Slanty Eyed Mama

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Slanty Eyed Mama have been on the forefront of Asian American counterculture since early 2002. 2 asian girls, classically trained and gone badassed. Joining creative forces Lady K (Kate Rigg) a poet/comedian/actor and Lyris Hung Slanty eyed mama was formed to find a voice for generasian-next. Cyber butoh Sato brings japanese modern traditional funk to the stage in eye popping dance arias.

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Slanty Eyed Mama have rocked at The Black and Blue Ball in New York, the A/PI Heritage Fest in Union Square Park NYC, The Women In Performance Conference in Toronto, NPN's conference in LA, the Asian American Jazz Fest In Chicago, Michigan Womyn's Music Fest, LA Grand Performances at California Plaza, the Perth International Festival, he Philadelphia Inernational Fringe Fest, and clubs all over the country. Their work is featured in the PBS documentary Race is the Place, representin' for contemporary funky urban asians.



------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "At full throttle an Urban machine" SF Chronicle; "Hello Kitty on Pharmaceuticals" Backstage magazine; "Ranging from cinematic forays into our media-saturated, consumer-driven, pop-cultural, wreckage-strewn landscape to simple almost balladlike evocations of longing, each poem was a sonic sculpture that easily transcended its particulars.

Anchorage Daily News



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Our new show is "Americasiana" where we are premiereing new songs and new video/dance on the theme of the american dream-- slanty eyed mama style. Electric Violin, searing spoken word, and wild cyber butoh dance from Sato.