Workshop: The Language of Tabla

"The Language of Tabla" introduces participants to the foundations of tabla. The workshop features an interactive component of both recitations, and clapping, patting, and stomping rhythms. This program is led by resident artist, Krissy Bergmark.

This free two-hour workshop is suited for all ages and is inclusive of all physical and linguistic abilities. To learn more, send a message at info@mandalaaarts.org.

About the teaching artist, Krissy Bergmark: 

Krissy Bergmark is a tabla player, percussionist, composer, and educator. Bergmark centers her creative work on bringing tabla to new genres and cross-genres through composition and performance. She has received commissions and grants through the Cedar Commissions, the Jerome Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Minnesota State Arts Board for her tabla studies and compositions for tabla, percussion, and strings. She attended the International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity in 2018, and Silkroad Ensemble’s Global Musician Workshop in 2016. She composes and performs with her progressive folk trio Sprig of That, experimental duo Lo.mocean, and a variety of other artists in Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Chicago, and New York. Krissy is a 2010 graduate of Northern Illinois University and a 2012 graduate of the University of Minnesota. She is an Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Gustavus Adolphus College. She studies tabla with Pandit Yogesh Samsi.