Coded Messages: CHAINS Acknowledgments
We would like to thank:
- our co-director, choreographer, and master drummer, Francis
Kofi, for his inspired participation and valuable contribution.
- The performers: Felicia Adeti, Aborchie Etse, Faustina Nyanovar,
Martin Kofi Gademey and Blaise Ketsri for being open to working
in foreign ways.
- Carla Peterson, and the Suitcase Fund: A Project of Ideas
and Means in Cross-Cultural Artist Relations, an initiative of
Dance Theatre Workshop in New York City, with major funding from
The Rockefeller Foundation, for funding the performances.
- Professor J.H. Kwabena Nketia, International Centre for African
Music and Dance, University of Ghana, for his wonderful hospitality,
support, and ideas.
- Professor C.K. Ladzekpo, Professor of Music, University of
California at Berkeley, for opening the first doors, and continuing
to give inspiration, especially here with translations and interpretations
of his tradition.
- Gustav Hlomatsi, Chief Ewe Translator at the Bureau of Ghana
Languages.
- Joe Ladzekpo, tsiami of Anyako, for his hospitality
in all our visits, and for making us welcome to import this performance.
- Bless Dzikunu, our translator in Anyako.
- John Darkey, Director of the PANAFEST Secretariat.
- Ken Perlin, Director of the NYU Center for Digital Multimedia,
and the C4DM, for hosting Coded Messages: CHAINS on the web.
- Noah-Wardrip Fruin of the NYU C4DM, for beta testing early
versions of the site.
- Jon McKenzie for editorial advice.
- Craig Harris for inviting us to Leonardo.
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