8:00 pm
Holden Theater, Amherst College
$12-general public; $8-low income patrons/seniors; $5 students with valid I.D.

Parang Sabil is the legendary ballad of the Tausug people of the southern Philippines. This story of resistance, dignity and courage portrays the struggle against U.S. military occupation and commemorates the massacre of indigenous Muslim people in 1906. Kinding Sindaw's multimedia dance-theater production, conceived and choreographed by Potri Ranka Manis and directed by Andrea Assaf, juxtaposes Tausug dance, music, martial arts, and epic storytelling with Mark Twain's satirical anti-imperialist writings. Experience the circularity of time and collision of cultures; encounter tradition and resistance in new ways; and understand the indigenous as contemporary in this postmodern retelling of an ancient tale. www.kindingsindaw.org