Events
Performance
04/01/2017
- 03/31/2018
New York (NY) and more
PAJ: 2017 COLLABORATION GRANT
ANIKAYA/Akhra, Inc. / Delicateness in Times of Brutality
Photo: Olivia Huang
| Project Summary | An intensive collaboration with ANIKAYA artistic director Wendy Jehlen and Dakei Shizuku, an accomplished deaf butoh artist based in Tokyo. |
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| Principal Artist | Dakei Shizuku, Wendy Jehlen |
| Tour Location | Rakudo-An (Tokyo, Japan)
Studio @ 550 (Cambridge, MA) |
Baryshnikov Arts Center / Darkness Odyssey Part 2: I or Hallucination
| Project Summary | A series of dances developed by Kota Yamazaki, aims to harmoniously combine the dance, philosophy, and folklore around Goze music (or music of blind women) in order to reveal the unknown universe of the body and to portray interbeingness of different perspectives in unconventional way, through significantly different bodies of four acomplished dance artists. |
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| Principal Artist | Kota Yamazaki, Kenta Nagai, Thomas Dunn, Julian Barnett, Raja Kelly, Joanna Kotze, Mina Nishimura |
| Tour Location | Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography(Tallahassee, FL)
Baryshnikov Arts Center (New York, NY) New York Live Arts (New York, NY) |
Dallas Black Dance Theatre / In the Sea of Heaven
Photo:Fermaint Photography
| Project Summary | A collaboration with Japanese choreographer Takehiro Ueyama and Dallas Black Dance Theatre to create a new work for its second professional performing company DBDT: Encore! During the organization’s 41st season in 2017-2018. |
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| Principal Artist | Takehiro Ueyama, Nycole Ray |
| Tour Location | DBDT Studios (Dallas, TX)
Moody Performance Hall (Dallas, TX) |
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club / Distant Observer: New York / Tokyo Correspondence
Photo:Paula Court
| Project Summary | A collaboration between Japanese playwright/director Takeshi Kawamura and American plawright/director John Jesurun. Inspired by the traditional Japanese collaborative poetry style Renga, the two renowned artists will both write and direct a play in collaborative partnership. |
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| Principal Artist | John Jesurun, Takeshi Kawamura |
| Tour Location | The Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa (New York, NY) |
Ripe Time, Inc / Sleep
Photo:Max Gordon
| Project Summary | A new immersive physical theater work that traces the distance between what we appear to be and what we are, inspired by Haruki Murakami’s shattering 1994 short story, Japanese Hannya myths and horror films. |
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| Principal Artist | Rachel Dickstein, Nozomi Iizuka, Takemi Kitamura, Saori Tsukada, Akiko Aizawa |
| Tour Location | Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
BAM-Fisher (Brooklyn, NY) Iseman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre (New Haven, CT) |
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