His latest recording, Long Story Short was released on Righteous Babe Records. He has been a Sundance Institute Screenwriting Fellow, a Columbia University Revson Fellow, a Master Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida) and the first Writer-in-Residence at the New School University in New York. A professor at Eugene Lang College, Sekou was featured in the Bill Moyers PBS series on poetry, "The Language of Life."

Mr. Sundiata will be developing a new work over the next year-and-a- half on campuses and in communities in various parts of the country. The IDA residency at Stanford next winter (in collaboration with the Committee on Black Performing Arts) will be a featured site for the development of this new performance work, which involves group and individual interviews with a wide range of Americans on the subjects of the state of the union and the national soul.