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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