2011
December – Spring
Dates, venues, partners and countries to be announced
Battelle Endowment Project: Shifting Centers: Creative Collaboration in and outside of Africa through Cyberlearning and Ubiquitous Technologies
October 26th, 2011
Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project present an excerpt of "Beautiful Struggle"
at the Ohio Arts Presenters Conference at the Columbus Athanaeum from 915am-925am.
More info: www.oapn.org
October 21 & 22 - 7:30pm and 9:00pm
Esther performs short solo in this showcase "Free to be You and Me" - Ten Tiny Dances
Where: Feverhead -1199 Goodale Blvd, Columbus, OH 43212
Admission: Pay what you can, Suggested Donation $10
September 5-14, 2011
Esther in Residency at OSU for Whiteness Revisited Again and Again aka Beautiful Struggle
September 1-20, 2011
Olivier in Residency at Choreographic Development Center, Ouagadougou
August 7-28, 2011
Study Dance and Drum in Burkina Faso Program
July 20th, 6pm 2011
Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival
More info: www.jacobspillow.org
July 15th, 11am & 8pm 2011
Disorder Inside Order presented by Kelly Strayhorn Theater
More info: www.kelly-strayhorn.org
July 11-16, 2011
Kelly Strayhorn Theatre Residency, Pittsburgh
April 24-30, 2011
Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project to Rabat, Morocco to teach workshops and commission project for DABA TEATRE Citoyen
Friday, January 7, 2011
Dates, venues, partners and countries to be announced
730pm and 925pm
"Sira Kan/On The Road" at The Ailey Citigroup Theater
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2010
November 19 - December 5
Performance and Teaching residency
Action Danse International Festival
Casablanca, Meknes and Marrakech, Morocco
Mid September- late October (Project to be confirmed and exact dates to be announced)
New work by Esther Baker-Tarpaga and Olivier Tarpaga
A commissioned residency for the “Nimbaya” all women percussion and dance ensemble of Guinea
Residency #1 in Siguiri, Republic of Guinea (West Africa)
Residency #2 in Conakry, Republic of Guinea (West Africa)
August (Dates, venues and more cities to be announced)
Workshops in Lyon
France
July 25 - August 11
Ouagadougou Dance and Drum Study abroad Program
Burkina Faso
July 22 - August 8
A new work by Olivier Tarpaga (Title and cast TBD)
Residency in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
July 17
“Sira Kan”
Two performances at the Global Dance Conference
Dance Theater Workshop (DTW), New York City
July 5-16 (Monday – Friday)
Dafra Drum
Performances for the Summer Sounds 41st Season
Hollywood Bowl Museum
Hollywood, CA
June 19 - July 4
Dafra Drum
Rehearsal with the writer and comedians for the Summer Sounds Festival 41st Season Summer of World music for children organized by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association at the Hollywood Bowl Museum
Hollywood, CA
June 10-14
Teaching residency at the Cudamani Institute
Public workshop venue and date to be announced
Bali, Indonesia
June 5-6
Intensive weekend of Dance and Drum workshops
Kuala Lumpur (Venue to be announced soon)
June 7-8
Teaching residency at ASWARA, (National Academy for the Arts)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
May 7-8
“Down the Road” by Esther Baker Tarpaga
Commissioned by OSU’s Department of Dance for 12 dancers
Live music and composition by Olivier Tarpaga and Michael Wall
Riffe Center’s Capitol Theatre, Columbus, OH
April 26 - May 3
“Sira Kan”
Performance & teaching residency
Abok I Ngoma International Dance & Drum Festival
Yaoundé, Cameroon (Central Africa)
More info: www.assomeka.org
April 24
“Sira Kan”
Performance at Kenyon College
Gambier, OH
April 21
“Sira Kan”
Performance at OSU Lima
