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Continue reading →: Butoh in San Francisco
Rae, Susan and I went to see eclipse: celebrations and funeral, a new performance piece by Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre. Koichi Tamano, the choreographer and artistic director for the dance company was introduced to Butoh 38 years ago by its founder, Tatsumi Hijikata. Eclipse was held at the SomArts Cultural…
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Continue reading →: San Francisco
Drove up to the City this afternoon to review some of the Vienna Teng East Coast Tour footage with a crew from Voice of America, who is doing a segment on Vienna. While Vienna and Jim worked on some new recordings, I reviewed the tapes with Lily. Overall, the footage…
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Continue reading →: La Jolla Country Day School
I’m writing this on a plane that is 229 miles away from the San Jose International Airport. Following the Vienna Teng tour, I made a stop at my hometown of San Diego. I spend the past few days with the family, resting and recuperating from the two and a half…
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Continue reading →: Vienna at The Basement
19 performances and a number of television and radio appearances later, we’re at the end of the East Coast Tour. Vienna’s tour began on March 27 at the Kendall Cafe in Boston, MA and today, April 17, it ended at The Basement in Nashville, TN. Nashville, as one might suspect,…
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Continue reading →: Vienna at Eddie's Attic
Television studios are cool! This morning, we headed to the Fox 5 television station for a morning interview and performance. We when arrived, they were filming a segment on a group of junior Atlanta Falcon cheerleaders. I must admit that it was weird to see them performing live and on…
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Continue reading →: Day Off!
Today was the first (and only) day off during the entire Vienna Teng East Coast Tour. We spent the evening at a very suspect Day’s Inn in Asheville, North Carolina. We had a nice lunch at the Chinese Noodle House right in the center of the town. The beef noodle…
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Continue reading →: Viennasaur
Vienna was on WNCW Radio this morning. We were listening to the station during our drive, and they mentioned how Vienna was going to come on at 1:00 pm! I used to think that there was so much prep time needed for a radio or television show, but we arrived…
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Continue reading →: Wisterious Hiking
This afternoon, the Lights took Jim, Vienna, and me out hiking at this trail nearby their house. The sun has finally broken out from the rainy and snowy conditions of the past few weeks. It actually feels a little bit like California now! Life is a little bit more relaxed…
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Continue reading →: Vienna at Temple Ball Gallery
In the evening, after our wisterious hiking adventure, we returned to the Temple Ball Gallery to hear Lisa Ray, Denise Barbarita, and Vienna Teng perform. The crowd was much smaller than the one at the Tori Tribute the previous evening, which allowed us a little more freedom to experiment and…
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Continue reading →: Tori Amos Tribute Concert
The morning was spent sleeping. Sleeping is good when you’re traveling non-stop from city to city, day by day. The Viennasaur hibernated until well past noon, waking up from her sweet slumber around 1:00 pm. We hung out at Connie’s place for a couple of hours, which we spent looking…






