Movement Works: An Evening of Dance by Contemporary Japanese Choreographers

CRS & Dharma Road Productions, Inc. present an evening of new contemporary dance work by four Japanese choreographers, artists-in-residence Akiko Furukawa and Aya Shibahara, former staff member Rie Fukuzawa, and physical theatre artist Yuki Kawahisa (seen previously at CRS in her award-winning original solo theatre production The Kimono Loosened).

Akiko Furukawa will perform a radically re-worked version of her “Black Crow,” last presented in 2002 at the U.S.-Japan Encounter in Dance at Japan Society.

Aya Shibahara will premiere “Harmony,” a trio seeking the harmonies to be found amidst a cacophony of sounds made from non-musical instruments and everyday movements.

Also drawing on ideas explored by John Cage and Merce Cunningham, Rie Fukuzawa’s rhythmic “One Small Flat Room I” suggests that there is a power of being evoked even in the most abstract and “insignificant” movements.

Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “Deep In Earth,” Balinese dance, and her recent studies with Butoh artist Atsushi Takenouchi, Yuki Kawahisa will premiere “When moon is full, so big and so bright and I want to tell you how beautiful it is….”