A Women’s Solo Performance Series

The Asian American Writers’ Workshop presents A Women’s Solo Performance Series featuring Denise Uyehara, Maura Donahue and Dawn Akemi Saito.

Thursday, May 29, 2003: Denise Uyehara
Big Head is an interdisciplinary work that links the memory of the World War II internment of Japanese Americans with the present-day treatment of those suspected of being “the enemy”. Inspired by voices from members of the Arab American, Muslim and South Asian American communities, and letters Uyehara’s great uncle composed in 1942 while incarcerated at Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas.

Friday, May 30, 2003: Maura Donahue
SKINning the surFACE?SOLO uses the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act between Vietnam and the U.S. as a springboard into a heated exploration of the bi-racial body and its personal and political repercussions. The work
combines original text, as well as passages from Thomas Bass’ Vietnamerica and Ho Chi Minh’s Poems from a
prison diary, with various lullabies from around the world, striking multimedia images and an athletic combination of traditional Asian and contemporary movement forms.

Saturday, May 31, 2003: Dawn Akemi Saito
Blood Cherries is a solo theater piece woven from text, Butoh dance, music and visual imagery in which a woman sets off on a fantastical journey into memory and the imagination in search of the spirit that has left the body of her dying father. Closing night wine reception follows.