Oashisu
Oashisu (2010) – Photo Gallery
“Provocative, intuitive, assured, smartly edited; their risky balances, flailing leaps and floor-grazing slides all seem to come crashing down in a glorious, bone-rattling thud.”
• See Video Excerpt (Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City, 2010)
• See Full Work (Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City, 2010)
• See Video Excerpt (Dance Place, Washington, DC, 2011)
• See Full Work (Dance Place, Washington, DC, 2011)
Oashisu is what happened while reuniting after a rough year when all were in need of a vacation from themselves and ready to connect to a place as free of habit as possible. The Japanese concepts of "ma" (a creative space in which the essence of artistic relationships are made tangible) and "kansha" (simultaneous gratitude and appreciation) provided the framework for this work of continual tectonic shifts, seismic surprises, and deep calm.
Conceived and Directed by • Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig
Choreographed with • Graham Brown, Lindsay Gilmour, Tzveta Kassabova, Betty Skeen
Original Music by • James Nyoraku Schlefer
Costumes by • Tzveta Kassabova
Video by • Sali Treek
Lighting by • Ariel Benjamin, Paul D. Jackson
Premiere • Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City, October 2010
Tour Highlights • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile • Sweet Briar College • Kennedy Center Millennium Stage • Bates Dance Festival • Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center • Dance Place, Washington, DC • Movement Research at the Judson Church
Funding • New York State Council on the Arts • American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program • O’Donnell Green Music and Dance Foundation • Jon Wiener • Friends of PWDT