Idea, choregraphed and directed
by Yoshiko Chuma
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with guests from Aska Strings Project
Music by Mark Bennett, Robert Black, Robert
Een, Aska Kaneko and Hiroshi Yoshino
Costumes by Gabriel Berry
Performed by
Crash Orchestra: Robert Black (double
bass), Rocky Bornstein (dance), Yoshiko Chuma (dance), Simon Deacon (paino),
Robert Een (cello/dance), Nicky Paraiso (violin/piano)
Aska Strings Project: Aska Kaneko (violin),
Yayoi Tsukamoto (violin/viola), Hiroshi Yoshino (double bass)
Lights by Pat Dignan Technical
Director: David Herrigel |
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In Unfinished Symphony, the latest and biggest in a series of obstreperous
works featuring her “Crash Orchestra”, Yoshiko Chuma undermines the traditional
politeness governing the music-dance partnership, and rampages over the
reverence of musicians for their instruments.
The seven members of Crash Orchestra, five players
in Tokyo’s Aska Kaneko Strings Project, and six dancers billed as the Anarchy
Group dash around Danspace St. Mark’s if they were stealing bases in an
unfamiliar game. Order erupts from chaos. Chuma confronts the string players,
making passionate gestures that resemble no known conductor’s. All the
instrumentalists are playing different melodies; suddenly they’re in unison. |
The School of Hard Knocks [SOHK] is a collective of artists including
dancers, musicians, visual artists, media artists, theater technicians
and designers. The company has performed extensively in the US and in Europe
in works ranging from theatrical dance concerts to street performances
and to large scale performance art spectacles. In the course of the company’s
history, more than 1,000 people have performed under Yoshiko Chuma’s direction
in the US, Europe and Asia. Yoshiko Chuma has choreographed more than 40
works for the company and as commissions. |
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