Trickster!
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Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2010 · Music
http://chicagohumanities.org - See more Chicago Humanities Festival events. The Trickster—sometimes funny, often devious, always unpredictable—is a familiarly mischievous character in the folklore of many cultures. In this family program, two tales of tricksters good and bad come alive through story and dance. Emily Hooper Lansana and Glenda Zahra Baker of In the Spirit tell the tale of West Africas meddlesome yet helpful Anansi the Spider. In contrast, the wicked demon king Ravana of the Hindu epic the Ramayana disguises himself to capture a beautiful princess. This story is brought to life with vivid masks and costumes by Kalapriya Dance, Indian dancer Pranita Jain, and I Gusti Ngurah Kertayuda of Indonesian Dance of Illinois.
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