Please be advised that this event has been re-scheduled from its
originally announced dates.
Kota Yamazaki and Mina Nishimura, whose work is strongly rooted
in butoh, a form of Japanese dance theatre, are choreographing
“Every-Body, No-Body” for the UC Davis Department of Theatre and
Dance in the College of Letters and Science. Yamazaki and
Nishimura are the Granada Artists-in-Residence for fall quarter.
The new work features graduate and undergraduate students as the
performers.
The performances Thursday through Saturday, Dec. 6 through 8 at 7
p.m. with a 2 p.m. performance on Dec. 8 are in the Main
Theatre of Wright Hall.
“’Every-Body, No-Body’ is a slippery and elusive journey
that explores a relationship between ‘my bone’ and insubstantial
‘I,’ while dealing with friction and tension between Body as
object and every-changing ‘I’-ness,” Nishimura said.
Yamazaki studied under Akira Kasai, one of the pioneers of
butoh. His Tokyo-based dance group Rosy Co., founded in 1996, has
performed nationally and internationally at theaters and
festivals throughout Asia, Europe and the United States.
Nishimura studied butoh and improvisational dance with
Yamazaki while also studying at the Merce Cunningham
Studio. She has performed internationally in works by
choreographers such as John Jasperse, Dean Moss, Rashaun Mitchell
+ Silas Riener, Vicky Shick, Nami Yamamoto, Ursula Eagly and
Ellen Fisher.
Tickets are $10, $9 for faculty/staff and $7 for students/seniors
and are available online at theatredance.ucdavis.edu or at the UC
Davis Athletics Ticket Office, on the north side of Aggie
Stadium, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, or by phone
(530) 752-2471 during the same hours.
Two acclaimed butoh performers Kota Yamazaki and Mina
Nishimura have returned to UC Davis to create the choreography
for “Every-Body, No-Body,” scheduled for Dec. 6 through
8. The original work features graduate and
undergraduate dancers/performers. Our photographer, Justin Han,
recently attended a rehearsal to capture the work in development.
All photographs by Justin Han, copyright UC Regents
