Dragons are among humanity\u2019s most enduring obsessions.<\/p>\n
Buddha tamed a dragon. Saint George slew one. Irish mythology tells of an \u201capocalyptic beast\u201d that lies in wait in\u00a0Loch Bel Dracon\u00a0to avenge the death of John the Baptist. The Sumerians, Greeks, Babylonians, Norse, Native Americans and Assyrians all had dragons \u2014 in addition to the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans. Some hunt children, while others take the form of donkeys. Some live in lakes, while others live in sparkling palaces.<\/p>\n
In \u201cDragon\u2019s Night: Dusk of the Swollen Sun,\u201d produced by Tiny Fest and Embodiment Project at Bandaloop Studios in West Oakland, the globe\u2019s various dragon myths commingle in an evening of dance, video art, music, poetry and immersive performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nicole Klaymoon\u2019s hourlong \u201cDusk of the Swollen Sun\u201d is the program\u2019s centerpiece, exploring through movement Saul Williams\u2019 notion of artists as death\u00a0doulas\u00a0who can help guide us out of fascism and imperialism and into what\u2019s beyond.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dragons are among humanity\u2019s most enduring obsessions. Buddha tamed a dragon. Saint George slew one. Irish mythology tells…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[329,7,1472,35717,332,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-357851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-california","tag-dance","tag-datebook-pick","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}