BAD UNKL SISTA - Key Persons
Amy LeBlanc joined Bad Unkl Sista in San Francisco sometime around 2005 after a lifetime of being an informal dancer and reluctant performance artist. The art of butoh, with its focus on stillness, breath, fully embodied movement, and emotional investigation of the sublime moments of birth, life and death is a physical extension of her intellectual and philosophical work on consciousness, meaning, and art as a social practice and political expressive form.
Amy currently lives in Brooklyn, New York and has a Masters Degree from the School of Visual Arts in Critical Theory and the Arts.
Job Titles:
- Artistic Director
- Director
Gala Aranaga began classical piano training at eight years old, quickly developing a unique combination of percussive technique, expressive depth and harmonic conception. Over the years she has continued to integrate a variety of sounds into her performance arsenal including handpans (Hang/Halo), duduk, percussion and Tuvan throat singing, enabling the creation of dynamic sonic tapestries of tones and textures.
As music director for Bad Unkl Sista, Gala composes and performs original music and sound design for live presentations. With academic studies and professional experience spanning music performance, composition, conducting, film directing, music engineering, and over twenty years of cross-media production expertise, what brings it together is her relentless passion for collaboration, communication and creativity-and the potential for dialogue and transformation between artist and audience.