AIS Parent Composes Music for Festival Film
AIS parent Steve Dancz (Nicole, Grade 8), an accomplished composer, pianist and professor of music at the University of Georgia (where he is director of the Jazz Studies Program and the new UGA Music Business Program) will have his work featured in a film appearing at the Atlanta Film Festival in April.
Steve's film, The Sacred Sights of the Dalai Lamas, is a fascinating journey that explores the caves where the early Buddhist masters meditated, enters the monasteries where the Dalai Lamas and others taught, and, at an altitude of over 16,000 feet, looks down into the famous oracle lake of Lhamo Lhatso where every Dalai Lama has had prophetic visions. Your guides are Steve Dancz (also a composer for National Geographic), Glenn Mullin (author of over 25 books on Tibetan Buddhism) and Khenpo Tashi (a Bhutanese monk and international teacher) as they visit the sacred sites: Potala, Jokhang, Drepung Monastery, Nechung, Drak Yerpa Valley, the Caves of Songsten Gampo, Jowo Atisha, and Guru Rinpoche, Samye Monastery, Lambhu Lagang Castle, Ani Sanku Nunnery, Lama Tsongkhapa Meditation Cave, Tranduk, Kangyur Stupa, Terdak Lingpa, Tashi Lumpo, Champa Zhishi, Sakya, Chokhor Gyal, Milarepa's Cave, in addition to The Oracle Lake.
The movie will be shown at 5:15 on April 22, and again at 12:30 on April 25 at the Landmark Midtown Arts Cinema, 931 Monroe Drive, Atlanta, GA 30308. Don't miss this opportunity to see the visually stunning film accompanied by Steve's powerful, moving soundtrack.