Princess Cabbage

Mina Nishimura presents two distinct works inspired by Tatsumi Hijikata. In Princess Cabbage , fantastical and grotesque images from Hijikata’s biographical novel Sickened Primadonna are playfully transformed into movements, vocals, and facial expressions crystallizing in a single body like a kaleidoscope. Quiet House, Ash Daughter is a quartet that explores a nuanced, personal, and collective internal landscape using recomposed texts and images from Hijikata’s butoh score. As the audience sits in the center of the floor, performers surround them with an elusive, moving painting, looking to each other for a sense of sympathy and conspiration.