PERFORMANCE

© John Taiken Atanacio
Collaboration with International Christian University / Modern Dance Society was funded by:

Good Bye
Premiere: July 19-25, 2021
JACK, BROOKLYN, USA
50 minutes
Choreographed and Performed by Kensaku Shinohara
Good Bye is a response to challenging socio-political questions I've formed over the last 11 years as a Japanese person living in NYC. Some of these are: Why don't people talk about racial discrimination when it is right in front of them? Why there is not a Asian Rights section at Strand Books when there is a Black Rights section? I see some heterosexual men say in public that they respect women, but when they are in private they use exploitive pornography, isn't this a contradiction of values?
Collaborators:
Cara Angela Liguori, Dorian Wallace, Carl Limbacher, Max Maples, Mei Yamanaka, Akiha Yamakami, Leah Morrison, Madeline Adelle Phillips, Larissa Asebedo, Magda Kaczmarska
Supported by:
92Y Harkness Dance Center AIR 2017-2018
Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant 2018
Exploring the Metropolis AIR 2018
Marble House Project AIR 2017
Showings:
Exploring the Metropolis, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, NYC (5/2/2018)
DraftWork, NYC (2/3/2018)
92Y Harkness Dance Center APAP, NYC (1/12-13/2018)
Movement Research at Judson Church, NYC (10/2/2017)
IIAC, Earthdance, MA (7/22/2017)
Marble House Project, VT (7/11/2017)
Annual Benefit Party, CPR, Brooklyn (4/3/2017)
Chez Bushwick WIP showing, Brooklyn (3/7/2017)
Informal showing at CPR, Brooklyn (1/7/2017)
5分鐘 - Wǔ Fēnzhōng (2018)
Premiered at International Christian University / September 18-20, 2018
Choreographer:
Kensaku Shinohara
In collaboration with
Seed Dance Company (Taiwan) - Dir: Wen-jen Huang
ICU Modern Dance Society (Japan) - Dir: Mana Yamagata
Process:
October 10-21, 2016
at Seed Dance (Pingtung) and Tainan University of Technology (Tainan)
[種子舞團(屏東), 台南科技大学(台南)]
January 25, 2016
at Seed Dance (Pingtung) [種子舞團(屏東)]