Dennis Banks in Mary Sano's Dancing Dreaming Isadora

Dennis Banks, founder of the American Indian Movement, will join exquisite dancer-choreographer Mary Sano in a multicultural program that will feature works from Isadora Duncan's dance repertoire, Mary's original choreography, Shoko Hikage's dynamic koto playing, the songs and piano-playing of Tony Chapman as well as classical pianist Alpin Hong and Dennis Banks' Native American storytelling and drumming, 6 p. m. Sunday November 9 at Cowell Theater in San Francisco's Fort Mason Center in the Marina District. Tickets: $20 adv., $25 at the door ($18 for students). Boxoffice: (415) 345-7575; fortmason.org Information: (415) 357-1817; duncandance.org

Following up on her Mother Earth Event (last August with Dennis Banks and Tony Chapman) and her annual Dionysian and Terpsichorean celebrations in honor of Isadora Duncan, all at her Mary Sano Studio of Duncan Dance, Mary has envisioned a bigger, more ambitious performance, featuring the individual talents of these diverse artists and their joint collaboration, celebrating "Isadora's ... past, present and future." Collaboration between the arts, improvisation and innovation have often marked Mary's events, which have featured surprising juxtapositions and joint endeavors by artists of different disciplines and styles from very different places--very much in the spirit of Isadora herself, born not far from Mary's South of Market studio, who brought the origins of Modern Dance from San Francisco to the world, collaborating with the greatest musicians, visual and theatrical artists and poets to create a new, freer performing artistry that anticipated
an emancipated world of the arts and humanity.