LUA HADAR with TWIST Cultural Diplomats for a New new age
Themission of LUA HADAR with TWIST is to promote world harmony through music.
Our repertoire and style, based on American jazz, draws also from international standards and songs about our common humanity. Reviewer Michael Arens, of Jazz Dimensions Germany, wrote recently: “She makes the other side of the world seem just a stone’s throw away…”
Lua’s style as a vocalist has been molded by cultural diplomacy experiences in places as diverse as Bali, Russia, Thailand, France, Switzerland, Japan, Hungary and Italy. Her love for The Great American Songbook, the soundtrack of her New York childhood, and her fascination with world cultures, influence the sophisticated song choices for her high-energy band, TWIST.
FRANCE: Lua Hadar peformed in concert with The French TWIST, and taught a master class for jazz singers, as part of a collaboration with the Ville de Lomme, Ecole Municipale de Musique et de Dance de Lomme, theater company Les Chantiers de L’Indédit de Lille, and the Musiconoclast’ Orchestra, under the direction of Albin Suffys. click here for video
THAILAND: Lua Hadar with TWIST make their international debut at the Bangkok 10th International Festival of Dance & Music in the 2000-seat Thailand Cultural Center
FRANCE: Lua performs a featured concert at the Swan Bar in Paris.
ITALY: Comedians without borders: Lua Hadar, co-founder of the comic girl trio "The Kitchenettes," brought the group to award-winning international distinction at the first Italian National Festival of Comic Song, "From the Shaman to the Showman," where they were the only Americans on the bill, and the only females.
ITALY: Five year performance residency and ongoing exchange relationship with Centro Culturale Teatro Camuno; performed in the Italian National Festival of Comic Song, on tour as Peter Pan, and cited in the new book Delitti e Canzoni (Delights and Songs) by Giacomelli, Canciani and Covri.
ITALY: "In Verona, she is well-known, well thought of, and remembered... she enchanted thousands of spectators, both old and young... Lua Hadar has returned to Italy after 10 years to debut in Breno, Brescia. The show, entitled 'The Languages of Love,"...demonstrates how much this artist has grown in experience and musical wisdom."
SPAIN: Performer in Barcelona's Cultural Olympics with the Italian production of "Verso Oz...all'orizzonte un Mondo Incantato" (Towards Oz... on the horizon an Enchanted World).
BALI: Studying mask dance with a Topeng Dance Master
SWITZERLAND: On tour with theatre production of Calvino’s Marcovaldo, produced by AIDA Centro Teatro di Verona
RUSSIA: On tour in Moscow with an exchange production of The Wizard of Oz
JAPAN: Delivered a presentation on Arts in Education at the Haki Festival of the Arts
HUNGARY: Prolific Hungarian painter, the late Lorant Chovan, created many images with Lua as the subject. www.lorantchovan.com
USA: Lua was honored to have been invited by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to sing the National Anthem at The Herbst Theatre in San Francisco for the Angel Island Centennial Event.
USA: Opened this June 3rd, 2009 peace vigil with John Lennon's "Imagine" in support of journalists being held in North Korea. (click picture to hear the full report)
USA: Lua sings at celebration for release of American journalists from North Korea at the Academy of Art University - NBC News (click picture to hear the full report)
