The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle/ ねじまき鳥クロニクル

Photo above is from final run-through Rehearsal at DUMBO.  

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル）is a multimedia theatrical production based on the international best-selling novel by Haruki Murakami, directed by Stephen Earnhart (formerly director of production for Miramax films).  The Asian premiere will be at Singapore Arts Festival, May 25 through 26, 2012.

Yuko Takahashi Dance Company Charity Performance

Photo above is from La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, May 17th, 2012
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A dance company from Sendai, Japan.
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Yozakura Nights

Above is Ikue, the bassist of the Suzan.
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at Japan Society

April 14, 2012
8-11 pm

Live Concert by pop-rocker Alex York, singing in Japanese and English, and New York City’s beloved riot-girl, garage punk band from Tokyo, The Suzan, followed by DJ Aki's mixing melodies at Hanami Lounge, as a part of J-CATION Festival.

A dancer in red

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A photo session with Mayuna Shimizu, a New York based dancer and choreographer.

Ailey Camp: Talent Show

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AileyCamp, the innovative full-scholarship summer day camp, created by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater launched in Newark, New Jersey for the first time this summer.  The camp gives 100 of the city’s 11- to 14-year-olds the chance to use dance to spark their creativity, build self-esteem and prepare for life.

More than 200 students applied for the 100 slots in the Newark program, which is free and presented in collaboration with Newark Public Schools and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. The campers were chosen for their enthusiasm and interest, not their dancing abilities.

The picture above is from a talent show, which is a preparation for their upcoming graduation showcase in August 10th at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC).

The Window Series

For Anybody who wants a good laugh.

Shannon Plumb: The Window Series
200 Lafayette Street (May 5 - June 3, 2011)

A WOMAN LEAVING

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A Woman Leaving, is a short film by Ron Patane, the collaboration with a ballet dancer, Rei Ichikawa
and New York based choreagrapher Mayuna Shimizu.

14th Annual Contemporary Dance Showcase, Japan + East Asia

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Japan Society’s annual Contemporary Dance Showcase is one of the most anticipated dance programs in New York, showcasing some of the very best dance from East Asia.

The lineup includes Tokyo choreographer Ryohei Kondo, founder of the popular all-male dance group Condors, Award-winning dancer and choreographer, and Maki Morishita, Seoul’s Ahn Ae-soon Dance Company performing Bul-ssang, a satiric take on Buddhist rituals fusing several forms of Asian traditional dance – including Indian kathak, Korean Jindo drum dancing and Chinese martial arts – with pop and street styles.

The event takes place on Friday, January 7th, and Saturday, January 8th, at 7:30pm at Japan Society, located at 333 E. 47th St.

Yoshi Oida's Interrogations: Words of the Zen Masters

October 8th, and 9th, 2010, 7:30 PM

SLIDESHOW available.

One-man play by the 77-year-old Paris-based actor, director and author Yoshi Oida, with live musical accompaniment by Berlin-based experimental musician Dieter Trüstedt, at  Japan Society of NYC.

A-C-E ONE: Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks

A-C-E ONE is a multidisciplinary site-specific spectacle that takes full advantage of the unique architectural features of LentSpace, which is located in a downtown New York City block between Canal, Varick, Grand, and Sixth Avenue. Dancers and musicians are positioned strategically throughout the space, a limousine moves at a glacial pace through a horticultural installation as performers move in and around a sea of shredded paper. Expect to be surprised.

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Hold the Clock

New York premiere of Hold the Clock, the latest installment of Yoshiko Chuma's ten-year project, Page Out of Order. Hold the Clock uses a combination of text, movement and media in a live installation to confront the personal and public histories of The School of Hard Knocks and its experience in Eastern Europe for the last 20 years.

Inspired by the writing of Japanese author Genichiro Takahashi, Hold the Clock continues Chuma's multi-year investigation of the aesthetic and philosophical questions and responses that arose during the revolutionary movements across the globe during the 60's and 70's. Takahashi was arrested as a student radical and spent half a year in prison.

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92nd st Y

An improvised photo-session for Yoshiko Chuma's upcoming show at 92nd street Y.

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“X2”- YOSHIKO CHUMA and SHIROTAMA HITSUJIYA

Human being freeze themselves into blocks of ice and seek the spark that will set them free again... 

(Photo top:  Yoshiko Chuma on the left, Shirotama Hitsujiya on the right, Photo bottom:  Shirotama as a "Japanese Bunny")

The two, active Japanese female performing artists, Yoshiko Chuma and Shirotama Hitsujiya, literally met on the street of NYC, and created a collaborative live performance,  "X2", which was performed at CRS (Center of Remembering and Sharing) in NYC, Jan 11th, 2009.

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Links:

Yoshiko Chuma:  Artistic director & Choreographer of  The School of Hard Knocks, USA and of Daghdha Dance Company, Ireland.

Shirotama Hitsujiya:  Artistic director & Choreographer of YUBIWA Hotel.