Many powwows involve dance competitions, with prizes awarded in each category.
The Whitney isn't the only museum to involve dance artists in its programming.
"Vision Begins" is a mixed media piece involving dance, voice and video.
The filmed performances involving dance seem to be happening live, with audible percussive sounds from the dancers (and in Mr. Bando's case, actual percussion).
The program also facilitates interaction with visiting composers through the colloquium series, and there are numerous opportunities for collaborations involving dance, theater, and film through the Lewis Center for the Arts.
AKIM FUNK BUDDHA (Tuesday) The American-born, Zimbabwe-raised Akim Ndlovu, who performs as Akim Funk Buddha, creates theatrical mash-ups involving dance, poetry, music and storytelling.
Most important of all, the wearing of special clothes in ritual dances, as in rituals not involving dance, is a way of signaling and preserving the sacred quality of the occasion and removing it from ordinary life.
More recently, he won plaudits for "Shazam!," a critically acclaimed work involving dance, film and video which was performed in New York in 2001 by Compagnie DCA as part of France Moves, a festival of French contemporary dance.
Oct. 5 will feature solo piano music, an interdisciplinary work involving dance, and Mr. Braxton's Falling River Music Quartet; on Oct. 6 he'll present his electronics-centered Diamond Curtain Wall Trio, and works for the Tri-Centric Orchestra.
