Last weekend we had the good fortune of getting to work with Ralph Lemon during our rehearsal process for Line Between. Shinichi has been one of three mentees working with…
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On inkBoat’s facebook page I noticed that a recommendation on the right hand side to like the PJ Harvey and Sigur Ros pages, since inkBoat fans like them.
InkBoat has the best fans, I thought to myself.
Listen to linebetween radio to hear our favorites from these artists (I’m into second albums usually: Ágætis byrjun and Rid of Me), and don’t be surprised if you hear those influences in the soundscapes of the show. The atmosphere we’re creating can be easily read as Your Subconscious Iceland, and the gestures so small, so intimate, that you lean forward straining to hear the whisper.
And then your hair blows back.
Dana was very kind, but wasn’t exactly convinced this source material could find its way into the Line Between: After weeks (months?) of adaptation, Shin and Dohee showed a version…
And to this day I’m not sure it didn’t happen. During an improvisation where Jason and I were layering a small, dark sonic background against Shin and Dohee’s movement, Dana…
“Line Between” began as an extended conversation between Dohee and Shinichi about the space between waking and dreaming. The two noticed how often the subject of dreams and their connection…
November 2009, New York City We meet in the studio because this is one of those rare places- in which we can dis-assemble and re-assemble meaning and still come out…
My farming instructor and dance teacher are one and the same—Min Tanaka. Min has encouraged me to regard farming as both physical and mental training, similar to that of a…
If I go into nature, that is inspiring to me, it elevates me and gives me the strength to continue with the life struggle, but I do not put the…
Jenny Schaffer talks with Shinichi Iova-Koga about how Action Theater has influenced his work.
Email Interview with Paul Roquet Paul Roquet: What interests me still about Butoh is the use of an array of techniques to thwart all attempts at intellectual interpretation. The grotesque,…