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To All Relations 97, features Great Leap and Bindu Records hosting a concert of global rhythms and dance for 1200 people at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater.	To All Relations 98 celebrates Great Leap's 20th anniversary retrospective at the Japan America Theatre in Los Angeles.	To All Relations 99 kicks off the World Festival of Sacred Music with a day of festivities and performance at Senshin Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles.



To All Relations 2000: Connecting Communities brings together community members who share their diverse stories of life in Phoenix.	To All Relations: Telling our Own Stories. Nobuko works with South Asian youth in San Jose to create community dialogue and prompt individual reflection.	To All Relations: From the Ground Up in Watts grows a garden and empowers youth and community members to share and explore their own histories.



To All Relations: Re-spiriting Detroit Great Leap works with Detroiters to grow community gardens and revive this abandoned city with a new dance, "I Dream a Garden."	To All Relations: Memories of Boyle Heights, a poetic fusion of stories, music, and dance drawn from the lives of the people of Boyle Heights.	To All Relations: Sacred Moon Songs A choral-poem based on stories from the Muslim, Japanese and Mexican American experiences throughout Los Angeles and beyond.



To All Relations: Ceremony of Rememberance, a whirlwind 6 day residency with Hmong Students at the University of Wisconsin, Marathan County.		To All Relations: The Art of Weaving Faiths, a sacred space in which people of diverse religions & cultures can come together for a day of creative mindfulness to experience our interconnections.

Since 1997, To All Relations has been through many incarnations, as a global concert at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater, celebrating our 20th Anniversary at the Japan America Theatre in 1998, as part of the World Festival of Sacred Music in 1999, and spreading its wings in a residency project connecting youth and elders in Arizona in 2000.

Today, the To All Relations residency project helps participants share their stories and visions of community. Great Leap's work in communities successfully engages people in the creative process of sharing their personal stories in the context of their community's rituals, struggles and celebrations, and explores the boundaries of our connectedness.

Great Leap has gathered stories and created performances with diverse communities across the country… in San Jose, Watts, Phoenix, Detroit, and Boyle Heights.

Stay tuned for more about our curent "To All Relations: The Art of Weaving Faiths" project offers a sacred space in which people of diverse religions and cultures can come together for a day of creative mindfulness to experience our interconnections. Beyond dialogue, it employs “moving energy” through breath, movement, song, poetry and art to access our intuitive/emotional selves. From this place spiritual rituals are shared, individual stories flow, a group story emerges and a new kind of community is born.

“As an artist, I feel privileged to be able to help give voice to individuals and communities whose stories are not often heard... Each residency is unique and each a challenge that tries to give people the opportunity to taste the magic, the chaos and the creative possibilities of collective artmaking. Helping them see their life as a story shows them the possibilities that live inside each of them. It also opens a way for them to share their stories and realize we are ‘all relations.’” -- Nobuko Miyamoto

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Last updated: 5/23/07


	To All Relations Great Leap in residence... in communities