The Invisible Dog Art Center is thrilled to present a project by choreographer Maho Ogawa, as part of Nafas, an exhibition and a festival celebrating the union between food and art.
The Japanese Gesture Archive - Tea Ceremony explores the relationships between individuality and formality through the Japanese Tea Ceremony. The gestures and elements in the Japanese Tea Ceremony will be remixed as choreographic material to recreate our current Tea Ceremony, assessing the meanings of each gesture and the act of offering and receiving.
It invites us to rediscover Japanese social aesthetics as social choreography through current multicultural lenses in New York.
Maho Ogawa is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary movement artist originally from Japan. She uses body movement, text instructions, and computer software to discover how relationships and the environment affect individual bodies consciously and subconsciously. Her works have been shown in Asia at Raft (Tokyo), Korea & Japan Dance Festival (Seoul), Za Koenji (Tokyo), Whenever Wherever Dance Festival (Tokyo), Tokyo Culture Creation Project (Tokyo), and at various NY venues including Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Domestic Performance Agency, The Hive Art Community, WhiteBox, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and New York University Grey Gallery. As a performer, she’s been fortunate to work with Athena Kokoronis, Mina Nishimura, Andrea Haenggi, Clarinda Mac Low, Ursula Eagly, and Abigail Levine. She holds an M.F.A. in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College.
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Carolyn Hall is a Brooklyn-based Bessie award winning dancer/performer, historical marine ecologist, and science communications instructor. Her current creative projects often combine all three into personal, interactive experiences that encourage reconnection to and awareness between people and their environments. She is often found exploring shorelines and hatching plans to make complex, data-rich issues around water, fish, and climate change more relatable and memorable through artistic and public engagement.
Ursula Eagly is a dance artist who has been based in New York City for over 20 years. Her works are characterized by a "rabbit-hole logic" (New York Times), and her research focuses on physical experiences that are not conventionally regarded as material for choreography: the autonomic, the psychosocial, the perceptual. A multi-faceted member of the NYC dance scene, Ursula is also active as a performer and a writer.
Tomoko Hojo is an artist working within the fluidity between sound, music and performance. Recently Hojo works on the theme that makes (women’s) silenced voices audible in the history, with a special focus on Japanese women who have relations to western countries, such as Yoko Ono, Sadayakko Kawakami. Recent solo exhibitions and concerts are Japanese Woman Experimental Sound Artists (Emily Harvey Foundation, NYC, 2022), Unearthed Tremor (Contemporary Art Center Aomori, 2021), Music From Japan Festival 2021 (Scandinavia House, NYC, 2021), Sotto Voce (TOKAS Hongo, Tokyo, 2019). She is a grantee of Overseas Study by Young Artists (The Pola Art Foundation, 2017), New York Fellowship (Asian Cultural Council, 2019).
Sayoko Kojima is a fashion/visual and movement artist originally from Japan. She has a B.A. in Fashion and Art. After moving to New York City, she trained in contemporary dance and worked for various artists. In 2020 she created Sayoko Creations: Reincarnating unwanted materials by hand, giving them a new life with a twist of humor, and showed her collections in fashion shows, magazines and exhibitions. From 2021, she started creating movement work: internal connection to the body and mind, moving the body through flowing energy, and performed in various shows. She has expanded her interest in visual arts and has exhibited her works.
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Annie Wang is a freelancer based in New York. She is a company member of Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group and Same As Sister. Her choreography has been presented by Five Myles, BRIC, the Center for Performance Research, the Exponential Festival, Pioneers Go East, WestFest Dance, and Triskelion. Annie is a 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence. She has also been Artist-In-Residence at Leimay Foundation, BRIC, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Marble House Project. She has been an awardee of the Brooklyn Arts Council grant and an invited Guest Teacher at Amherst and Smith colleges and at Emma Willard School.
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51 Bergen St.