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ENCOUNTER, PULL & ARCHIPELAGO: Islands of Land, Water and Legend
ENCOUNTER
Navarasa Dance Theater
This performance explores the different kinds of encounters in contemporary human life: encounter of the human soul with the divine, encounter with self, encounter with lover, encounter with gravity, and encounter with the military.
"modern dance, Indian martial arts, aerial dance, Bollywood's pop influencesall with an eye for originality and a skillful use of space, sending dancers into eye catching floor patterns."--Boston Globe
PULL
Kennedy Kabasares & Traci Kato-Kiriyama
This performance incorporates monologues, recorded interviews, and aerial arts to tell stories of people's obsessions, from the mundane to the supernatural. PULL examines the effects they have on people's lives and relationships. When do we pull them back?
Archipelago: Islands of Land, Water and Legend
Denise Uyehara
Archipelago: Islands of Land, Water and Legend is a new multi-disciplinary work directed and performed by Denise Uyehara in collaboration with video artist Adam Cooper-Terán, with appearances by Natalie Brewster Nguyen and Marcos Najera.
Through a nexus of video, monologue, music and ritual, Archipelago remixes ancient origin myths of Okinawa (Japan's southern-most islands) and Native people of the American Southwest, situating them in contemporary times.
Archipelago harnesses the cultural resonance found on "islands" islands situated in the desert and islands found in the ocean. It investigates the metaphor of water that winds through early origin stories, citing narrative, iconography and deities from Ryukyu kingdom and various tribes of the American Southwest -- the Yaqui, Navajo, Huichol, and Tohono O'odham nations. The performance also sheds light on how these cultures have survived as islands -- geographic or metaphoric in nature in the midst of colonization from surrounding forces. Hailing from mixed heritage identities (Uyehara is of Okinwan and Japanese lineage, Cooper-Teran a Chicano-Russian of Yaqui decent), Archipelago sheds light on issues of authenticity, appropriation and the recreation of myth for cultural survival.
Archipelago is currently in development with support from the NPN Creation Fund and premieres in its entirety at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica in February 2012, and subsequently at Dinnerware Artspace in Tucson.
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LocationInner City Arts
720 Kohler Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90021
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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