Explore Culture through Dance
Our Mission
We focus on creating dance performance experiences that cultivate a sense of belonging.
Creating movement languages for the gap words can’t fill.
OUR LATEST PROJECTS
NI DO TO (二度と) XR: An XR Pilgrimage is a transformative mixed-reality experience. It implores audiences to explore ancestral trauma, shared connection, and resilience through the narrative of Japanese American incarceration. Audiences will experience the work at the Ferst Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia. Interactive activities explore current and future solidarities with communities facing xenophobic policies.
Out of the Dust is told through ghosts of Manzanar Detention Camp who come to life through the poetry of Janice Mirikitani, the music of Miles Lassi and Paul Chihara, and the Japanese American folk dance “Ei Ja Nai Ka” (meaning “Ain’t it good?”) choreographed and composed by PJ Hirabayashi. After the closing of the camps, who and what memories were left behind in the windy dust-laden desert of Manzanar?
IKKAI means once: a transplanted pilgrimage is an evening-length immersive dance project choreographed by Yayoi Kambara. It weaves together modern dance, Japanese American (JA) obon folk dance (Bon-odori), and a musical score with taiko drums, guiding audiences through a first-person narrative exploring the unjust incarceration of JAs struggles for reparations and healing, and current/future solidarities with communities facing the violence of xenophobic policies
