DANCE

Indo-American Association presents World Music and Dance at its best. Friday May 21, 8pm, at Wortham Center IAA presents India Jazz Suites.

Kathak Master CHITRESH DAS and world’s fastest tap dancer JASON SMITH, joined by four Indian musicians and three jazz musicians, create a global conversation that San Francisco Chronicle names best dance performance of 2005 and that PBS and BBC find worthy of a documentary film.

JASON is a two-time Emmy winner and CHITRESH JI is a recipient of the prestigious American National Heritage Fellowship.

INDIA JAZZ SUITES (also called Fastest Feet in Rhythm), featuring Pandit Chitresh Das and Jason Samuels Smith, is an explosive collaboration between one of India’s foremost Kathak masters and one of the world’s fastest, Emmy-award winning tap dancers. The result is high entertainment which crosses all boundaries of age, race and culture — a blast of incredible speed and power, grace and beauty, epic storytelling and the pure joy of dance.

After premiering in San Francisco in 2005, INDIA JAZZ SUITES has received extensive critical acclaim and has toured around the U.S. and India. It was chosen as the #1 Dance Performance of 2005 by the San Francisco Chronicle and won the prestigous Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Izzie) for Best Ensemble Performance of the year.