NAJC Redress 2008 registration form.pdfDates: Friday September 19, 2008
Location/Time: 6:30 pm, Sunrise Market
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Photo Credits (from the top to bottom) Studio shot by Peter Eastwood, photo from Bagpipe Butoh by Chris Randle, photo from Dance of the Dead by Laurence M Svirchev, photo from ( ) by Pascal Provost. Ghosts, featuring twelve dancers, three bagpipers, one drummer, and a wealth of inspiration. Ghosts pays homage to the incarnations and past inhabitants of the Powell Street area. The titular ghosts are Japanese Canadian, as well as the ghosts of all immigrants, of lives past, and of the thousands who have lived in the Downtown Eastside. Performed on the rooftop of Sunrise Market -adjacent to a building where Japanese Canadians registered for internment in the heart of old Japantown -Ghosts is co-commissioned by the Dancing on the Edge Festival, the Powell Street Festival, and the National Association of Japanese Canadians.
History: Kokoro Dance produced a sixty-minute piece titled Rage, in 1987, which was concerned with the repercussions of the internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians, during and after World War II. The work drew standing ovations at the Asia Pacific. Rage was later developed for school programs, re-named The Believer, and with a cast of three, toured Toronto and Vancouver public schools in 1995. The new work is expected to revisit this history.
The Vancouver-based Kokoro Dance has as its mandate to re-define the meaning of Canadian culture through teaching, producing and performing new dance theatre with an emphasis on multi-disciplinary collaboration and cross cultural exploration. The Japanese word, kokoro, meaning heart, soul and spirit, Kokoro Dance creates deeply evocative and provocative performances inspired by the Japanese modern dance form known as butoh, fusing the aesthetics of the East and the West. The company has performed across Canada, in the United States, and in Europe.
Kokoro Dance www.kokoro.ca
Dancing on the Edge www.dancingontheedge.org
Powell Street Festival Society www.powellstreetfestival.com
Sunrise Soya Foods
http://www.petestofu.com/history.htm
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History: Kokoro Dance produced a sixty-minute piece titled Rage, in 1987, which was concerned with the repercussions of the internment of Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians, during and after World War II. The work drew standing ovations at the Asia Pacific. Rage was later developed for school programs, re-named The Believer, and with a cast of three, toured Toronto and Vancouver public schools in 1995. The new work is expected to revisit this history.
The Vancouver-based Kokoro Dance has as its mandate to re-define the meaning of Canadian culture through teaching, producing and performing new dance theatre with an emphasis on multi-disciplinary collaboration and cross cultural exploration. The Japanese word, kokoro, meaning heart, soul and spirit, Kokoro Dance creates deeply evocative and provocative performances inspired by the Japanese modern dance form known as butoh, fusing the aesthetics of the East and the West. The company has performed across Canada, in the United States, and in Europe.
Kokoro Dance www.kokoro.ca
Dancing on the Edge www.dancingontheedge.org
Powell Street Festival Society www.powellstreetfestival.com
Sunrise Soya Foods
http://www.petestofu.com/history.htm
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