Thursday, August 12, 2004

And this weeks' Bay Guardian Wank of the Week-

Hey kids, there's a Butoh performance going on! Pretty exciting stuff, ain't it?

Anyways, here's a review of it!

.Remarkable return:
inkBoat build on their success with Ame to Ame (Candy and Rain) at Yerba Buena Center.


By Robert Avila

YUKO KASEKI AND Shinichi Momo Koga, the Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire of Butoh, come together in inkBoat's Ame to Ame (Candy and Rain) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The duet marks a return of sorts. Berkeley-based inkBoat's choreographer-dancer Koga, founder of the 10-year-old dance-theater company, was 2002's Wattis artist in residence at Yerba Buena Center. This relationship culminated in November of that year with Onion, a remarkably ambitious and memorable premiere that seemed to fuse Butoh and Beckett into a compellingly original theatrical pantomime. Onion, which featured Berlin-based choreographer-dancer Kaseki and Koga, enjoyed much too brief a run at the time, though it went on to tour the United States and Europe.

God, I don't know why a performance that fuses "Butoh and Beckett into a compellingly original theatrical pantomime" wouldn't have a long, lengthy run. Figured something like that would have some sort of "Cats" like run.

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