Next show: "MIZO" Japanese Butoh Dance
OAK GROVE THEATER presents an AMPERSAND ARTS production of “MIZU”, Japanese Butoh dance performed by the United States based dance company, SHOJORAKUDAVA, 7:30pm, Friday, September 10 and Saturday, September 11 at Oak Grove Theater, Verona, Va.
SHOJORAKUDAVA is in its second season and was founded by Staunton-born dancer Julia A. Vessey in coordination with Maro Akaji, the Tokyo-based Butoh master and founder of the world-renown dance company Dairakudakan. Butoh was started in Tokyo as an artistic reflection to the horrors of the two atomic bombs dropped in Japan during the Second World War. “MIZU”, a new piece by Ms. Vessey, is a utilization of the Butoh vocabulary learned through her studies under Maro Akaji and Dairakudakan.
MIZU (Japanese for water) is a piece first performed at the Kokubunji International Festival in Tokyo, Japan in the fall of 2009. The US debut of the piece will be a group performance with live music. The piece looks at the three states of water and their properties. Shojorakudava will both embody and describe the journey of water.
“MIZU”
7:30pm, Friday, Sept. 10 & Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010
OAK GROVE THEATER
845 Quick’s Mill Road (Rt 612)
Verona, Virginia
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Admission will be $10 per person, available at the door. Doors open at 6:30pm.