Good Bye 2018 | kensaku-shinohara

Good Bye

Choreographed and Performed by Kensaku Shinohara

//////2022 Production//////July 29-30, 2022//////

JACK, NYC

Choreographic Assistant: sam wentz

Sound Design: Dylan Marx, Zaq Kenefick

Lighting Design: Claire Chrzan

Costume: Misuzu Hara

Advisor: Dimitri Chamblas, Allison Yasukawa

//////2017-2018 Production//////

Collaborators:

Larissa Asebedo (performer)

Magda Kaczmarska (sound support)

Cara Angela Liguori (advisor)

Car Limbacher (bassist)

Max Maples (drummer)

Leah Morrison (performer)

Dorian Wallace (composer)

Akiha Yamakami (sculptor)

Mei Yamanaka (performer)

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?

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Showings:

François Ghebaly, LA (9/3/2022)

JACK, NYC (7/29-30/2022)

Feeler Gauge Festival, LA (4/5-5/31/2021)

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)

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This project is 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

Exploring the Metropolis is grateful to the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation for their support of the EtM Choreographer + Composer Residencies in Partnership with the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

This work is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

This work is made possible (in part) by Harkness Dance Center's Artist in Residence Program at 92Y.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Good Bye