Lima, OH
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2009
August 1-15
Bt Dance Project, Dafra Drum & Association Napam Beogo present :
Ouagadougou Dance & Drum study abroad
Intensive Workshops in Dance, Drumming & Visual Art
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
July 28 - August 16
Residency BT Dance Project in Ouagadougou
New work by Olivier Tarpaga assisted by Esther Baker-Tarpaga & Wilfried Souly
Burkina Faso
July (TBD)
Audition for new work by BT Dance Project in Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso
June 19-20
Sira Kan & Arbre D'Adaptation
Wild Dancing West Festival
VSA, Albuquerque, New Mexico
More information : http://www.vsartsnm.org/
June 3rd
Dafra Drum in collaboration with Catch Me Bird
California Center for the Arts
Escondido, CA
May 22
Perfomance by Dafra Drum & workshop students from UNIS
United Nation International School in Hanoi
Vietnam
May 21
Dance workshop & performance by Dafra Drum
Blue Dragon Center
Hanoi, Vietnam
May 12-24
Instensive teaching residency in Dance by BT Dance Project
Instensive teaching residency in Drumming by Dafra Drum
United Nation International School in Hanoi
Vietnam
May 15
Dafra Drum
Perfomance at Canyon Charter Elementary School
Santa Monica, CA
March 10
“Duna” by Baker &Tarpaga Dance Project (USA) and Kongoba Teria (Burkina Faso)
Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
More infos : www.arts.cornell.edu
December (to be confirmed)
Teaching residency and “Sira Kan” Performances tour
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
December 14th
LA’s Best After School Program Community Jam
Choreography and music by Olivier Tarpaga and Wilfried Souly
The KODAK Theater
Hollywood, California
December 1st
CHIME Live Showing
“Recto Verso” a solo Project by Olivier Tarpaga, mentored by David Rousseve
The Farmlab, Downtown Los Angeles
November 20-22
Performances of new work by Esther Baker-Tarpaga
Rio Hando Community college
Whittier, CA
November 13, 7-9pm
“DAFRA Drum”
Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts
Santa Ana, CA
More info: www.bowers.org
November
Studio Residency
“Recto Verso” a solo Project by Olivier Tarpaga, mentored by David Rousseve
The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s Southern California CHIME Mentorship Grant
Los Angeles, CA
October-November
Creation Residency at Marlborough High School
Choreography by Esther Baker-Tarpaga and Olivier Tarpaga
Los Angeles, CA
October 12th
“DAFRA Drum”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles (USA)
More info: www.skirball.org
October 5th
“DAFRA Drum”
Grant R. Brimhall Library
Thousand Oaks, California
More info: www.thousandoaksreads.org
October 3-4
Africa Dance Festival
Dance workshop by Olivier Tarpaga at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy
Los Angeles, CA
More info: www.debbieallendanceacademy.com
September-November
New Work residency by Esther Baker-Tarpaga
Commissioned by Rio Hondo Community College
Whittier, California
September 28th, 3-7pm
“DAFRA Drum”
“Honoring the Sea”, Closing ceremony of the World Festival of Sacred Music
Santa Monica Beach, at the end of Ocean Park Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA
More info: www.festivalofsacredmusic.org
September 27th, 3:15pm
“DAFRA Drum”
Street Art Festival
Santa Clarita, CA
More info: www.streetartfest.com
September 14th
“DAFRA Drum”
World Festival of Sacred Music
MOOLA (Museum of Latin American Art)
Long Beach, CA
More info: www.molaa.org
September 7th
“DAFRA Drum”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles (USA)
More info: www.skirball.org
September 5th, 8pm
“SANS DETOURS”
A Catch Me Birth and Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project’s Production.
