I, Ghost, The Other(self), or You (2022) with Mina Nishimura

Presented by Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

Performed by Mina Nishimura and Kota Yamazaki,
Music Composed by Kenta Nagai
Photos by Jamie Kraus

The work was developed through creative residencies at MANCC (Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography) at Florida State University and a work-in-progress presentation at DaBY (Dance Base Yokohama) in Japan.

ABOUT

This intimate and quiet duet re-imagines an abandoned, forgotten, aging or marginalized body while deepening and rigorously pursuing weather-like, inner energy-based movement practice, which reflects Japanese Zen philosophy about the self as “no-self” or as “fluid being. “ Through channeling to those beings that wander through spaces between life and death, light and darkness, physical and metaphysical, and “this” and “that” world, the work attempts to reveal the depth and richness of undefinable in-between spaces, and the fluid and un-categorizable nature of being.