KUNST-STOFF is a San Francisco-based dance-theater company that creates experimental and eclectic art forums under the artistic direction of Tomi Paasonen and Yannis Adoniou. The body of Kunst-Stoff consists of ten versatile dancers whose primary language is dance and movement. Their performances open a dialogue between visual artists, dancers, musicians, composers, writers, and filmmakers.

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KOICHI & HIROKO TAMANO are the directors of Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre. Former students of Tatsumi Hijikata, one of the original founders of Butoh, the Tamanos devotion to the mastery of dance is expressed through works that are at once beautiful, graceful, shocking and grotesque. Japan's famed author, Yukio Mishima, considered Koichi to have the most perfect body of all the dancers in Hijikata's studio. Harupin-Ha's captivating performances have been lauded by audiences worldwide.

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LHAGVA ULZIISAIKHAN & CHUNSRAIKHACHIN OTGONBAATAR are master Mongolian musicians. Uliziisaikhan is a throat singer and instrumentalist who performs on the morin huur (horse-headed fiddle) and ever buree (ox horn trumpet). He is a former member of the Mongolian National Tuman Ekh Ensemble and a delegate at the Throat Singers Symposium in Ulaanbaatar. Otgonbaatar performs on the yueqin (moon shaped lute).

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EDMUND WELLES: THE BASS CLARINET QUARTET is a modern chamber group lead by composer/arranger Cornelius Boots. This unique configuration of four bass clarinets is comprised of the Bay Area's most virtuosic clarinetists. From Satie to Sepultura, Edmund Welles' melodic, frenetic music is an exploration into the remarkable tone and range of this rarely featured instrument.

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