Takahiro Yamamoto: Direct Path to Detour

Exhibition Website

May 4 2017 - May 7 2017

Direct Path to Detour is a new dance work by Portland-based choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto. Grounded in the idea that a sense of who we are is rooted in our embodied experiences, this dance evokes mental and physical states at the intersection of value systems, social pressures, expectations, and personal experiences of four dancers, all of whom have an intimate relationship with bridging multiple societies by birth, residence, upbringing and/or religion. Direct Path to Detour envelops the performers in a poetic, visceral experience of resistance, surrender, sincerity, and fiction.

Performed by Julian Barnett, Ayako Kataoka, sidony o’neal, and Takahiro Yamamoto. Music composed by Jesse Mejía. Dramaturgy by Lu Yim. Costume design by Heather Treadway. Lighting design by Jeff Forbes.

Performances:

Thu May 4, 2017, 8:00 PM
Fri May 5, 2017, 8:00 PM
Sat May 6, 2017, 8:00 PM
Sun May 7, 2017, 3:00 PM

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website

  • Performance art
  • Contemporary
  • Takahiro Yamamoto
  • Julian Barnett
  • Ayako Kataoka
  • sidony o’neal
  • Jesse Mejía
  • Lu Yim
  • Heather Treadway
  • Jeff Forbes

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