Karlton Hester has composed the music for Karen Tei Yamashita’s libretto that is a reading of the envisioned as an operetta within a dance/videographic play.

More info at: https://arts.ucsc.edu/news_events/indian-midsummer-april-santa-cruz-festival-event

Presented by:
Digital Arts and New Media
Music Department

This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.

Emeritus Professor Karen Tei Yamashita, librettist (UCSC Literature Department)
Professor Karlton Hester, composer (“Santa Cruz Balledrama”, Music Department and DANM)
Professor Marianne Weems, Theatrical Consultant (Theater Arts Department)
Professor Yangxi, choreographer (& MUC students, Taotao Huang, and Yaxuan Xu)
Mandjou Kone, choreographer
Steph Layton, cinematographer
Heeyoung Choi, music stage manager
Ronaldo Lopes de Oliveira, artist
Amaya Walsh Saldivar, theatrical stage manager
Dramaturgy by Lucy Mae S.P. Burns