Conceptualized by composer and artistic director Lenny Seidman, ARC is an original evening length performance suite presented at Swarthmore College on October 5th that brings together the drumming traditions of tabla from North India and taiko from Japan, with contemporary Western, African Diasporic, and Southeast Asian dance. The cast consists of three tabla players, Lenny Seidman, Jonathan Marmor, and Daniel Scholnick, three taiko players, Joe Small, Isaku Kageyama and Kristy Oshiro, and three choreographers/dancers, Laurel Jenkins, Ani Gavino and Orlando Hunter. ARC has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.