Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Shangri-la Chinese Acrobats
The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats' multi-faceted and multi-cultural production features dazzling acrobatic displays, formidable feats of daring and balance, explosive energy, brilliant costumes, with a touch of Chinese comedy.
When:
October 9, 2009 8:00pm to 12:00am
Where
"A delight for all ages, a flurry of pure showmanship! There's an ebullient, ingratiating appeal in all this frantic action that astonishes..."
The San Francisco Chronicle
For over 25 years, the amazing performances of The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats have flawlessly interpreted the precision and grace of an art form honed by centuries of training and disciplines of Chinese acrobatics. Their multi-faceted and multi-cultural production features dazzling acrobatic displays, formidable feats of daring and balance, explosive energy, brilliant costumes, with a touch of Chinese comedy. These daring maneuvers and death-defying acrobatic acts will have you clamoring for more!
The Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats received the Performing Arts Campus Entertainment Award by the National Association for Campus Activities and were nominated for the Reader's Choice Award - Best Live Novelty Act by Campus Activities Magazine. The group also had the honor of performing at the USA Olympic Swim Team's Golden Goggles Gala and reprised their performances for that organization at the recent USA Swim Team's Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Cost:
$29, $24, $19 / $10 youth
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