Performances

July 26, 2026 @ 8:30pm

Runtime: 60 minutes

Mabou Mines
150 First Avenue (Second Floor), NYC 10009

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Yoshiko Chuma was shaped by her childhood in Japan in the 1960s. She participated in demonstrations and protests as a young adult during the Vietnam War and characterizes herself as a ‘silent agitator’. This work that she describes as the “Snowball” series is a project addressing the pre-defined cultural imperatives that shape individual identity and codes of conduct. It relies on a fundamental structure that serves as a metaphor for the relationship between culture and the individual. With each performance, new elements or dancers are added, allowing the work to gradually accumulate a multicultural cast and aesthetic. In another one of her “choreographed chaos” performances, the stimulating experience of the “Testimony of the School of Hard Knocks” always arrives as a sudden encounter. It involves a paradoxical form that sparks inspiration, and the concept of “π = 3.14,”