Chaw Ei Thein's up coming collaboration with Alliance for New Music-Theatre

This collaborative performance explores the culturally rich artistry and complexity of the long troubled and still struggling Myanmar. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

http://newmusictheatre.org/blog/2012/05/sandaya-burmese-lessons/

What is it like to live in a society where you are muzzled,  where everything you say is overheard and reported on? Told from the perspective of artists, musicians and other performers  who are trying to pursue their art, "Sandaya: Burmese Lessons" is  a musical theater performance that covers twenty years of Burmese  history, including when the military junta clamped down on Burmese  demonstrators killing 10,000 people in 1988 and ending with the Saffron  revolution of 2007. This is the story of a young American pianist who  learns about Burmese society by playing Burmese music. This performance is produced by Alliance for New Music-Theatre,  and it features contemporary performance art and Burmese dance,  drumming and puppetry with American as well as Burmese performers,  who are coming from Yangon.  The work is co-created by Kit Young, composer,  Susan Galbraith, director - scriptwriter, and Chaw Ei Thein, performance artist. SAVE THE DATE ! Sandaya: Burmese Lessons kicks off Radical Transformations the performance series by Alliance for New Music-Theatre  July 11-14,18-21, 2013  Thursday - Sunday evenings 8pm Sunday matinees at - special ‘pay what you can’ preview - 8pm Burmese food on July 11 and at Sunday Matinees  at Atlas Performing Arts Center Click here for TICKETS -For more information, click here Sandaya : Burmese Lessons traces the journey of  a young American pianist as she learns Burmese  language and unique piano style (sandaya).  Her story captures her relationships with  a Burmese performance artist and  U Ko Ko, her piano teacher, as all three become  caught up in the struggle between artistic  expression and tyranny.