PERFORMANCE

Good Bye

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Premiere: July 19-25, 2021

JACK, BROOKLYN, USA

50 minutes

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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?   

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Collaborators:

Cara Angela Liguori, Dorian Wallace, Carl Limbacher, Max Maples, Mei Yamanaka, Akiha Yamakami, Leah Morrison, Madeline Adelle Phillips, Larissa Asebedo, Magda Kaczmarska

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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

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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) 

©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. 

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Choreographed by

Kensaku Shinohara in collaboration with Gabrielle Revlock

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Collaborator 2018

Masanobu Asahara and Larissa Asebedo

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Collaborator 2015

Gabrielle Revlock, Yuki Nishiyama and Yuki Nakano

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Dance Introduction Series, 92Y (NYC, 2018)

Yokohama Dance Collection EX I (Yokohama Premiere, 2015)

Whenever Wherever Festival (Tokyo, 2015)

CRUSHED MUFFINS (NYC, 2014)

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This work was made possible with the generous support by Ms. Sumie Yonei and campaign donors.

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