By Julia Davidson Dancing with Anna. Being watched by the performers while I cry. Scooching around a space to see the action. Being asked what in the performance could…
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Ritual 4-6: ascent, to be performed at San Francisco City Hall on May 1 at 12noon Consider Ritual 4-6: ascent (or us) as a set of blocks that some big…
Shinichi on 95 Rituals: “Anna is the stone, the rock. This rock drops into the pool and we’re all the little ripples that move out from the impact of the rock…
A second work in progress of Without Us, performed in November 2013 at the Tenderloin National Forest. This 2nd experiment asks: what is the difference between ‘imposing upon’ and ‘blending…
SOUND | SILENCE | MOTION | STILLNESS “As a duo, Z and Iova-Koga displayed remarkable attunement, performing with unity of intent and deliberate, intoxicating command. It helps that their individual…
This Architectural Intervention Improvisation worked off of Sarah Oppenheimer’s exhibit in the Mills Art Museum. This is the third improvisation of Adams, Hanes, Iova-Koga November 7, 2014. (11 minute edit)…
Invited by Janice Ross at Stanford University, Shinichi presents a perspective on the Japanese Avant Garde dance popularly called Butoh.
Shinichi and Dana Iova-Koga in the brainstorming phase to develop a proposal from Danny Yung of Hong Kong. Theme: One table two chairs on stage. 20 minutes and two performers…
August 4, 2014 by Shinichi Iova-Koga Sitting now in the office of The Field in NYC after an intensive 3 weeks of Nohgaku training in Bloomsburg, PA, where I received…