The Ford Amphitheater
Hollywood, California
More info: www.fordtheatres.org
August 30th, 10am
DAFRA Drum presents:
“ ROGOM MIK”
Big World! Fun! Family program
The Ford Amphitheater
Hollywood, California
More info: www.fordtheatres.org
August 24th
“DAFRA Drum”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles (USA)
More info: www.skirball.org
August 10th-September 4th
Intensive Residency
“Gnama Gnama Mana Mana Kono/Disorder Inside Order” at The Dancer’s Studio
Los Angeles, CA
July 27th
“DAFRA Drum”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles (USA)
July 17-19, 8:30pm
Sira Kan/On the Road"
The NOW Festival at the Red Cat theater
Los Angeles
More info: www.redcat.org
June 23-July 11
Hot House Residency Program
Sira Kan and Disorder Inside Order Residency at Glorya Kaufman Hall, WAC/UCLA
Los Angeles
More info: www.wac.ucla.edu
June 1st
“DAFRA Drum”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles (USA)
May 27, 9 am
"DAFRA Drum"
Performance at Canyon Charter Elementary School
Santa Monica, California
May 10, 3:15pm
“DAFRA Drum”
Performance at the Santa Monica Festival
Santa Monica (USA)
More info: www.arts.santa-monica.org
Or: www.santamonicafestival.org
April 20
"DAFRA Drum"
Earth Day Festival
Santa Barbara, California
More info: www.communityenvironmentalcouncil.org
April - May
Studio Residency Part 1
“Recto Verso” a solo Project by Olivier Tarpaga mentored by David Rousseve
The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s Southern California CHIME Mentorship Grant
Los Angeles, CA
March 15, 8pm
“Dar Es Salaam”
Celebrate Dance Festival 2008
The Alex Theater
More info: www.wac.ucla.edu
March 1st, 7-10pm
PERFORMANCE BENEFIT PARTY to support the new production of "Sans Detour",
Created by Catch Me Bird and Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project
Abundant Sugar at The Brewery in Downtown Los Angeles
618A Moulton Ave.
February 28th, 12pm
Excerpts of BT Dance Project new works
In the garden theater
Glorya Kaufman Hall WAC/UCLA
More info: www.wac.ucla.edu
February 23rd, 8pm
“ Visages” Project with ZIG ZAG Ballet
World Premiere
Rich Forum, Stamford Center for the Arts
Stamford, Connecticut
More info: www.stamfordcenterforthearts.org
February 5th- 22nd
“ Visages” Project with ZIG ZAG Ballet
(Choreography by Olivier Tarpaga and BT Dance Project)
Residency commissioned by Connecticut Ballet for Zig Zag Ballet
Stamford, Connecticut (USA)
More info: www.connecticutballet.com
January 15th, 9:30 am
“ DUNA”
Brentwood School
Los Angeles, CA
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2007
November 11 – 21
“ Visages” Project
(Choreography by Olivier Tarpaga and BT Dance Project, to be premiered at the Stamford Performing Arts Center on February 23rd 2008)
Residency part 1 commissioned by Connecticut Ballet for Zig Zag Ballet Stamford, Connecticut (USA)
November 10th, 2007 8PM
SOLA Contemporary Dance Festival 2007
James Armstrong Theater
More info : www.rkdc.org
November 3 - 4
"Sira Kan/on the road"
Electric Lodge theater, Dancing in the Margins Festival.
Venice, CA
October (Dates & place TBD)
Worshops series for Dancing in the Margins Festival, Los Angeles.
October 28
“DAFRA”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles (USA)
October 27
"Dafra"
Private celebrity Halloween party performance in Hollywood, CA
October 15
“DAFRA”
The Skirball Cultural Center’s Auditorium,
Los Angeles (USA)
October 6
“DAFRA”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles (USA)
September 16
"Dafra"
Skirball Cultural Center Noah's Ark amphitheater performances
September 5, 6, 13, 14
"Dafra"
LA's Best after school assembly's Tour
September 2
“ DAFRA”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles (USA)
September 1 – 10
Solo project
Residency part 1 with Esther Baker -Tarpaga in collaboration with Hana
Van der Kolk
Vermont (USA)
August 29
Excerpt of “Gnama Gnama Mana Mana Kono” at the Western Arts Aliance Conference
Los Angeles (USA)
August 25
“DAFRA” and Poe Ball
The Derby Dolls Event at Industry Hills Expo Center’s Grand Arena
City of Industry
California (USA)
August 18 - 19
“DAFRA”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center,
Los Angeles (USA)
July 14
“DAFRA”
Independence Day private performance at a Malibu mansion
Malibu
July 11
“DAFRA”
Performance for the Noah’s Ark Exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles (USA)
May 24 – 26
“Each of us”
The Luckman Theater of Cal State University
Los Angeles (USA)
May 17-20
"Arbre d' Adaptation"
Emerging Above Ground Festival at the Diavolo Space
Los Angeles (USA)
April 20, 2007
"Arbre D'Adaptation" tour to perform at Festival de Hoodoo,
Afro-contemporaine in Montpellier, France.
