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Piao Zhu: Flying Bamboo

contemporary Chinese percussion


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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
About Piao Zhu
Songs, dance, drums, cymbals, gongs, and bamboo performed by Byron Au Yong, Karen Akada Sakata, Ying Zhou, Tophe Anderson, and special guests.

Piao Zhu began as a ceremonial work created for the Seattle Asian Art Museum in 2006. The project was inspired by the legend of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove - a band of Chinese scholars ad poets who met to escape political and societal duress during the 3rd century BCE.

Since then, Flying Bamboo has performed as part of the Community Arts Day Celebration for Bainbridge Performing Arts, the Arts-in-Nature Festival and other events throughout the Pacific Northwest.

News
Piao Zhu: Flying Bamboo was recommended to 4Culture's 2009 Touring Arts Roster. Flying Bamboo is available to perform for various functions with one to three musicians.