PERFORMANCE
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)
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©Yoichi Tsukada
playtime (2015)
playtime is a structured improvisation in collaboration with Gabrielle Revlock, where different choreographers take turns directing a cast of artists. As the piece progresses the choreographers become performers and everyone becomes a director.
Choreographed by
Kensaku Shinohara in collaboration with Gabrielle Revlock
Collaborator 2018
Masanobu Asahara and Larissa Asebedo
Collaborator 2015
Gabrielle Revlock, Yuki Nishiyama and Yuki Nakano
Dance Introduction Series, 92Y (NYC, 2018)
Yokohama Dance Collection EX I (Yokohama Premiere, 2015)
Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo, 2015)
CRUSHED MUFFINS (NYC, 2014)
This work was made possible with the generous support by Ms. Sumie Yonei and campaign donors.