April 17- May 2
“YÀrÀ Lon” Project, lead by Esther Baker-Tarpaga with the collaboration of Olivier Tarpaga
Centre Culturel Franco-Guineen
Residency and performance commissioned by the US Embassy in Conakry for Ballet National Djoliba
Conakry, (Guinea)
March 16 & 17
“Gnama Gnama Mana Mana Kono” (Work in progress)
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica (USA)
March 8 – 24 May
“Each of us” Project
Choreographed by Esther Baker-Tarpaga and BT Dance Project
Residency commissioned by the Department of Dance and Theater of Cal State University, Los Angeles (USA)
March 3
Olivier Tarpaga and Amadou Kienou
Collaboration with the Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie
Bremen, (Germany)
Feb 6 - 12
“Noyenga”
Connecticut State Performing and Teaching Tour with Zig Zag Ballet,
Connecticut (USA)
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2005-2006
December 9 – 23, 2006
“Grass Undone”
Dialogue de Corps International dance festival
Ouagadougou, (Burkina Faso)
November 10 – 12, 2006
“Miserable”
Dancing in the Margins Festival at the Deaf West Theatre
North Hollywood, CA (USA)
October 21, 2006
“Pretty Poly”
OPENING MOVES – eagle rock movement theater series.
Open Gate Theater- Eagle Rock, California (USA)
August 28 – September 11, 2006
Teaching residency at Akedemi Seni Budaya Dan Warisan Kebangsaan Kuala Lumpur, (Malaysia)
August 19 – 28, 2006
Teaching residency at Tokyo Olympic Center
Tokyo, (Japan)
June 21 – July 3, 2006
“DAFRA”
Live drumming demonstration by Olivier Tarpaga, special guest at Tel Aviv’s University radio station and at a private weeding ceremony.
Tel Aviv, (Israel)
April 14 – 16, 2006
The “Grass Undone” concert
UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures MFA series at Glorya Kaufman Theater Los Angeles (USA)
March 29 – April 6, 2006
“Kuilenga/The Door”
Performance and teaching residency at the Maitisong Festival
Gaborone, (Botswana)
March 24 – 28, 2006
Excerpt of “Kuilenga/The Door” and teaching residency at The Heart of the Arts in Pretoria, (South Africa)
December 2005
Ausdance
Dance and drumming workshops series at the King Street Arts Center Perth, (Australia)
November 29, 2005
“Kuilenga/The Door”
Then Again Festival at Center Stage Theater
Santa Barbara (USA)
August 24 – 28, 2005
“Dafra”
Festival Tam Tam Macadam in Alma and Chicoutimi
Quebec, (Canada)
April 8, 2005
“Kuilenga/the Door”
Dance Under Construction Conference WAC/UCLA
Los Angeles (USA)
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2003-2004
December 23, 2004
“Miserable”, “Le President”, “Noyenga”
Educational Center for the Arts Dance Theater
New Haven, Connecticut (USA)
July and Dec 2004
Teaching residency at the Educational Center for the Arts
New Haven, Connecticut (USA)
July 2004
“Miserable” (World Premiere)
Summer Festival of the Educational Center for the Arts
New Haven, Connecticut (USA)
May - June 2003
“Sulun Suku”
The Rich Forum Stamford Performing Arts Center
Stamford, Connecticut
The Presbuterian Church
New York City (USA)
Djoniba Dance and Drum Center
New York City (USA)
