I will perform with Axis at Oakland City Hall, outdoor Plaza:

Oakland Celebrates Disability Awareness Month
Wed, October 17th @ 12:00pm
Oakland City Hall, outdoor Plaza
1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland
AXIS will perform excerpts from their repertory at this FREE Event

I will perform with Axis at Oakland ARTS Day
Fri, October 5th @ 5:00pm
Oakland City Hall, 3rd Floor
1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland
AXIS will perform excerpts from their repertory at this FREE Event
http://www.oaklandculturalarts.org/main/index.htm

View Lisa Bufano’s Museum School Profile on the SMFA website:
Alumni Profile: Lisa Bufano

I will perform with Axis at the opening dinner event of the 2007 Supported Life Institute Statewide Convention. Peformance at 7:00 p.m.

Details at www.supportedlife.org

Axis Dance Co Calendar

The complete video of the June 4, 2007 performance of Five Open Mouths in Washington D.C. is available to view online via the Kennedy Center archive:
Watch Five Open Mouths

The Millennium Stage and VSA arts presented Lisa Bufano performing Five Open Mouths with a screening of Phoenix Dance, a documentary chronicling the career of acclaimed dancer Homer Avilaa Homer.

My interview with Liz Walker aired on channel 4, May 27, 2007.

Watch it online

There is a postage stamp size picture of me in the June issue of Glamour magazine. Its on page 49, in the ‘Dos, don’ts, news & views section’

I moved to Oakland May 6 to work with Axis Dance Company.

Update: I found a place to live near Lake Merritt in Oakland. Thanks to all of you who emailed your suggestions and support.So far, california is treating me really well and ‘m having a great time getting to know the Axis extended community.

VSA Arts will present a Homer Avila film documentary and Lisa Bufano performing Five Open Mouths on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center. The event is part of the Start with the Arts Family Festival, a dynamic, month-long celebration of the arts featuring artists with disabilities.

more info on this event can be found at VSA website:
http://www.vsarts.org/x2102.xml

Learn about Five Open Mouths

Learn about Homer Avila

I’m currently engaged in the ‘Free to Rep Program’, a 3-week residency with Axis Dance Co. & 4 fantastic choreographers at The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreograph in Tallahassee, Fla. The choreographers, Isabel Croxatto/Isabel Croxatto+Abundanza (Chile), Shinichi Iova-Koga/Inkboat (CA), Alex Ketley/The Foundry (CA), and Kate Weare (NY), were selected to spend from 63 applicants interested in working with AXIS, the Oakland based physically integrated dance company, in a research laboratory environment as part of a pilot MANCC program entitled Free to Rep.

Read more on the Axis website:
http://www.axisdance.org/about_news.php

Learn About:
Kate Weare
Shinichi Iova-Koga
Alex Ketley
Isabel Croxatto