biography mp3 music download japanese culture japan atsuko yuma productions

			Atsuko Yuma Singer, Dancer, Composer
			YUMA'S PERFORMING EXPERIENCE THEATER Public Theater Avery Fisher Hall La Mama, etc. The Jazz Gallery The Asia Society Lincoln Center Library (Auditorium) Jazz Center of New York Kampo Cultural Center Tenri Cultural Institute of NY Inroads United Nations The New York Coliseum Paul Robeson Cultural Center International House Auditorium Sound Scape Beacon Theater NIGHTCLUBS Tavern on the Green Jazz Mania Society Copacabana Mudd Club Tramps Leviticus International Bitter End New York, New York The Living Room Callback Cabaret Palladium Apollo Theater The Knitting Factory Nell's TELEVISION The Joe Franklin Show/Channel 9 MTV CNN "Show Bis" Regular on World Culture Workshop, Channel 34 RECORDING With Laurie Anderson, Warner Bros. Records With Bill Laswell, Sony Records, Japan With Ronnie N. Seldin, Columbia Sony TRAVELING Japanese Folk Festival, Japan Culture and Peace Events, North Korea Peace Concert, Ecuador CHURCHES St. Peters Church Cathedral of St. John the Divine Trinity Church Washington Square Church Riverside Church MUSEUMS Metropolitan Museum of Art Islip Art Museum Alternative Museum Museum of Natural History Museum of the City of New York Children's Museum of Manhattan Brooklyn Children's Museum OUTDOORS/PARKS Lincoln Center Damrosch Park Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Bronx Botanic Gardens Central Park Bandshell 42nd Street Bus Terminal Longwood Garden, PA SCHOOL PERFORMANCES Pennsylvania State University (PENN) NYU Hunter College Stuyvesant High School Lindenhurt Senior & High School The New School Third Street Music School And 20 years of performing at many elementary, junior high & high schools Yuma also performs Japanese Music & Dance at many hospitals and seniors houses, through Hospital Audiences. Aug 05 Performed in Riverside Church for Hiroshima¹s day Peace Event Oct 04 Performed in Japanese High School in Japan Sep 04 Multe-media Performance at Woodstock Museum. N.Y.C. Aug 04 Performed in Ecuador Sep 03 Multe-media Performance at Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in N.Y.C. Jul 02 Performed at The Wood Stock Museum. N.Y.C. Jun 02 Atsuko Yuma & her friends to perform at The Tenri Cultural Institute of N.Y. in self produced show entitled ³Music of Love and Harmony². May 02 Produced own CD entitled ³Mother Tsuru³. Oct 01 Yuma & her company performed at The N.Y.Botanical Garden. May 01 Produced own CD entitled ³Peace Project³. Jul 98 Yuma and her band performed at The Knitting Factory,N.Y.C. ‘97 - 1999 Appeared regularly on Time Warner’s "World Culture Workshop" NYC Channel # 34 Aug ‘97 Appeared on MTV’s Oddville Show Aug ‘97 Appeared on CNN’s "Show Biz" Jul ‘97 Yuma & Culture Exchange at Le Bar Bat in NYC Jun ‘96 Recorded Japanese Lullaby with Ronnie N. Seldin for Columbia Records Jan ‘96 Eric & Mary Ross’s multi-media performance at Binghamton, NY April ‘95 Pyongyang International Sports & Cultural for Peace in North Korea Nov ‘94 Yuma & Culture Exchange at Nell’s in NYC Oct ‘94 Yuma & Culture Exchange at The Bitter End in NYC April ‘94 Recorded own CD, "Dreamer" produced by Image Box in Japan Jun ‘93 "Yosakoi Soran Festival" In Sapporo City, Japan Mar ‘93 Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC Aug ‘92 Sang an original composition called "Song for Peace" at United Nations NYC May ‘91 Sang with Ronnie N. Seldin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC Jan ‘91 Appeared on the Joe Franklin T.V. Show, Channel 9 April ‘90 Sang Japanese Children’s Songs at the New York Children’s Museum NYC Jun ‘90 Yuma: " I hear Something", The Knitting Factory NYC May '87 Performed Japanese Drum Dance at the Palladium in NYC Feb ‘86 Established the Hibiki Performing Arts Group, a-non-for-profit organization Nov ‘84 Atsuko Yuma: Provision of Earth, Jazz Center in NYC June ‘84 Recorded w/ Laurie Anderson for Warner Bros. Records in USA Mar ‘84 Recorded w/ Bill Laswell & Genji Sawai, CBS Sony in Japan Jun ‘82 "Kool Jazz Festival," w/ Karl Berger’s Music Universe Orchestra, Lincoln Center Avery Fisher Hall in NYC Sept ‘81 "Woodstock Jazz Festival" w/ Nana Vasconcelos’s Band Jun ‘80 "Women’s Jazz Festival" at Lincoln Center in NYC July ‘79 Don Cherry’s Dream Band at the Public Theater in NYC July ’79 Atsko Yuma: Original play "Mother Tsuru" at La Mama Annex in NYC Since 1980 Atsuko Yuma has been performing Japanese Music and Dance through HAI (Hospital Audiences Inc.) At Hospitals, Schools and Senior Houses.
	"The Thought of Eternal Life"
	Yuma's music and dance is a combination of not only East and Western culture, but more of a gathering of Universal expressions. In these pieces, Yuma presents the concepts of nature and the elements as personal gifts that are given freely by God for us to pass along without the clutter of the ego.