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THE

ISOLATION DANCES

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1. FOREST CREATURES

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Music: Yma Sumac sings "Queen of the Night: Mambo!" (After Mozart's Die Zauberflöte)

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Music: Yma Sumac: Live in Moscow, 1960; "Chuncho (forest creatures)"

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Music: Giacomo Puccini; "Coro a Bocca Chiusa (humming chorus)," Madama Butterfly, sung by the Hungarian State Opera

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Music: Yma Sumac sings "Clair de Lune"

By Claude Debussy

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Music: Yma Sumac

"Moscow Nights"

Larissa Archer holding mask. Photo by Steven Disenhof

Music: Yma Sumac
"Birds"

Music: Yma Sumac, "Birds"

San Francisco Bellydance Theater Chuncho

Music: Yma Sumac, "Taita Inty" and "Chuncho"

2. Dances on various themes

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Music: "Eros"
by Mary Hampton.

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Music: "Tsintskaro"
by Hamlet Gonashvili

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Music: "Tomb of the Time King" and "Whisper 1:
Lost in the Sand" 
by Paul Mercer

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Music: "Gold Hat"
by Mary Hampton

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Music: "Arabian Coffee" from The Nutcracker, by P.I. Tchaikovsky. voice: Lavinia Findikoglu, Movement Center LA Gyrokinesis

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Music: "Za Lyesam"

by the Pennywhistlers

Music: Paul Mercer, "Arnos Vale"

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Music: "Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott," St. Matthew Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach, sung by Fadia el Hage with Ensemble Sarband

Flower Maiden's costume, Wagner's "Parsifal," San Francisco Opera, 1988

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Pando's 60th birthday.
Music: Basiani, Tsintskaro

Music: "Music Box" and "L'Etoile de Mer"  by Paul Mercer

Music: Paul Mercer, Green Sparrow, At the Sound of the Bell, and Replacing Delphine

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San Francisco,

September 9th, 2020, 11am

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Music: "Soave sia il vento," from Così fan tutte, by W.A. Mozart

Central Park, New York, October 2022

3.Groundswell

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Music: "Milk and Honey" by Sandy Denny

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The Bullfrog Queen

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Music: "Shadowdance"
by Paul Mercer

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Music: "Morning Meditation," "Night Rise," "Abigail Remembers"
by Paul Mercer

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