About Piao Zhu Piao Zhu: Flying Bamboo is a contemporary performance initiative. The
Seattle Weekly
describes the group as "a new dance/percussion/chant meditation/ritual
by Byron Au Yong, whose interdisciplinary works are as exquisite and
imaginative as they are unclassifiable."
The idea for Piao Zhu: Flying Bamboo was inspired by the legend of the
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove - a band of Chinese scholars and poets
who met to escape political and societal duress during the 3rd century
BCE.
A Piao Zhu performance includes songs, drums, cymbals, gongs,
bamboo, fiddle, mouth harp, and dance with a focus on social action and
artistic wonder.
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Piao Zhu: Flying Bamboo is proud to be part of 4Culture's 2009-2010
Touring Arts Roster. [
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Press Quote"Piao Zhu, in English 'flying bamboo,' a new dance/percussion/chant meditation/ritual by
Byron Au Yong, whose interdisciplinary works are as exquisite and imaginative
as they are unclassifiable."
Gavin Borchert, Seattle Weekly Pick